On Jan 8, 2006, at 14:02, Dan Crutcher wrote: > I'm trying to set up a demo version of a website content management > system (CMS) on my Powerbook, running 10.4.3. I have never used the > personal web sharing feature of X before. > > First, I turned on Personal Web Sharing in the system preferences. > > Now I'm trying to install the CMS and its built-in web site. One of > the first instructions is: "Find your server's CGI directory" in > order to install some files there. It later says, "if you do not > see a CGI directory . . . create a directory called "cgi-bin". > > The only directory (folder) I can find with "cgi" in it is one > called "CGI-Executables" in the /Library/WebServer folder (this is > the Library folder in the hard drive's main directory). Is that > what the instructions are referring to as my "server's CGI > directory" or should I create my own called "cgi-bin" -- and if the > latter, where should it be created?
It depends on how the application will find the files. What might be the safest bet is to make a symlink from CGI-Executables to cgi-bin. You can do this by opening the terminal typing cd /Libaray/WebServer hitting return typing sudo ln -s CGI-Executables cgi-bin hitting return entering your admin password hitting return This'll make the symlink, so that cgi-bin and CGI-Executables will look and behave like one and the same folder. Of course, I'm just guessing at this... Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060108/64885bc6/attachment.bin
