LC Server on DreamHost?

[Scott Rossi]

Thanks to the patient generosity of our fearless Community Leader Richard
Gaskin, between us we were able to determine the combination of .htaccess
files needed to get LCserver working on DreamHost under Ubuntu (at least
for my situation).  As a few others have noted, the most basic setup is
more or less like what Stephen Barncard and Andre Garcia came up with some
time ago:

Domain [folder]
    .htaccess
    cgi-bin [folder]
         .htaccess
         drivers [folder]
         externals [folder]
         livecode-server

Domain root .htaccess file contents:
AddHandler livecode-script .lc .irev
Action livecode-script /cgi-bin/livecode-server


cgi-bin folder .htaccess file contents:
Options ExecCGI
SetHandler cgi-script

(³livecode_server² can be replaced with ³livecode-community-server²)


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After I received some conflicting information from DreamHost tech support,
Richard was able to determine that the second htaccess file in the cgi-bin
folder is required to make things work (this is probably what most others
already have in their domains).

I don¹t know what¹s needed if anything for PHP processing, but in my case
some root level directives (mentioned below) that used to work fine under
the old servers break certain pages of my site on the current servers, so
some more experimenting may be needed to get that working.  But at least
LCserver is running again.

Many thanks Richard!

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 11/18/14, 10:50 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

>stephen barncard wrote:
>
> > With all due respect - the problem here is getting livecode and php to
> > execute together in the same domain space (where we might want some
> > Wordpress pages AND livecode. This is my problem as well.
>
>Thanks.  Somehow I missed the reference to PHP requirements in Scott's
>message.
>
> > The htaccess magic words that used to allow this with PHP 5.2 don't
> > work any more...
>
>IIRC the notice I got from DH said they've upgraded to PHP 5.3.  I don't
>spend enough time with PHP to know what differences may affect shared
>hosting.
>
>Here's the link they provided for PHP assistance in their upgrade notice
>from Nov 5:
><http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini#Upgrading_your_site_.28if_you.27re_movi
>ng_to_Ubuntu_from_Debian_servers.29>
>
>
> > - some syntax has changed either with PHP, Apache, or
> > the use of Ubuntu vs Debian.
> >
> > Options +ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
> > AddHandler livecode-script .lc .irev
> > AddHandler php-script .php .htm .html
> > DirectoryIndex index.irev index.lc index.php index.html
> > Action livecode-script
>/cgi-bin/livecode-server/livecode-community-server
> >
>
>Is it necessary to declare special handling for PHP when declaring
>special handling for other file types?  I'd thought PHP support was a
>given on DH's shared hosting accounts, handled in Apache2.config at the
>server level.
>
>To double-check what I had originally understood from Scott's post
>(looking at LC alone without PHP), I put a fresh install of LC Server v7
>on a new DH host and after setting permissions it was up and running
>with just two lines in .htaccess, the AddHandler and the Action defining
>that handler.
>
>Given the prevalence of PHP, I doubt DH's requirements for the upgrade
>involve much work - they'd be overloaded with support requests if they
>didn't give some good thought to backward compatibility with people's
>existing configs.
>
>Normally there's no conflict between any combination of CGIs mentioned
>in .htaccess as long as they don't mix file extensions.
>
>So I'll bet that once we pin this down, we'll have an "a ha!" moment in
>which the solution is simpler than what it may seem right now.
>
>-- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>  ____________________________________________________________________
>  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com
>
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