How to apply Apache directives to 'dynamic' HTML?

Tue Oct 9 21:27:15 UTC 2007

Chris G wrote:
> I am using the default apache 2.2 configuration in Fedora 7 as server
> on my home Linux box.  It's all working much as I want but I have one
> issue that I can't find any really straightforward information about.
> 
> How does one apply apache directives to web pages that are generated
> by a CGI script?  
> 
> I am running pyBlosxom (a python blog server) as a blog for personal
> notes, I want to set the default character set for only the blog pages
> to iso-8859-1 rather than the default utf-8.  How do I do this?
> 
> If it was just simple HTML then I'd do something like:-
> 
> <Directory /the/directory/with/html/files>
>     AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
> </Directory>
> 
> (I think!)  However I don't see how to apply this to files which are
> dynamically served by a CGI script, i.e. the URL is something like:-
> 
>     http://my.home.system/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.py/wiki/directory/file
> 
> What (if anything) do I put in the <Directory ....>?
> 

Hi Chris,

Since the script is responsible for generating the document you may 
embed the required charset within the <head> block and leave apache out 
of it.

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

hth,
Mike Wright :m)