CGI and MSQL in MAC OSX

[Dave Cragg]

On 2 Sep 2005, at 13:49, Dave Cragg wrote:

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> On 2 Sep 2005, at 13:16, paolo mazza wrote:
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>
>> Thanks Dave, Actually it is MySQL . You wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
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>>> MySQL drivers are included with Rev.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The drivers are included in the engine?
>> I am supposed to connect to MySQL from the CGI/revolution .. and I am
>> getting "Internal Server Error" when I try to  connect to the DB.
>> So.. I do not know why.
>>
>
>
> I meant that the drivers are distributed with the normal Rev  
> distribution, not embedded within the CGI engine.
>
> For what it's worth, I use mySQL with the Rev Darwin CGI engine  
> here. Unfortunately, it was a long time ago that I set it up.  
> Here's my setup.
>
> I use the Darwin engine that comes to 3,161,924 bytes. The engine  
> version as returned by "the version" function is 2.5G1. This  
> version I think has the revDB external embedded within the engine.
>
> In the same folder as my scripts, I have the driver dbmysql.so. I'm  
> a little puzzled as to why I have this here. As far as I can see,  
> only the Linux drivers distributed with the standard Rev  
> distribution have the ".so" suffix. However, the scripts won't work  
> without it.
>
> Perhaps someone can remind me of the source of the "dbmysql.so" file.

OK. I found the source. It was included with the Darwin engine  
package that I originally downloaded.

Cheers
Dave