Revolution as CGI in OS X

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/21/04 6:57 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> THanks J.
> 
> But even this below is a bit beyond my understanding at this time. i 
> THINK i know about what you are saying here but I could also be way off 
> in my understanding as well. I am a novice.

Grab the file I mentioned and I think it will all come clear. Basically 
what I was saying is that you need to copy the Rev engine to the server. 
For most operating systems, you can just use a copy of the regular Rev 
application. On OS X though you need a special version of the Rev 
engine. That engine is called the "Darwin" version and it can be 
downloaded from the RR site (there is a URL in my notes.) The Darwin 
engine isn't normally used for anything other than running CGIs on OS X.

There is a "cgi" folder on most servers which is used to hold CGI 
scripts. My notes suggest copying the engine to that folder, though 
technically it doesn't have to go there. If you are just starting out 
though, it's easier to keep it there.

My notes do assume that you know a bit about how CGIs work in general, 
so a little Googling on the subject might help if you've never done this 
stuff before.

The first time you get it working, the "cool factor" is palpable.

> On Apr 21, 2004, at 5:20 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
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>> If you are running Mac OS X as your server, you'll need to download 
>> the Darwin CGI engine from the RR site. You can't just copy the RR OS 
>> X app from your regular distribution. I believe on all other OSs, you 
>> can just move the regular RR app to the CGI folder.
> 
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> Thomas J. McGrath III
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