[Koha] Koha ScriptAlias Work around?

[Reed Wade]

I haven't had a chance to try this out but one thing you may find
useful is bluehost does support adding these-

AddHandler cgi-script .pl

to .htaccess files

-reed



On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
> On 27 May 2010 08:53, Dwayne Collins <dcollins at prcsa.ca> wrote:
>> Hi Reed,
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion; it was one of the options I was thinking
>> about; although I'll be honest when I say my skills with htaccess leave
>> a bit to be desired.
>>
>> The other option I was considering was changing the installation
>> preferences so that the scripts were installed in the cgi-bin/koha
>> directory rather than having to have any redirects at all, I'm weary to
>> do this, though, without a clear idea of why the redirects used in the
>> koha-httpd.conf file were put in place to begin with.
>>
> Ahh brief Koha history .. back in the day Koha was written to run on a
> webserver along side a bunch of other things. So all the Koha cgi
> scripts lived in /cgi-bin/koha ... other stuff could live in
> cgi-bin/whatever
> So the scripts did used to get installed in that location, and there
> we a ton of links to those locations. Over time (i think around
> 2004/2005) the install location got moved and the scriptalias' added
> so the links all still worked.
>
> So no, there is no danger in putting the scripts in those places, or
> using a symlink to do so, and taking the scriptalias lines out.
>
> Chris
>
>> My host provider is Bluehost.com. I've been reading the list for awhile
>> and many people seem to run into difficulties trying to get a Koha
>> install to work with them.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dwayne
>>
>> On 25/05/10 5:44 AM, Reed Wade wrote:
>>> A bit hacky but maybe you could set up a rewrite rule to catch the
>>> request and forward it to the url your scripts are located at?
>>>
>>> Who's your hosting provider?
>>>
>>> -reed
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Dwayne Collins<dcollins at prcsa.ca>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I've been working to install Koha on a shared server without root access
>>>> (I am trying to migrate to my commercial webhost). It's been a rather
>>>> long road thus far but, after much struggling and help from my webhost's
>>>> tech support, I've managed to get the scripts to run with one small
>>>> problem: redirects aren't directing to the proper spot because I don't
>>>> have the ability to use httpd.conf which means that there is no
>>>> ScriptAlias that will point in the right direction. Before I spend a
>>>> couple of weeks digging around trying to work around this, I thought I
>>>> would ask if anyone has had any luck in installing Koha without the need
>>>> for ScriptAlias to be used in the the koha-httpd.conf file or if anyone
>>>> had any ideas on how to approach working around this?
>>>>
>>>> I've checked with my webhost and there's nothing that they can do to
>>>> allow me to use ScriptAlias.
>>>>
>>>> Any help on this front would be most appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Dwayne Collins
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