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.htaccess: an example of the Apache per-directory configuration file

Using bloxsom as my weblog designing application, I had to provide some settings to the Apache .htaccess configuration file to fine-tune the usage of my site:

tell Apache to load index.cgi in addition to the default index.htm
rewrite the requested address adding www. if it's omitted
rewrite the requested address adding index.cgi if it's omitted
and for bandwidth reduction, forbid robots from crawling some pages

(Updated May 17 2014)

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Posted by: Z24 | Sat, May 17 2014 | Category: /configurations/both | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: .htaccess, apache, bloxsom, configuration, web

WAMP & Perl - Windows Apache, MySQL, PHP with CGI scripts written in Perl

I need Perl to run Blosxom, an open source and free CGI script to create blogs.
So I installed WAMP5 1.6.4a and ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 with MSI installer.
I already have my site on my disk, so I told my site directory to WAMP during the setup procedure and then I pointed my browser to http://localhost/index.cgi but it displayed the cgi instead of executing it.
This is what I did to make it work:

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Posted by: Z24 | Wed, May 04 2011 | Category: /configurations/windows | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: apache, bloxsom, configuration

Blosxom: How to insert a fixed path for images in Blosxom

I wrote some post on my new site created with Blosxom and I wanted to insert some images that I put in a directory called images under my website address root.
I found different solutions:

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