Livecode server at Dreamhost

Thomas von Fintel runrev at vonfintel.org
Wed Jul 15 01:56:34 EDT 2015


Thanks a lot!

What I missed was the part of having different htaccess files in root and cgi directory.

Thomas


Am 14.07.2015 um 21:47 schrieb stephen barncard:

> sorry, I should have responded earlier.
> 
> you should not have to put any scripts into the cgi folder, and they would
> not be usable from web pages.
> 
> in my configuration, I've used TWO .htaccess files
> 
> this one at domain root (top of web space)
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Options +ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
> AddHandler livecode-script .lc .irev
> DirectoryIndex index.irev index.lc index.php index.html
> Action livecode-script /cgi-bin/livecode-server/livecode-server
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> this one inside the cgi-bin directory
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Options ExecCGI
> SetHandler cgi-script
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> permissions must be set in a certain way and downloaded zips may not be
> when extracted.
> this works for me at Dreamhost. Note that this allows PHP and Livecode
> scripts to co-exist, just use the appropriate suffix and code according to
> the languages' requirements.
> 
> LIVECODE SERVER PERMISSIONS THAT WORK AT DREAMHOST
> <http://media.barncard.com/downloads/LIVECODE_SERVER_SETUP.pdf>
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words
> 
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Thomas von Fintel <runrev at vonfintel.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Fiddling with things I finally found a solution.
>> 
>> In case someone is interested, the new setup is (The numbers in brackets
>> show permissions):
>> 
>> |- cgi-bin (775)
>>   |- .htaccess (644)
>>   |- test.lc (644)
>>   |- livecode-community-server.cgi (775)
>>   |- drivers (755)
>>       |- ... (664)
>>   |- externals (775)
>>       |- ... (664)
>> 
>> The .htaccess now contains:
>> 
>> AddHandler livecode-script .lc
>> Action livecode-script /cgi-bin/livecode-community-server.cgi
>> 
>> Now http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/test.lc returns the right output of
>> test.lc
>> This works with livecode-community-server 7.0.5
>> 
>> I didn't try every combination, but it seems I had to change three things:
>> 
>> 1. Put a ".cgi" after the engines name, change the .htaccess file
>> accordingly.
>> 2. Put the script test.lc into the cgi-bin folder.
>> 3. Drop the first line of the .htaccess file
>> 
>> 
>> Is it necessary to put the script into the cgi-bin folder? How can you put
>> it into another folder to avoid clutter?
>> I wonder ...
>> 
>> Thomas
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Am 13.07.2015 um 09:40 schrieb Thomas von Fintel:
>> 
>>> I have a working playground site on nosupportlinuxhosting.com that I
>> want to transfer to a Dreamhost account.
>>> The setup is:
>>> 
>>> |- lc
>>> |- test.lc
>>> |- .htaccess
>>> |- cgi-bin
>>> |- livecode-community-server
>>> |- drivers
>>>   |- ...
>>> |- externals
>>>   |- ...
>>> 
>>> The .htaccess contains:
>>> Options +ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
>>> AddHandler livecode-script .lc
>>> Action livecode-script /cgi-bin/livecode-community-server
>>> 
>>> Permissions have been checked more than once.
>>> 
>>> I tried 64-bit and 32-bit versions of the server.
>>> 
>>> All I get is:
>>> "Not Found
>>> The requested URL /cgi-bin/livecode-community-server/lc/test.lc was not
>> found on this server.
>>> 
>>> Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use
>> an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
>>> 
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any hints
>>> Thomas
>>> 
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