Metacat

This type of a redirect will simply shield the actual URI problem in the source. Can't we find these problems and fix them? If we don't, then people at other sites that install it will likely run into problems when the URLs don't work for them without the redirects.

The URLs in the pages themselves (e.g. the 'Registry' link from the NCEAS skin) will work fine, only preexisting references are affected. This has been tested and works fine on dev, the following lines were added:

RewriteEngine   On
    RewriteLog      "/var/log/httpd/rewrite_log" 
    RewriteLogLevel 5
    RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/(.*) http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/knb/cgi-bin/$1 [L,R=301]

Additionally, the ScriptAlias and <Directory> blocks for the old /cgi-bin/ reference were removed.

Original Bugzilla ID was 3911