CGI and DestroyStack property

[J. Landman Gay]

Tariel Gogoberidze wrote:
> 
> I must have one stack however, because it 
> summarizes quiz results for all students and sends summary back to each 
> student.

Just a note about saving data in stacks inside a CGI folder -- you 
usually can't do it. MC/Rev makes a backup copy of a stack before saving 
it, then if the save goes okay it deletes the backup. The permissions of 
a CGI folder on a server are usually set to disallow the creation of new 
files, so MC can't create the backup file and the save operation fails.

You can do it if you keep the stack somewhere else outside of the CGI 
folder, but I hear that can be a security risk (though I'm not sure how 
exactly, but someone wrote me once with very strong opinions about it.)

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