RevServer deployment on OSX Server

Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
Fri Feb 18 20:52:23 EST 2011


I meant irev scripts. I want to have some functionality be hidden from 
people with access to the scripts on a web site (say, a funciton that 
uploads things to my ftp site, so contains my ftp username and password).

If I was using CGI I could password protect that stack - but then the 
other people would need LC to be able to do anything to the CGI scripts.

Therefore  I need to use irev so the other people can edit simple irev 
text files (in reality, so they can edit the html parts of the irev 
files :-)  But that doesn't allow me to protect the usernames/passwords.

OK, I can work around it by using both a .irev and a CGI script, and 
POSTing the data from the irev to the CGI stack, so I have both 
user-friendly .irev files to edit *and* protected stacks; but that's 
extra complexity that I'd really like to avoid.

-- Alex.

On 19/02/2011 01:29, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 2/18/11 6:48 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>
>> and some features are just unavailable
>>
>> - can't use password-protected stacks, so you cannot protect stack
>> scripts on clients' sites
>
> But we can't use stacks at all in iRev yet. Or did you mean for CGI? 
> For old-style CGI you should be able to use password protected stacks, 
> but you'll have to protect them with the 3.5 engine. The password 
> scheme was changed in 4.0, and the 3.5 engine doesn't work with it.
>





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