Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

[Mark Smith]

Stephen, I've not run RoR, but I am having no problems running the  
3.0 engine (Linux of course) for cgi on Dreamhost. Does RoR act as  
web-server? Would that mean disabling Apache?

Best,

Mark

On 6 Dec 2008, at 02:05, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> Hello Rev Nation,
>
> I was watching Andre's discussion of Rev On Rockets from the Vegas  
> conferences, and got inspired to give it a go. It seemed so simple.  
> It works great locally on the Mac.
>
> The hosting for me and my friends is Dreamhost, and I was certain  
> that I heard that someone had successfully made it work there. I  
> had saved the earliest ROR code that Andre put out a while ago, and  
> which I tried to unsuccessfully get to work.
>
> Read the docs, placed the 2.9 x86 Linux standalone engine into the  
> cgi-bin folder (after installing the www part of ROR into cgi-bin),  
> set the permissions to 755, renamed Standalone to revolution (lower  
> case), and brought up a browser looking at a subdomain I created  
> for RevHTTP on the web.
>
> I zipped everything and used Terminal to expand  in situ. Also just  
> downloaded the newest version of Andre's code. Same thing.
>
> Errors, errors. It's obvious Rev is not being executed. Did anyone  
> really get it to work at Dreamhost and what were the incantations?  
> Did the aforementioned engine ever work? Will the 3.5 engine work?  
> Should I try to go back in history and get a really old engine?  I  
> thought Rev had fixed this. Searches on the net of old list posts  
> reveal Dan Shafer giving up in desperation and not many success  
> stories.
>
> I'm sure it's me or my something about Dreamhost one or the other.  
> I'm not sure they could help me unless I have some idea of what to do.
>
> This is one of two major gaps I have with rev. The other is getting  
> SQLLite to do anything. (I work with SQL Fat every day....) .. I'm  
> off to watch Trevor's VEGAS 08 talk on just that topic.
>
> thanks,
>
> sqb
>
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> stephen barncard
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