Set one exemplar aside for me...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Rice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 8:42 PM
> To: Sammy Banawan
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Apache local setup for CGI
>
>
> Thanks everybody for helping. The apache Tl restart is what I
> needed to
> get them working.
>
> > Also, you should use http://127.0.0.1/ as your base directory
> > and put your pages in /Library/WebServer/Documents/ to view
> them. The
> > ~username directory is for child’s play :) Real servers
> don’t do that :)
>
> Well actually it may be child's play but I want to make my local site
> work exactly the same as my live virtual web server. That way
> I can test
> my cgis in the same environment setting and I can edit my
> .htaccess file
> and be limited to what I can do that way. That's why I wanted
> to use it
> to set my index.php instead of editing my http.conf.
>
> I think we need a book that explains Apple's particular setup
> of UNIX.
> It seems like the NetinfoManager overrides many standard UNIX
> configurations. Navigating the OSX GUI is simple. What we need is
> someone to write a book to help us understand our version of UNIX.
>
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2001, at 02:09 AM, Sammy Banawan wrote:
>
> > on 6/27/01 2:02 AM, Sammy Banawan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> on 6/26/01 9:18 PM, Jeff Lowrey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >>>> At 9:04 PM -0400 6/26/01, Brad Rice wrote:
> >>>>>>>> I managed to get Apache up and running and I edited
> the config
> >>>>>>>> file
> >>>>>>>> to recognize my Sites file as http://localhost/~username
> >>>>
> >>>> Seriously, is this harder than enabling Web Sharing in
> the Sharing
> >>>> System Preferences panel?
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>> and use php as a DirectoryIndex.
> >>>>
> >>>> That might be harder.
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>> Now I can't seem to figure out what I need to do to make it
> >>>>>>>> recognize my cgi-bin as an executable directory. I
> was reading
> >>>>>>>> about
> >>>>>>>> ScriptAlias but I am not sure if I really need to edit that
> >>>>>>>> command
> >>>>>>>> to get it to work. My scripts are working in the
> terminal but
> >>>>>>>> not in
> >>>>>>>> the browser.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Can someone advise me what I need to do to get it to
> run test
> >>>>>>>> scripts?
> >>>>
> >>>> What do your web server log files say when you try and run your
> >>>> script? Have you checked the faqs for what to do when
> scripts run
> >>>> from the terminal, but not the browser?
> >>>>
> >>>> -Jeff Lowrey
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >> To get php as a directory index you need to open up
> >> /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
> >> and find the line that says directory index. Do a search for
> >> index.html and
> >> it’ll take you to the proper line. Add index.php (or
> whatever you want
> >> to
> >> call it) to that line and exit the editor. Type ‘apachectl
> restart’ and
> >> there you go.
> >>
> >> You should automatically have your CGI-Executables
> directory set up to
> >> be
> >> your cgi-bin. That is, you don’t need to do anything other
> than direct
> >> your
> >> browser to http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/nameofcgi.cgi to get
> it to work.
> >> You
> >> need to make sure that your permissions are correct (chmod 755
> >> nameofcgi.cgi) to get them to be accessible. Hope that helps.
> >>
> >
> > I forgot to add that your cgi’s need to be in the
> > /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/ directory to use them
> unless you
> > change
> > your httpd.conf file to look elsewhere or execute files in other
> > directories. Also, you should use http://127.0.0.1/ as your base
> > directory
> > and put your pages in /Library/WebServer/Documents/ to view
> them. The
> > ~username directory is for child’s play :) Real servers
> don’t do that :)
>
