SS000001.pl wandering out of the acatalog directory

[Dave Edwards]

I have a site with the following structure

/
|-/cgi-bin
|-/acatalog
|-/products

All the navgation links use the search script - i.e. the link is to http://www.domain.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss00...html&NOLOGIN=1

Some of these links are on pages that reside in the /products directory (a throwback to pre-catalog days). On occasions, if the navigation link is clicked on a page in the /products directory, the search script searches for the section page in the /products directory not the /acatalog directory, e.g. the script tries to find

http://www.domain.co.uk/products/Section.html

rather than

http://www.domain.co.uk/acatalog/Section.html

Once this happens no matter which directory the script is called from, the script tries to display a page in the products directory.

Has anyone any idea how to restrict the script to the /acatalog directory?

TVMIA

[NormanRouxel]

Without real URL's one can only suggest.

Why not just fix the links in all the products based pages to be normal href="../acatalog/Section.html" ones.

The page name is already in the searchscript based URL so each page could have all links fixed by a single regexp based search and replace using a good text editor like Notepad++.

As it stands, these are effectively hard-coded links and will prevent you ever changing your CGI Script ID number (often a good thing to do to fix script based problems).

You might even get away with a simple search and replace. E.g. replace all

www.domain.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?SECTIONID=

with

../acatalog/

And all

&NOLOGIN=1

with null.

[Dave Edwards]

Without real URL's one can only suggest.

Why not just fix the links in all the products based pages to be normal href="../acatalog/Section.html" ones.

Thanks, Norman. I was hoping to keep the links in both directories in sync automatically.

I had hoped we could just hardcode the path in the search script, but hey ho!

Thanks.

[peblaco]

Yes it can be done if you add Referrer on the end of your link. See here and here.

[Dave Edwards]

Thanks, Louise - that sounds like the sort of solution I was after. I'll give it a whirl. TVM