OS X Rev CGI engine failure
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Sep 19 14:08:13 EDT 2008
Andre Garzia wrote:
> Hello Jacque,
>
> In MacOS X only the logged user has permission to connect to the
> windowing server (layer), so when you run your script from the
> terminal, it runs as the logged user, thus, revolution engine is able
> to connect to the GUI layer and is pretty happy. When you run as cgi,
> apache runs the cgi as user nobody (or a similar underpowered foe).
> This is for security reasons as you don't want your cgi to have
> administrator privileges.
I just did a test and set the rev engine permissions to: -rwxrwxrwx
Now anyone can do anything with it. But I get the same windowserver
error. :(
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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