mod_autoindex and cgi generation

Greetings,

I wanted to set up apache so that when it generates a directory
listing, there's a link before the listing that includes the directory
name, i.e., is dynamically generated.

As far as I can tell, this means getting Apache to execute a CGI when
creating the listing, and again as far as I can tell, it won't. I'm
using apache 2.0.50 (compiled myself) under Red Hat WS 2.1.

Following the advice at the Apache documentation:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html
I tried setting text/html (and text/plain) as the file type for
..cgi's:

HeaderName /try.cgi
AddType text/html .cgi

This inserts the source of the cgi in the directory listing, rather
than the output.

The cgi's run fine when executed normally, i.e., http://myhost/try.cgi
runs and displays the output.

I tried other variations: using a /cgi-bin (aka ScriptAlias)
directory, IndexOptions +SuppressHTMLPreamble, mod_rewrite, etc.
Either there was no output at all, or the script source was inserted.

I looked at the mod_autoindex.c source. I see no special case for cgi
there, although I guess that doesn't prove anything one way or
another.

Any advice gratefully received. Please email me if possible.

Thanks,
karl.DeleteThis@tug.org

*** karl berry escribió/wrote (5 Sep 2004 14:41:30 -0700):
 > Following the advice at the Apache documentation:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html</font" target="_blank">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html</font</a>>
 > I tried setting text/html (and text/plain) as the file type for
 > .cgi's:
 >
 > HeaderName /try.cgi
 > AddType text/html .cgi
 >
 > This inserts the source of the cgi in the directory listing, rather
 > than the output.

That manual page is pretty confusing, at least for someone like me who's
mother tongue isn't English

What I've found through testing is that you can use a server-parsed file
(*.shtml) as header. That file can use SSI tags to include other files, for
example a PHP script. This way the script gets executed:

::: .htaccess

HeaderName /header.shtml


::: header.shtml

<!--#include file="test.php" -->


::: test.php

<?
echo 'Hello, world!";
?>



For whatever the reason, you can't do this:

HeaderName /test.php




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