Re: Apache directive syntax

On 12/11/2018 4:45 AM, Rob Dixon wrote:

Many thanks. The URI that is displayed on the second screen with error 404
Not Found is QSYS.LIB/E310PRDOBJ.LIB/E31RPP.PGM/081780681744383/ - with a /
at the end. Under V5R1 using original HTTP server, this is what I also get
and that has worked for many years. 081780 is the job number and 681744383
is the remainder of the session ID. I imagine, perhaps naively, that
anything that works with the original HTTP server will also work with
Apache.

I've never done persistent CGI, so I may be way off base.

Apache should not be looking for a program with a numeric only name
as they are not valid in i5/OS

Apache looks for what you tell it to look for. Given:

ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/(.*) /$1

Apache will consider all of the text after '/cgi-bin/' to be the program
that is called. Thus the error about not being able to find
'QSYS.LIB/E310PRDOBJ.LIB/E31RPP.PGM/081780681744383/' The desired
program string ought to be 'QSYS.LIB/E310PRDOBJ.LIB/E31RPP.PGM', I think.

I believe that you need to strip the program name string from the
'parameter' digits. Perhaps something like

ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/(.*.PGM)(.*) /$1