Standalones as CGI

[Andre Garzia]

Jacque,
this is true only for text script files. If you try to run a compiled linux
standalone, you better have some kind of X11 server handy. Also, using put
on a standalone does not get the data back to the browser, you need to write
to stdout.

:-)
andre

On 8/15/07, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
> > Downside of using Rev:  It's so finicky about server configuration that
> > it makes public sale of such a product prohibitive.
>
> The requirements for using a CGI on Linux (as I understand it, which I
> admit I'm hazy on) are that all the libs contained in a standard Linux
> installation need to be installed on the server. This was pretty
> ubiquitous a while back and didn't cause any trouble. At JaguarPC, where
> my site is hosted, I never had any trouble and it just all worked the
> first time I tried it.
>
> The trouble most people encounter now is that some ISPs choose not to
> install a few libraries that aren't strictly required for web serving.
> When those are missing, you get Rev's "missing files" error. Most ISPs
> will happily install them for you, since they don't interfere with the
> existing setup in any way; they just aren't required for most web
> applications.
>
> The other thing that causes trouble is if a newer version of a library
> has been installed on the server. In that case, you also get an error
> because the newer libs have different names (so you get the same
> "missing file" error.) This can usually be solved by naming an alias of
> the newer library to match the old one that Rev expects to find. I have
> even heard (but haven't tested) that you can create an empty text file
> and use that, as long as it has the name Rev is looking for. Most of the
> time, Rev doesn't really use those files either; they just have to be
> present.
>
> In either case, Rev is just relying on an installation that is now
> somewhat out of date, or which may be incomplete on the server. I
> believe the plan for the next Linux release is to reduce some of the
> various file dependencies, and hopefully those libraries which aren't
> specifically required for CGI work will no longer be required on the
> server.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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