Save Stack Problem

Kenji Kojima index at kenjikojima.com
Tue Aug 3 16:23:04 EDT 2004


Jan
I will try.

Thanks,
--
Kenji Kojima
http://www.kenjikojima.com/


On Aug 3, 2004, at 4:18 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> --- Kenji Kojima <index at kenjikojima.com> wrote:
>> Brian,
>> Thanks, your advices.
>>
>> It does not work on Mac OSX, but works on Windows.
>>
>> I made a new stack and put it into the
>> CGI-Executables folder. And
>> tried CGI script, but did not work.
>> How can I make grant write access to the
>> CGI-Executables folder? I
>> wanted to make a address book which was written from
>> Web browser.
>>
>> I installed same CGI script and a stack onto Windows
>> XP and Apache 2
>> server.
>> I changed only one line that was:
>> #! C:/Apache Group/apache2/bin/revolution.exe
>> And did not set permissions of the stack.
>> It worked.
>>
>> I want to use Mac OSX, because Windows server is not
>> mine.
>> Can anybody explain why I cannot save a stack on Mac
>> OSX?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Kenji Kojima
>>
>
> Hi Kenji,
>
> It is probably working on Windows because Windows is
> not as strict as MacOSX when it comes to permissions.
>
> The reason it fails at the point of making a backup
> file, is that when the engine saves a stack, it first
> makes a copy of the original stack, so that if
> corruption occurs, you can retrieve your last saved
> version from thart backup file.
> But if the engine doesn't have the right to write
> files in the directory where the stack resides, it
> cannot create the backup.
>
> It is strongly recommended not to give write access to
> (a folder in) the cgi-excecutables folder. It is best
> to keep the data stack in a separate folder that isn't
> shared with the rest of the world, and set the right
> owner and permissions.
>
> You cazn do this from the Finder using the 'Get Info'
> item in the 'File' menu. In this window you will see a
> section 'Owner & Privileges' where you can change the
> owner (if you happen to be the administrator of the
> machine)
>
> If my memory serves me well, you'll want to set the
> owner to the internal 'www' user, which is what the
> web server process Apache is running as.
>
> Hope this helped,
>
> Jan Schenkel.
>
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