Can't retrieve a text file from a remote CGI folder

[stephen barncard]

Andre had the same problem helping me to try to use the top-level cgi
folder at Dreamhost. I'd love to make it work, maintaining a Livecode
instance for every domain and the same server account is a pain.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:01 PM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 4/10/13 11:39 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>> Jacque-
>>
>> Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 8:08:41 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>  But I do only want to read from it. I think you're right that
>>> permissions won't allow remote reading, otherwise anyone could read the
>>> scripts in there.
>>>
>>
>> I was gonna suggest that, except you said the scripts have been
>> working for years. I wouldn't put anything like that into the cgi-bin
>> folder, since I think browsers don't by design have access to it
>> unless you really screw up the permissions.
>>
>>
> No browsers are involved. It's kind of a long story, and couple of things
> got conflated in the confusion. My cgi scripts have been working for years,
> and they read/write to a log file that lives in the main cgi folder.
> Someone with the same server issues I had asked me why his logging script
> was failing. I didn't want to test with my main logging script, which is
> doing some real business, so I wrote that test script and it failed. I
> assumed my real one was failing too, but it turned out my test had a
> missing carriage return.
>
> Also, the person wants to retrieve his log file using a "get url" command
> in a button in a stack. I've been doing that for ages, and it still does
> work for me, with one difference: the file I retrieve is in a cgi folder in
> a subdomain. So I tried to get a text file from the main cgi folder
> instead, and it does fail there. I'm wondering why I can access a file from
> a subdomain cgi-bin but not from the master cgi-bin.
>
>
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