Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost -FOLLOW UP

[Andre Garzia]

Stephen,

Yes, I use TextMate and Interarchy. I am uploading a new "*ALPHA*"
copy of RevOnRockets to the web today with the patches and some brand
new stuff. As for the presentation, don't blame the video guys. IIRC
my machine stopped recording the screen and we lost the screen video
(it failed silent argh!)

I'll post some more news shortly.

Om Shanti
andre

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Stephen Barncard
<stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
> As promised, I'm here to report SUCCESS. All the words of wisdom from those
> of you who have responded have paid off. It appears to be my 'afternoon of
> assumptions' in which the inter-dependent factors and lack of meaningful
> error messages I'm allowed to see, conspired to work against me in my quest
> for rev on the web.
>
>        1st mistake.    Assuming that ROR had the -ui on each script file.
>
>  I <thought> I saw that on a few cgi files I checked in ROR. Not true. The
> very first one, hello world was missing the all important -ui parameter at
> the top. So the correct startup should begin with
>
>
>                         #!./revolution  -ui
>
> on each cgi file. Strange that this important element was left out in the
> ROR package, and it was quite emphasized by Andre to be very important.
>
>
>
> In my case it seems to be fine with an even shorter top line:
>
>
>                         #!revolution -ui
>
>         2nd mistake.   Assuming that all the permissions are set.
> I went over and over again with the Transmit tool and set the permissions of
> everybody to 755. For some reason it didn't stick. I feel like an idiot.
>
> Of course the tech support guy kindly pointed me to the Wickipedia entry for
>  chmod in his response, complete with a dump of all the unchanged
> permissions in the directory. I'm still waiting to hear from him how I can
> get better error messages using rev.
>
>
>     3rd mistake.  Assuming that the cgi files in ROR have the right line
> endings.
>
>  Damn! I really trusted BBEdit to 'know' what to do when saving back to the
> server after editing.    Obviously that didn't work. The line endings to a
> Linux server need to be LF only.
>
>
>  I also assumed the zip package was 'ready to go' in the Linux environment
> and I carefully FTPd the downloaded zip directly to a remote web folder,
> then used the shell to go in and unzip, rather than expanding on the Mac
> desktop (where it was zipped) and using a good FTP client to upload, the
> line endings would be automatically handled (perhaps Andre even warned about
> this in his presentation).
> This is an old habit from installing web apps like Joomla and Gallery. I
> usually  try to expand on the server end. Less time to upload and
> theoretically less things to go wrong; a package  created in situ.
>
> Andre, if I guess right, used stuffit on his local mac to make the zip file.
> And tested it of course by opening it up in a folder, and dropping the files
> into the excellent Interarchy which of course will handle line endings
> invisibly.
>
> in the BBEdit prefs panel:  Text Files :
>
> 1. set the checkbox "Translate line breaks" to TRUE (checked)
> 2. set the default line breaks to UNIX (LF)
>
> One of the main reasons I bought the Vegas Video pack was to see Andre
> deliver his lesson. What wonderful energy and brilliant ideas. I sure wish
> the video guys could have included screen shots at the presentation screen
> on the ROR  presentation though.  Kinda sad, since we have so much
> technology about. It really hard to watch anyone standing there with
> absolutely no breaks in the scene and at the same time  not see the stuff
> he's talking about.    I'm glad to have something, but ....
>
> anyway, I got Rev on the web, rev on the web....
>
>
> --
>
>
> stephen barncard
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