CGI access to PostGreSQL

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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Are you running 2.5?  You might want to look at (vote for?) bug 2247.

On Feb 18, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Aloha, Mark:
>
> Still no go on Linux as a CGI...--
>
> fixed the case as you said to:
>
> dbPostgresql.so
>
> one of our team put the file in  
> "/usr/local/lib/revolution/dbPostgresql.so "
>
> and tried to run this script from the cmd line shell as root but it  
> didn't work
>
> And I also tried putting it in the cgi bin of the virtual site where  
> it will eventually be used... still didn't work
>
> I also tried a full path from root to the cgi bin of the virtual site
>
> it still fails.  Not sure how to trouble shoot this one..I mean we  
> *can* do it by issuing SQL in shell commands but it would be much  
> better if we can use rev's dictionary then I can repurpose code that  
> is in thin rev clients for re-use in cgi's.
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/revolution
>
> on startup
>  ## revSetDatabaseDriverPath  
> "/usr/local/lib/revolution/dbPostgresql.so"
>  ## revSetDatabaseDriverPath  
> "/home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/cgi-bin/dbPostgresql.so"
>   revSetDatabaseDriverPath "dbPostgresql.so"
>   put  
> revOpenDatabase("Postgresql","69.94.64.57","cybertalks","user","passwor 
> d") into pConnectionID
>   if (pConnectionID) is a number then
>     put "Your Cybertalks data base opened successfully with connection  
> ID " into tResult
>     put pConnectionID after tResult
>     put tResult into buffer
>   else
>     put "Gosh darn, what's up?  The data base connection failed." into  
> buffer
> end if
>
>   put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr
>   put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr
>   put buffer
>
> end startup
>
> this works fine from inside the IDE on OSX:
>
>  revSetDatabaseDriverPath "dbPostgresql.so"
>   put  
> revOpenDatabase("Postgresql","69.94.64.57","cybertalks","user","passwor 
> d") into pConnectionID
>   if (pConnectionID) is a number then
>     put "Your Cybertalks data base opened successfully with connection  
> ID " into tResult
>     put pConnectionID after tResult
>     put tResult
>   else
>     put "Gosh darn, what's up?  The data base connection failed."
> end if
>
> We must still be missing something.
>
>
> Sivakatirswami
>
>
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 12:05 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote:
>
>> The Revolution 2.5 (and up) Linux engine has both revXML and revDB
>> embedded within it, so the externals are not necessary. However, the
>> database drivers themselves are not embedded and you need to tell the
>> engine where to find them by doing:
>>   revdb_setdriverpath <path_to_drivers>
>>   (or revSetDatabaseDriverPath <path_to_drivers>)
>> Where <path_to_drivers> is the directory containing the drivers. Also,
>> Linux paths are case-sensitive so make sure that the value you pass  
>> for
>> the database type looks the same as the driver file:
>>   i.e. if you pass "mysql" the engine will look for dbmysql.so
>>        if you pass "MySQL" the engine will look for dbMySQL.so
>>
>> Warmest Regards,
>>
>> Mark.
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>
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

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