LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

[Graham Samuel]

HI Peter

Thanks for the lightning reply!

A quick check on the DreamHost Knowledge Base doesn’t answer the question, so I’ve had  to generate a ticket in their support system. A lot of LC people use DreamHost, and as I say it was kind of working until I foolishly binned my 7 series version in favour of 8.1.

What scares me is having to do command-line stuff on an OS I know absolutely nothing about. The instructions and installation notes I’ve read so far don’t work for someone with that particular phobia.

Cheers

Graham

> On 14 Sep 2016, at 18:08, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com> wrote:
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> 
> 
> On 14/09/2016 16:57, Graham Samuel wrote:
>> I admit to knowing nothing at all about Linux. I am using Jacque’s Zygodact product running as a CGI as part of a website which is hosted by DreamHost - this is to sell a product via FastSpring. Matthias Rebbe has very generously explained how to do this (I mean how to set up the selling of a download product via FastSpring using Zygodact to get the license codes). I **almost** got it working (it actually did work for one out of two products) when I noticed that the version of LiveCode Server I was using was one of the LC7 series, so I decided to update it.
>> 
>> Now nothing works, and the instructions on the LiveCode site don’t seem to apply to me at all - they seem to imply that I have full control of Apache on DreamHost, but I don’t. All I’ve got is my own modest web presence, a CGI folder and so on. I tried simply replacing the old LC Server folder with the new one, but that seems to have no effect at all. I can’t run a test program (test.lc or whatever) from a browser, and the tests which were working on the FastSpring site - which call LC programs on the server - now don’t work at all.
>> 
>> Obviously I have made a massive error, but what is it? I just want to be able to run some .lc programs on the server - it doesn’t seem much to ask.
>> 
>> In over my head and seeking any advice.
>> 
> 
> Hi Graham,
> 
> What version of Linux is your server running?  LiveCode 8.1 server is expected to run on:
> 
> - CentOS 7
> - Debian 7 (wheezy)
> - Debian 8 (jessie)
> - Ubuntu 14.04
> - Ubuntu 16.04
> - Fedora 23
> - Fedora 24
> 
>                                       Peter
> 
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> LiveCode Technical Project Manager
> 
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