Faceless Revolution for CGI's

[Vikram Singh]

----- Original Message -----
From: sean nicholas harper <snharper at cs.uchicago.edu>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: Faceless Revolution for CGI's


> I am curious...is it possible to use non faceless stacks as cgis?
>
> Thanks
> Sean
>
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, paolo mazza wrote:
>
> > Referring to the tip of the week - or of the month ;-)   - I found in
> > the metacard list a message from Mr Sivakatirswami  about installing
> > faceless Metacard or Revolution on MAX OSX machine for running CGI's ,
> >
> > Now, I have a question: is this system as efficient as other scripting
> > languages (eg PHP)?
> >
> > Follows instruction   from Mr Sivakatirswami  about installing faceless
> > Metacard or Revolution on MAX OSX machine for running CGI's  plus some
> > corrections.  Thanks Mr Sivakatirswami. . Here it is my version:
> >
> > ============
> >
> > SKINNY PRIMER: installing faceless Metacard or Revolution on your MAX
> > OSX machine for running CGI's on your own machine:
> >
> > 0) Go to system preferences and turn on Web Sharing
> >
> > 1) Download the Darwin engine, untar and put it in:
> > /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables
> >
> > 2) Put your CGI script in the same folder: but, caveat: be sure to save
> > your
> > script in BBEdit as generic text with Unix endlines
> >
> > 3) Using Terminal.app... Navigate to CGI-Executables and then run
> >  >From the command line:
> >
> > chmod 755 darwinEngine myCGIscript.cgi
> >
> > 4) from command line run
> >
> > ls -l to check on your permissions which should now read
> >
> > rwx r-x r-x for both files
> >
> > Which means: owner can read, execute and write, groups can read and
> > write
> > only and the public/world can read and write only.
> >
> > 5) See http://mitchellonline.pasco.k12.fl.us/training/metacardcgi.htm
> >
> > For more detailed explanation (Note his explanation uses Metacard...and
> > fyi
> > you do not need the tools, home stack.. Only the engine is required)
> >
> > 6) in your browser enter
> >
> > http://my.machine.ip/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> >
> > To test.
> >
> > 7) Sample test script below. The first line is critical. It can be
> > either
> >
> > #! /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/darwinEngine ## for clarity
> > on startup
> > put "Hello" into buffer
> >    put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr
> >    put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr
> >    put buffer
> > end startup
> >
> > Or the first line can be simply
> >
> > #!darwinEngine ## no slash at the beginning,
> >
> > If the above works you can skip the following step
> >
> > 8) If you find your script is not always running every time it is
> > called you
> > may need to open  this file in BBEdit by looking for hidden files in the
> > root directory: (very carefully!)
> >
> > /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
> >
> > And uncomment this line:
> >
> >   # AddHandler cgi-script .cgi  [becomes:]
> >
> > AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
> >
> > Go to System preferences and turn web Sharing and off and then on again
> > to
> > reboot Apache to get Apache to load the new httpd.conf
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