RevServer on OSX (Snow Leopard Server)

[Keith Clarke]

...sorry, you're correct, it's an alias - mea culpa, still learning the jargon as well as the syntax!

Just to be clear, are you running a standard Snow Leopard machine as a server or the formal OSX Server product - I'm running the latter and the web services settings are very different to those on my standard Snow Leopard MBP?

On 16 Dec 2010, at 13:11, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Keith,
> 
> Symlink? Are you sure your CGI-BIN folder is a symlink and not an alias?
> 
> Check your Apache Error logs for suEXEC violations, you may be facing Apache
> suEXEC violations...
> 
> As for your other email, this is plain vanilla snow leopard. I think it
> creates a conf file for each user in the machine automatically, can't
> remember if I created that or not.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Keith Clarke <
> keith.clarke at clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> ...thanks, Andre. I've added the ExecCGI option to the
>> /Library/WebServer/Documents/ directory directive and removed the trailing
>> '/' on the irev script action directive, as my revServer engine is a file
>> within in the (symlinked) /cgi-bin/ folder. Not working yet but hopefully
>> two fewer typos to worry about!
>> 
>> On 16 Dec 2010, at 12:24, Andre Garzia wrote:
>> 
>>> Oh and one addendum (thats latin for missed one thing):
>>> 
>>> In this piece here from your configuration file:
>>> 
>>> <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
>>>  AllowOverride All
>>>  Options MultiViews
>>>  Order allow,deny
>>>  Allow from all
>>>  AddHandler irev-script .irev
>>>  Action irev-script /cgi-bin/revserver/
>>> </Directory>
>>> 
>>> You need to change to this:
>>> 
>>> <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
>>>  AllowOverride All
>>>  Options MultiViews ExecCGI
>>>  Order allow,deny
>>>  Allow from all
>>>  AddHandler irev-script .irev
>>>  Action irev-script /cgi-bin/revserver/revserver
>>> </Directory>
>>> 
>>> You need ExecCGI and you need to provide the engine to the Action handler
>>> not the folder the engine is in.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Keith,
>>>> 
>>>> I have this on /etc/apache2/users/soapdog.conf
>>>> 
>>>> <Directory "/Users/soapdog/Sites/" >
>>>>   AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
>>>>   AddHandler irev-script .irev
>>>>   Action irev-script /cgi-bin/revserver
>>>>   Options Indexes MultiViews ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
>>>>   AllowOverride All
>>>>   Order allow,deny
>>>>   Allow from all
>>>> </Directory>
>>>> 
>>>> This allows me to execute revserver on my users Sites folder such as
>>>> http://localhost/~soapdog/test.irev
>>>> 
>>>> I have this on /Library/WebServer/Documents/.htaccess
>>>> 
>>>> Options ExecCGI
>>>> AddHandler irev-script .irev
>>>> Action irev-script /cgi-bin/revserver
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I have nothing on Apache httpd.conf and on the .htaccess of
>> CGI-Executables
>>>> I just have ExecCGI. That is all, things run fine here. I think you are
>>>> missing ExecCGI on your /Library/WebSever/Documents options.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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