RevCGI Hosts?

[Dave Cragg]

On 19 Feb 2008, at 02:15, Chipp Walters wrote:
> So,
> exactly which version of the Rev engine do I install? I suppose  
> it's a Linux
> one, and I suppose I put it in the cgi-bin folder.

I may just be nervous by nature, but I never put the engine in the  
cgi-bin folder. By my understanding, the http server will try to  
execute anything in the cgi-bin folder that has execute permissions  
set. My worry is whether the server can be coerced into passing  
parameters when it tries to run the engine. (There was a security  
problem in the past with the Perl executable on Windows due to this.)  
While I'm fairly confident Rev is immune from this, why take the risk?

I stick it somewhere like /usr/bin/revbin, and so the top of my  
scripts look like this:

#!/usr/bin/revbin/rev

Cheers
Dave