Perl / CGI Question ..
 

Can you help me out?

I'm replacing a Top Sites script on my server from ?Top Sites Pro? (Coded in Perl) to ?Auto Rank PHP? (Coded in PHP), and I need to know how to redirect all existing incoming links to the new script.


The old (incoming) links look like:

http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/topsites.cgi?accountx


New site links need to look like:

http://www.site.com/in.php?id=accountx


I need to know what code to put into the "topsites.cgi" file to make the old accounts redirect to the new link.

How would I do this?

You could create a permanent redirect at the server (apache) level to do this for you so no change need to be made to scripts or existing partners.

WG

A rewrite in your .htaccess should do the trick.

Thanks, but what exactly do I add to my .htaccess file?

bump

In case anyone else was interested in how to do this, I came up with this code. It performs the account substitution nicely, and seems to work well.

* Note: I placed this code into my old "topsites.cgi" file.


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#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw(:standard);

my $id = param('id');

print "Location: http://www.mysite.com/in.php?id=$id\n\n";
print ("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
exit;

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:thumbsup

This is untested "air code".
$25 will have it installed and tested on your server.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /cgi-bin/topsites.cgi?(.*) /in.php?id=$1