[Metacard] Re: Darwin, CGI Question

[andu]

Richard MacLemale wrote:
> 
> Andu wrote,
> > The more empirical way: put home, tools and help stacks in the same
> > folder with the engine and do ./mc and see if metacard starts in gui.
> > Also try .cgi instead of .mt for the cgi file.
> > Test with a cgi known to work just in case the server may not have the
> > proper settings.
> 
> That works.  I wrote a text file named "test.mt" with a simple script which
> created a text file and put it in the same directory (in this case
> CGI-Executables) as mc and the other stacks.  The first line of the file is
> "#!mc" followed by "on startup" and then the script.  Then in command line,
> I typed ./mc test.mt, and wonder of wonders, the script was instantly run
> and the text file was created.  Cool!
> 
> Making the jump to being able to active the test.mt script via CGI, however,
> is not working.  Both the test.mt file and mc have proper permissions (755).
> I've got a test shell script which works fine when called from a browser.
> But when I attempt to hit the test.mt script, no dice.  Renaming the script
> to test.cgi does not help.
> 
> One thing - I can run my test shell script (named echo.sh) by typing:
> sh echo.sh
> 
> in the command line.  But typing
> 
> mc test.mt
> 
> in the command line will not run the test.mt script, yet typing
> 
> ./mc test.mt
> 
> in the command line does.  Being a UNIX newbie, I don't know what the ./
> does, but you can't execute without it.  So perhaps this has something to do
> with not being able to execute a script from a browser?

No, if you are in a directory (cd /dir) ./ means you want to execute
stuff from *that* directory. If you put mc in a directory listed in
$PATH (probably /usr/bin or /bin) it will do the same like sh.

> 
> I gotta believe that at least one MetaCard developer has already done all
> this.  I can't be the first person to try to run MetaCard Darwin engine on
> OS X as a replacement for Perl, can I?  :)
> 
> This is SOOOOOOOOO close and yet so far.  The idea of, on OS X, being able
> to run METACARD scripts is so cool I can hardly sleep at night.
> 
> Anyone have any further suggestions, or is this the end of the line?
> 
> :)
> Richard MacLemale
> Instructional Technology Specialist
> James W. Mitchell High School
> 
Andu