[EMAIL PROTECTED] (cameason) wrote:
>I would very much like to run cgi apps locally through a browser for
>development and error checking before uploading them to a sever.
Yeah, that's one of the great reasons to use OS X in my opinion.
>By turning on web sharing I can access normal pages through a browser
>(eg: http://localhost/~user/page.html) but I get the error message
>"The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL
>/~user/cgi-bin/test.cgi."
>
>I gather there is some basic configuration step I'm missing.
You can put scripts in the global CGI directory
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/ , or turn on CGI execution (either
by directory or filename) in the .conf files. By default users can't
run CGI scripts in their home directories.
>
>I can't seem to find apache's .conf files or logs anywhere.
They're in /etc/httpd/ . You can find out where they are by starting
the web server, then doing 'ps auxw |grep httpd'. If the server wasn't
explicitly given the name of a .conf file at startup, you can find out
the default by doing '/usr/sbin/httpd -V'.
>
>Is there a walk-through or tutorial somewhere for setting up to do
>this anywhere yet?
The Apache docs are included with the distribution (go to http://localhost/),
or available at www.apache.org.
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