CGI

[Mark Smith]

Thank you, Dan. That's the problem. And now you've reminded me, I  
remember that it caught me out before...

Thanks again.

Mark

On 18 Dec 2006, at 01:07, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Any of several things could cause what you're seeing. My first  
> guess in such
> situations is always that the line endings in the file you create in
> TextEdit are not set to Unix-style line endings but are rather Mac  
> line
> endings. That's one of many reasons I use BBEdit for such files  
> rather than
> TextEdit. I assume you have TextEdit set to create text rather than  
> RTF but
> even if you do, I think TextEdit does not normally produce Unix- 
> style line
> endings.
>
> If that's not the problem, post a reply and we can do some further  
> detective
> work.
>
> Dan
>
> On 12/17/06, Mark Smith <mark at maseurope.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying make a really simple text-file cgi (on OS X)., which I've
>> done in the past without difficulty.
>>
>> I create a new document in textEdit. I copy the script from
>> "echo.mt" (the script that comes with the Rev installation, I think)
>> into my new textEdit document.
>> I save it as "hello.mt". in the CGI-Executables folder. I chmod it's
>> permissions to 755.
>>
>> I type "http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.mt" into the Safari URL field.
>> I get "Internal Server Error".
>> I type "http://localhost/cgi-bin/echo.mt" into Safari URL field. I
>> get the expected listing of globals.
>>
>> When I get "the detailed files" from the CGI-Executables folder, I
>> can see that the permissions for "hello.mt" are indeed 755.
>>
>> So, I simply duplicate the "echo.mt" file, and rename it to  
>> "hello.mt".
>> I type "http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.mt" into the Safari URL field.
>> I get the expected listing of globals.
>>
>> I am now completely baffled. What have I missed out?
>> Can anyone shed some light?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
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