Problem installing cgi engine [was : ANN: CGI tutorial online]

Wed Apr 28 11:55:28 EDT 2004

As  I saw you did everything fine. Procedures I use are:

1) upload the MC engine
2) chmod 755 mc
3) upload and install LibCGI.

can you run your hello.cgi from command line? is hello.cgi outputing 
correct like this:

Content-type: text/html
<html>
bla bla bla hello world bla bla
</html>

You can always try the cgitool stack I built, it's supposed to solve 
this problems. You can see it on http://www.soapdog.org/blog and 
download it from http://public.soapdog.org
It will setup MC as CGI on a remote server, it will also install and 
setup LibCGI. Your server must be FTP accessible for it to work.

Cheers
Andre

On Apr 28, 2004, at 12:49 PM, jbv wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a problem installing the Rev cgi engine on a
> Linus RedHat 9 / Apache box.
> I actually did the installation of earlier MC cgi engines
> 1 or 2 years ago, and everything went fine (and even
> built a few complete websites around these engines
> without any major problem).
>
> I'm following step-by-step the online tutorial :
>
> 1) download the Linux engine from this URL :
> http://www.runrev.com/revolution/downloads/engines/2.0/cgi/
>
> 2) unzip the file, renamed it "revolution" and upload it to the server
> cgi-bin
>
> 3) set the permissions to 755 (also tried with 777)
>
> 4) built the "Hello world" test script (with Unix carriage
> returns), upload it to the cgi-bin and set the permissions to 755
> (and also 777)
>
> 5) before that, checked the 1st line of the script : #!revolution
>
> And nevertheless I get a 500 server error with the following URL :
> http://195.200.114.63/cgi-bin/hello.cgi
>
> Meanwhile, in the same cgi-bin, I have another cgi test file (with 1st
> line : #!/bin/sh) that works fine :
> http://195.200.114.63/cgi-bin/test-cgi
>
>
> So I have the feeling the problem comes from the engine...
>
> BTW, when I unzip the archive, I get 3 files :
>    revolution-x86
>    .DS_Store
>    echo.mt
> should these 2 other files be uploaded to the cgi-bin as well ?
>
> Last but not least, I am downloading and unzipping the engine on
> (and uploading it from) Mac OS9 (don't have any Linux box at hand
> right now)... Could this be a problem ? In the past, I did download
> and unzip the windows engine several times and built windows
> standalones on Mac without any problem...
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks,
> JB
>
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