Re: Running CGI's locally on OSX
Well, Swami, I should probably remain silent on this, not having an OSX around - but the quick and fraught with peril answer may be - log in as root. (I would expect to hear back a few "no, don't do it!" responses from seasoned Unix veterans, because it lets you overcome all sorts of permission problems instantly without knowing what you are doing.) Again, I really don't know enough about your environment but I'd suggest you try it to see what happens. Sadhu | Message: 2 | Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 18:13:05 -1000 | Subject: Running CGI's locally on OSX | From: Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: Metacard List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I have moved up to OSX (it's wonderful) and want to develop CGI's on my own | machine. The mail lists have snippets, but not enough to put it all | together. | | I put a copy of the darwin engine into | | /Library/WebServe/CGI-Executables/ | | But, that's as far as I can get, the terminal.app on -ls returns only my | user directory. "/" returns permission denied...so OSX won't let me deeper | than my own user directory to CHMOD 755 to make the engine executable. | | Anyone figure this out yet? If so, suggest you would help us all to write a | small FAQ on the subject. | | Now, I am wondering if we need to use that library at all, really, if one | just made a cgi-bin directory in one's own "Sites" folder, then one could | set permissions from the terminal.app. But, I don't want to re-invent the | wheel just now. This has got to be simple. | | Hinduism Today | | Sivakatirswami ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Running CGI's locally on OSX
OK, this is solved now... See below for the "skinny Primer" > on 07-05-2002 06:01 AM, Mark Paris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Try #! /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/Darwin 2 > On the first line > And > on Thu, 04 Jul 2002 13:17:12 Richard MacLemale at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote > Ask and ye shall receive... > > http://mitchellonline.pasco.k12.fl.us/training/metacardcgi.htm > Let me know if there's any mistakes in it, because I wrote it half a year > ago. Also, there's one important piece of info that I think I left out. > When writing a cgi script for darwin mc, the script must contain UNIX line > breaks, NOT Mac line breaks. Which means you can't write it in TextEdit or > SimpleText. The best, easiest way to do this is to grab a free copy of > BBEdit Lite, which can save files with UNIX line breaks. Then you're off to > the races! Yes, this now works! : ==test-mc.cgi #! /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/mc #or whatever engine filename on startup put "Hello" into buffer put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr put buffer end startup But (duh!) #!mc On the first line will also work. Putting a slash in front when the engine filename was obviously the wrong thing to do (Unix thinks it's a directory) So.. It was a "path thing" that was the trouble... OK, that's a wrap. And, Richard... You page looks good except a) Yes, we need to document using Unix endlines (I did use BBEdit and I just save scripts that way as standard procedure... So I also didn't think about it, but needs to be told..." and b) you only need the one file -- the engine itself (no home stack tools etc) in the CGI-Executables Thanks for everyone's input... What a great forum! =Kevin... Someone could polish this for a tip of the week: SKINNY PRIMER: installing faceless Metacard or Revolution On your MAX OSX machine for running CGI's on your own machine: 0) Go to system preferences and turn on Web Sharing 1) Download the Darwin engine, untar and put it in: /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables 2) Put your CGI script in the same folder: but, caveat: be sure to save your script in BBEdit as generic text with Unix endlines 3) Using Terminal.app... Navigate to CGI-Executables and then run >From the command line: chmod 755 darwinEngine myCGIscript.cgi 4) from command line run ls -l to check on your permissions which should now read rxw r-w r-w for both files Which means: owner can read, execute and write, groups can read and write only and the public/world can read and write only. 5) See http://mitchellonline.pasco.k12.fl.us/training/metacardcgi.htm For more detailed explanation (Note his explanation uses Metacard...and fyi you do not need the tools, home stack.. Only the engine is required) 6) in your browser enter http://my.machine.ip/cgi-bin/test.cgi To test. 7) Sample test script below. The first line is critical. It can be either #! /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/darwinEngine ## for clarity on startup put "Hello" into buffer put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr put buffer end startup Or the first line can be simply #!darwinEngine ## no slash at the beginning, If the above works you can skip the following step 8) If you find your script is not always running every time it is called you may need to open this file in BBEdit by looking for hidden files in the root directory: (very carefully!) /etc/http/httpd.conf And uncomment this line: # AddHandler cgi-script .cgi [becomes:] AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Go to System preferences and turn web Sharing and off and then on again to reboot Apache to