cgi revisited

[Kevin Miller]

On 28/6/02 1:50 pm, BCE <mark at bcesouth.com> wrote:

> Would anyone care to elaborate a little on using rev as a faceless cgi on OS
> X?  I know that the lastest user tip on the Rev site discusses it, but I
> have 2 questions:
> 
> 1. - Do you name the actual script with an extension? (ie, ".cgi")

You can, but this is optional.

> 2. - If using the Darwin engine, then do you use
> 
> "#!/Library/Webserver/Cgi-Executables/Darwin 2"
> 
> as the opening line of the script?

Yes.

> All I want to do is a simple "Hello World" type of script, just to test this
> out.  It doesn't seem to work as of yet.

Check that the file permissions are set and that you can run the script on
the command line - it should "put" the result back into the terminal.

Kevin

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