Revolution as CGI in OS X

[Gregory Lypny]

Hello Tom,

On Apr 21, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> I won't tell you to shut up if you are willing to compile all that you
> are learning about this and 'post' it somewhere in a logical sensible
> way. That way I can follow your path and learn to do it when my need
> arises (I know it will).

	It's a deal, provided that you don't mind it being written in everyday 
language.
>
> I think the lack of docs on it are because it involves a lot more than
> just REV knowledge. Maybe you can be the one to put this all down. You
> seem to be very articulate.

	There's OS-specific stuff, I'm sure; but what it comes down to is 
instructing your web server to execute text files in some cgi folder, 
and those in turn communicating with Revolution and returning 
information to a web page.  I'm sure that if this was posted in 
step-by-step format on a support page hosted by the Revolution, it 
would save users a lot of searching and trial-and-error.

	Greg

>
>
> Looking forward,
>
> Tom

Which was in response to my request:

>> Well, don't hesitate to tell me to shut up if you've had enough of my
>> posts on this.  I'm a little bewildered and frustrated that
>> Revolution's documentation and web site doesn't contain anything, at
>> least as far as I can tell, about setting up Revolution as a CGI.  I
>> know about Andre Garcia's slick server project, and he's given me some
>> excellent tips.  But I need to experiment with some basic cgi 
>> scripting
>> first, and all I need is the basic set up.
>>
>> These are the instructions that I found at Takaaki Furukawa's site:
>>
>> "Rename the engine to "revolution" (if you'd like). Put the engine in
>> the same directory as license.rev, and give the permission to execute.
>> (chmod +x revolution)".
>>
>> My skull is really thick, so please humour me.  Is the engine the
>> actual Revolution application (package) which resides in the 
>> Revolution
>> 2.2 folder which resides in my Applications folder?  Otherwise, I 
>> don't
>> know what the engine is.  Do I simply then open the Terminal
>> application and enter "chmod +x revoution"?  Do I save my cgi scripts
>> in .../WebServer/CGI-Executables?  As for my own system, I do have Web
>> Sharing turned on.
>>
>> Any assistance would be most appreciated.