Running CGI's locally on OSX

[Sadhunathan Nadesan]

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 <katir at hindu.org>
| To: Metacard List <metacard at lists.runrev.com>,
|         <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
| Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
| 
| 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.
| 
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