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
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