get Apache to load the new httpd.conf Now, this should not be necessary, but may be... Try without first. This will also allow you to place the engine and scripts in a cgi-bin anywhere else on your hard drive (in your "Sites" directory for example) But there are security issues if you do the latter: go to http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/14/apache_two.html For more information and also a simple guide to using terminal.app if you are complete unix newbie. If you have more questions, post them to the list. END PRIMTER ON INSTALLING DARWIN TO RUN AS FACELESS CGI ENGINE ON MAC OS X LOCAL MACHINE Om shanti, Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HinduismToday.com, www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.Gurudeva.org, www.hindu.org Read The Master Course Lesson of the Day at http://www.gurudeva.org/lesson.shtml ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Running CGI's locally on OSX
On 7/5/02 12:02 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Premature end of script headers" error message in the error_log when trying > to call this script: > > ==test-mc.cgi > #!/mc > on startup > put "Hello" into buffer > put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr > put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr > put buffer > end startup > = > > I don't know if this means that the MC Darwin engine is working or not... > > Anyone else have clues? Again, seems simple, but doesn't work. Couple of things to try. One, I use #!mc and not #!/mc, but that's probably not your problem. However, make sure that the script file you wrote is saved with UNIX line breaks! Not Mac line breaks. If you haven't already, grab a copy of Bbedit lite, which is free, free, free and awesome. It can easily save your script with UNIX line breaks. I'd guess that's the problem. -- :) Richard MacLemale Network Administrator J. W. Mitchell High School ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Running CGI's locally on OSX
Ask and ye shall receive... http://mitchellonline.pasco.k12.fl.us/training/metacardcgi.htm Let me know if there's any mistakes in it, because I wrote it half a year ago. Also, there's one important piece of info that I think I left out. When writing a cgi script for darwin mc, the script must contain UNIX line breaks, NOT Mac line breaks. Which means you can't write it in TextEdit or SimpleText. The best, easiest way to do this is to grab a free copy of BBEdit Lite, which can save files with UNIX line breaks. Then you're off to the races! One other non-documented thing. You can give a script permission to run as root, meaning it can do anything root can do. This is sometimes handy for pulling off stuff that would otherwise not be possible. But it opens up a security hole, in that if anyone figured out a way to modify the script they could do serious damage. But so long as the script is owned by root and the group and everyone privs are read only, you should be safe. I've been using darwin mc with CGI scripts to help run my high school network for a while now, and it IS the coolest thing ever. -- :) Richard MacLemale Network Administrator J. W. Mitchell High School ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Running CGI's locally on OSX
OK, see previous post... I "hit the books" and was able to do the following Put the Darwin engine in the two places /Users/katir/Sites/cgi-bin/ And also in the /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/ I figured out how to use the terminal.app on OSX and went in and CHMOD everything to 755 (both engines in both places, the cgi-bin in my own Sites folder and my test script below.) #! /mc On startUp Put "hello" End startUP If I invoke the cgi from my browser http:/my.machine.ip/~katir/cgi-bin/test-mc.cgi It just returns the ascii text of the cgi... I.e. Nothing is executed... Same thing happens if I change the path to the engine to: #! /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/mc Still no go... Any clues? Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HinduismToday.com, www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.Gurudeva.org, www.hindu.org Read The Master Course Lesson of the Day at http://www.gurudeva.org/lesson.shtml ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Running CGI's locally on OSX
I have moved up to OSX (it's wonderful) and want to develop CGI's on my own machine. The mail lists have snippets, but not enough to put it all together. I put a copy of the darwin engine into /Library/WebServe/CGI-Executables/ But, that's as far as I can get, the terminal.app on -ls returns only my user directory. "/" returns permission denied...so OSX won't let me deeper than my own user directory to CHMOD 755 to make the engine executable. Anyone figure this out yet? If so, suggest you would help us all to write a small FAQ on the subject. Now, I am wondering if we need to use that library at all, really, if one just made a cgi-bin directory in one's own "Sites" folder, then one could set permissions from the terminal.app. But, I don't want to re-invent the wheel just now. This has got to be simple. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HinduismToday.com, www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.Gurudeva.org, www.hindu.org Read The Master Course Lesson of the Day at http://www.gurudeva.org/lesson.shtml ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
