Changes to CGI Scripts

Information Technology will take steps to change the university's web address from www.louisville.edu to louisville.edu in December. On Dec. 1, IT will make changes to the university's web server to automatically forward the www.louisville.edu address to louisville.edu. In most cases, this will not require any change on your Web pages.

However, if you use cgi scripts (such as cgiemail, the official university e-mail script) for processing form data, there is one small change you may need to make. If you refer to cgi scripts in your HTML using a www.louisville.edu prefix, you must take out the "www" in the prefix. The following is an example using the university's cgiemail script as an example script:

form action="http://www.louisville.edu/cgi-bin/cgiemail"

you will need to change it to look like the following:

form action="http://louisville.edu/cgi-bin/cgiemail"

If your site is hosted on the main Web server (athena), the following will also work:

form action="/cgi-bin/cgiemail/"

This also applies to any user created cgi-bin directories and scripts.

You can make the change any time between now and Dec. 1.

If you have any questions or need help with this change, don't hesitate to contact Neil Gibbs at 8857 or by e-mail.