Hello, all.

I'm working on a project which involves custom RewriteRules that redirect the user to specific CGI pages. The rules look something like this:

However, using that rule throws a 500 error.

I've read and re-read every guide on RewriteRule's I've been able to find, and I can't for the life of me seem to figure out what's going wrong here(if I don't add the .cgi at the end, it works fine - throwing a 404 because the file doesn't exist).

Does anyone know what I might have done wrong while writing this RewriteRule?

Thanks,
Girasquid

Edit:
After tweaking my rule, I have found that this line will work(inside the 'story' directory):

However, that attempts to rewrite to /story.cgi - which is not what I want. I need to rewrite to the local copy. Removing the initial slash, however, throws a 500 error:

Taking out the escape on the . in .cgi also does not fix anything:


Edit #2:
After some more testing, it would seem that it's the . in the .cgi that's breaking things. However, even after I escape the dot(\.), the problem persists.

This post has been edited by girasquid: 16 Nov, 2007 - 12:26 PM

1.) Does the server have read permissions on that directory so that they are viewable?
2.) Can the cgi pages be directly loaded? It sounds like that's what you are doing. In some situations, the cgi exists beyond the root directory of the server, & must be referanced server side only.
3.) Are the cgi files executable? Assuming you are on a *nix system.

The answer is yes, to all of those questions.