Re: Aliases in cgis
In a message dated 10/26/02 7:50:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oop, just caught this one after hurredly replying to the last! I never knew that Terminal tip, however =). While we're at it, for anyone not familiar, if you are ever trying to *type* a path into the terminal as a command-line argument, you can always hit to auto-complete the path. Brian Wait -- it works. I found a stupid mistake in the file path. Funny how using the right path makes a difference. :) So here is today's tip for anyone like me who has fat fingers: drag the file whose path you need directly into the Terminal window. It figures out the file path for you, and all you have to do is copy/paste it into your script. I wish I'd done that to begin with...
Re: Aliases in cgis
Only thing I can think of off the top of my head... make sure the file path is in POSIX-style (what you'll see in the 2.4.3 version for Mac when you use "answer file"). It should look like: /MyFiles/stack.mc but NOT like /Macintosh HD/MyFiles/stack.mc That is... leave off the volume name. What happens if you try to open and read a text file from the same folder- does that work? Brian
Re: Aliases in cgis
On 10/26/02 6:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/26/02 6:09 PM, andu wrote: So you want to have the stack at hand not the cgi script? Make sure you have the correct path to the stack and it should work. Wait -- it works. I found a stupid mistake in the file path. Funny how using the right path makes a difference. :) So here is today's tip for anyone like me who has fat fingers: drag the file whose path you need directly into the Terminal window. It figures out the file path for you, and all you have to do is copy/paste it into your script. I wish I'd done that to begin with... -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Aliases in cgis
On 10/26/02 6:09 PM, andu wrote: So you want to have the stack at hand not the cgi script? Make sure you have the correct path to the stack and it should work. The only other thing that comes to mind is, you might need an engine where the stack is... Right, I want the script in the cgi folder to access the stack in my user folder. A sym link isn't working. I also tried putting the full path to the stack into the script, but that doesn't work either. Maybe there is no way to do it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Aliases in cgis
--On Saturday, October 26, 2002 17:28:27 -0500 "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/26/02 4:55 PM, andu wrote: Not sure what server you are using but for Apache there is a config file directive: Yes, Apache. ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/my-directory/cgi-bin/" AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all which is meant to do what you want. The allows for other options as well. BTW, make sure you understand the difference between an alias and a [sym]link since they are not the same. Hope this helps. I found this already set up in the config file. The note in there about scriptalias basically says it allows you to set a different cgi folder, but all I want is a file alias. There is a similar configuration for plain aliases -- maybe I need to set that? I don't know much about this, but it seems important that the file will be opened by MC and not by the server. When an MC script starts using a stack, does the server config file even matter? The request isn't coming in over the network when that happens. So you want to have the stack at hand not the cgi script? Make sure you have the correct path to the stack and it should work. The only other thing that comes to mind is, you might need an engine where the stack is... -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Regards, Andu Novac ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Aliases in cgis
On 10/26/02 4:57 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Did you try in inverting the problem, by letting the stack in the cgi folder and putting an alias of it in your user folder ? I didn't try it, though I thought of it. But I usually only back up my user folder, so I like to keep all my files in there if possible. Right now I'm making a copy of the stack to put in the cgi folder, but I was hoping to avoid that step by reading the stack directly. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Aliases in cgis
On 10/26/02 4:55 PM, andu wrote: Not sure what server you are using but for Apache there is a config file directive: Yes, Apache. ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/my-directory/cgi-bin/" AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all which is meant to do what you want. The allows for other options as well. BTW, make sure you understand the difference between an alias and a [sym]link since they are not the same. Hope this helps. I found this already set up in the config file. The note in there about scriptalias basically says it allows you to set a different cgi folder, but all I want is a file alias. There is a similar configuration for plain aliases -- maybe I need to set that? I don't know much about this, but it seems important that the file will be opened by MC and not by the server. When an MC script starts using a stack, does the server config file even matter? The request isn't coming in over the network when that happens. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Aliases in cgis
Hello Jacque, > > I have a MetaCard cgi script on my local network (OS X) that puts a > stack in use. It works fine as long as the stack is in the > CGI-Executables folder. What I want to do is keep the stack outside the > cgi folder but still readable by the cgi script, so that the data > returned by the script is always current with the stack in my user folder. Did you try in inverting the problem, by letting the stack in the cgi folder and putting an alias of it in your user folder ? Else, by default, the macosx finder aliases are only usables inside the current home account of the logged user. Are you sure that the cgi script and stack owners are set as needed ? > I set the permissions for the stack in my user folder to 755. I tried > putting the long path to the stack into the script but it didn't work > (but maybe I got the path wrong.) I tried putting a Mac alias made in > the Finder into the cgi folder, as well as a unix-type aliases made in > Terminal. Neither of those worked either. I set the http.config file for > my user name to include "useSymLinks" in the options line (though I > don't think that file is consulted,) and the Mac http.config file > already includes it. Because i'm only a newbie in about MacOSX (and still prefer Linux to work in about web toys !), i can't figure more how to help... > Is it possible to do what I want, and if so, can someone give > idiot-proof directions? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > ___ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard -- Best Regards, Pierre Sahores Inspection académique de Seine-Saint-Denis. Applications et bases de données WEB et VPN Qualifier et produire l'avantage compétitif ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Aliases in cgis
--On Saturday, October 26, 2002 16:21:52 -0500 "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a MetaCard cgi script on my local network (OS X) that puts a stack in use. It works fine as long as the stack is in the CGI-Executables folder. What I want to do is keep the stack outside the cgi folder but still readable by the cgi script, so that the data returned by the script is always current with the stack in my user folder. I set the permissions for the stack in my user folder to 755. I tried putting the long path to the stack into the script but it didn't work (but maybe I got the path wrong.) I tried putting a Mac alias made in the Finder into the cgi folder, as well as a unix-type aliases made in Terminal. Neither of those worked either. I set the http.config file for my user name to include "useSymLinks" in the options line (though I don't think that file is consulted,) and the Mac http.config file already includes it. Is it possible to do what I want, and if so, can someone give idiot-proof directions? Not sure what server you are using but for Apache there is a config file directive: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/my-directory/cgi-bin/" AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all which is meant to do what you want. The allows for other options as well. BTW, make sure you understand the difference between an alias and a [sym]link since they are not the same. Hope this helps. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Regards, Andu Novac ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Aliases in cgis
I have a MetaCard cgi script on my local network (OS X) that puts a stack in use. It works fine as long as the stack is in the CGI-Executables folder. What I want to do is keep the stack outside the cgi folder but still readable by the cgi script, so that the data returned by the script is always current with the stack in my user folder. I set the permissions for the stack in my user folder to 755. I tried putting the long path to the stack into the script but it didn't work (but maybe I got the path wrong.) I tried putting a Mac alias made in the Finder into the cgi folder, as well as a unix-type aliases made in Terminal. Neither of those worked either. I set the http.config file for my user name to include "useSymLinks" in the options line (though I don't think that file is consulted,) and the Mac http.config file already includes it. Is it possible to do what I want, and if so, can someone give idiot-proof directions? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
