Getting a cgi stack call to work

[Richard Miller]

That did it! Thank you very much.
Richard


On Jan 3, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

> The cgi engines are quite old, (pre 2.7), so stacks in 2.7 format  
> can't be read by the cgi engines. If you open your stack "test.rev"  
> and type this in the message box:
>
> set the stackfileVersion to 2.4 ; save stack "Test"
>
> then the stack will be saved in 'legacy' format, and the cgi engine  
> should be able to cope with it.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> On 3 Jan 2008, at 21:19, Richard Miller wrote:
>
>> I'm having problems getting the most simple example of a cgi stack  
>> call to work. This is what I know.
>>
>> I start with a simple file called "test.cgi":
>> ---------------------
>> #!Revolution
>>
>> on startup
>>    global buffer
>>    put "hi there" into buffer
>>    put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr & cr
>>    put buffer
>> end startup
>> ---------------------
>>
>> When I call on this from an html file, it works fine. No problem  
>> at all.
>>
>> Next, I change the above "test.cgi" file to this:
>> ---------------------
>> on startup
>>     start using "test.rev"
>> end startup
>> ---------------------
>>
>> I create a new Rev stack and insert only a stack script as follows:
>> ---------------------
>> on librarystack
>>    global buffer
>>    put "hi there" into buffer
>>    put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr & cr
>>    put buffer
>> end librarystack
>> ---------------------
>>
>> Every time I try to run this, I get a 500 error: Premature End of  
>> Script Headers", and it always tells me the error occurs at the  
>> "start using" line.
>>
>> All the files and the stack have permissions set to 777 (does it  
>> matter if it's 777 or 775?)
>>
>> I'm testing this on an Intel Mac using the built-in server.
>>
>> I've run out of things to look at. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Richard Miller
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