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 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
