10.5.56. AddHandler

10.5.56. AddHandler

AddHandler maps file extensions to specific handlers. For example, the cgi-script handler can be matched with the extension .cgi to automatically treat a file ending with .cgi as a CGI script. The following is a sample AddHandler directive for the .cgi extension. 

         AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

This directive enables CGIs outside of the cgi-bin to function in any directory on the server which has the ExecCGI option within the directories container. Refer to Section 10.5.22, “Directory” for more information about setting the ExecCGI option for a directory.

In addition to CGI scripts, the AddHandler directive is used to process server-parsed HTML and image-map files.


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