Rev cgi on Win 2K server, anyone ?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- jbv <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr> wrote:
> 
> the version() function returns 2.6.1
> so I put revdb.dll into
>     C:\cgi-bin\components\global environment\
> and the dbmysql.dll driver in the same folder
> cgi-bin as
> the Rev cgi exe.
> 
> when using try / catch I get the floowing :
> 
>     219,15,8,revOpenDatabase
>     223,15,1
> 
> and line 15 of my script contains
> 
>     get revOpenDatabase("mysql","localhost", etc
> 
> I don't know if that means anything to anybody...
> btw, is there any errors list available somewhere ?
> 
> Meanwhile I've got an answer from runrev support,
> saying
> that from version 2.5 devDB and revXML libs were
> included
> in the engine, at least for Linux... but I don't
> know if that's
> also valid for windows versions...
> 
> Thanks,
> JB
> 

Hi JB,

I'm a little surprised that you have version 2.6.1 -
as far as I know, the last CGI release forWindows was
version 2.0, which you can get from:
<ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/engines/2.0/cgi/>

And for extra confusion, this will show the (good old
Metacard engine) version 2.5

Now, if my memory serves me well, the database driver
format changed around Revolution 2.5 - so to make sure
you have a compatible revdb.dll en database drivers,
download the 2.0 distribution revolution.zip at:
<ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/distributions/2.0>

Assuming that you're putting everything into the
c:\cgi-bin\ directory, make a subdirectory:
c:\cgi-bin\database_drivers\

Toss all the database driver .dll's from the
Revolution distribution:
Revolution 2.0.3\components/global
environment\database_drivers\Win32\
into this new directory:
- dbmysql.dll
- dbodbc.dll
- dboracle.dll
- dbpostgresql.dll
- dbvalentina.dll
- vxcmd.dll

As I haven't tried it yet with MySQL or PostgreSQL,
you may also have to copy:
- libmysql.dll
- libpq.dll
from the root directory of the Rev distribution.

Then, make sure to set the databse driver path from
your cgi script.
##
on startup
  revSetDatabaseDriverPath "./database_drivers/"
  -- now the rest of your cgi script
  ...
end startup
##

That's how I got it working just fine, using ODBC to
connect to a Progress database.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution
<http://www.quartam.com>

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