Can't Get Server Engine to Work on My Mac

[stephen barncard]

I've found the .htaccess method is faster to test and make work, and
doesn't mess with the guts of Apache. I will post what worked for me at
dreamhost. The only downside is that one needs a cgi-bin folder and engine
for each domain.

On 20 April 2012 14:06, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you are indeed using a system that has its conf files for apache in
> /etc/apache2 I think there is a site file in a sub folder there where you
> can adjust things for the main server page.  Also I just remembered there
> are some modules involved here. Inside /etc/apache2 there is a folder that
> has available modules and another with active modules that - like the sites
> folders- if there is a symlink to an available module, that particular
> module is active.  I don't have access to a mac at the moment, but if I get
> my linux box fired up i'll see if I can recall which  module I turned on to
> get things working. Also, if you want index.lc to work as a default (like
> index.html) in one of the files you can set up the directory indexing which
> just specifies which files to load and in what order of precedence if no
> file is specified in the URL.  Hopefully will have my system running by
> this eve, if so i'll post more info about all this.
>
> Also, worst case scenario you might be able to use .htaccess files to get
> things working.  Not sure what is required to do that though so someone
> else would need to chime in.
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Gregory Lypny
> <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>wrote:
>
> > Hi again Mike,
> >
> > Thanks for the advice.  I was able to get the server working, at least
> > partly.  I have the LiveCode executable in the CGI-Executables folder on
> my
> > Mac.  I created the one-line script
> >
> >        put the long date
> >
> > in a file named longDate.lc, and placed it in the Sites folder of my user
> > account.  I was able to run it by entering
> >
> >        http://webSiteAddress/~user/longDate.lc
> >
> > What does not work at the moment is calls to LiveCode from within a web
> > page.  So,
> >
> >         <p>  <?lc  put the long date ?> <p/>
> >
> > does nothing.  I'll keep tinkering.
> >
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Gregory
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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