Hi, thanks for the information. I'm using Rebol on Hostgator for testing. Here is a running example: http://moldibi.com/cgi-bin/test.r @Carl: Could you post these explanations to rebolforum as well.
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:54:05 +0300 tarihinde Carl Read <[email protected]> şöyle yazmış: > > Hi all, > > Prompted by Tim's recent post about web hosting, I thought I'd mention > my experience with getting REBOL scripts running on hostgator.com. I'd > planned to do this after I had some serious scripts running on my site, > but I haven't got that far yet. However, test scripts have worked and > I've a cron-job running, so I know the basics work. > > Firstly, before signing up, I'd asked HostGator if it was okay for REBOL > to be installed on a website hosted by them. Their reply was: "Yes, that > executable can be installed locally on your account. And assuming it was > compiled in such a manner as to function with our systems, it should run > without error." > > The reason I thought HostGator might allow this was because of this > thread... > > http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=15&archiveflag=archive > > Next, I needed to know what version of REBOL to run, the answer being > here... > > http://support.hostgator.com/articles/pre-sales-questions/are-your-servers-unix-linux-or-windows-nt > > So, "CentOS Linux x86", aka "Red Hat Linux", which equates to REBOL/Core > for "Linux x86 Fedora". (Fedora being 'sponsored' by Red Hat.) > > HostGator sites come with cPanel installed, and I used cPanel's > file-manager to place REBOL/Core on the site, the file-manager also > handling the .tar.gz unpacking. I then followed the instructions here... > > http://www.rebol.com/docs/cgi1.html#section-7 > > to set the permissions and get scripts running. (The cPanel file-manager > can be used to set permissions.) And as described in the rebol.com docs > linked to above, the following is the format to use in the first line of > your REBOL cgi scripts... > > #!/home/your-account/rebol -c > > Your scripts' file-names need to use a .cgi extension to run, but they > can be placed anywhere on your site, not just in the cgi-bin directory. > (It's possible they could be made to work with a .r extension, but I've > not looked into that/asked about it.) > > Finally, I used cPanel to get cron scripts running. The path for a cron > script is of the following format... > > /home/user-name/dir-path/cron-script.cgi > > All in all, this proved to be reasonably hassle-free and the HostGator > responses prompt and helpful. (Albeit before I'd signed up, I not > needing to ask for any REBOL-related help since.) > > Hope that's of some use to someone. (And that there's nothing important > I left out. Feel free to ask any questions, anyway.) > > -- Carl Read. > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
