On Jun 17, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> Resending... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> > Date: Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM > Subject: Re: panopticon: installing whimsy on CentOS > To: labs@labs.apache.org > > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Alan Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: >> I'm using rvm. Seems to be the equivalent of virtualenvs of python. >> >> I installed ruby 1.9.3, rails, wunderbar. > > rvm is fine. > >> Then I set up whimsey according to >> infrastructure/trunk/projects/whimsy/README.openldap. I'm able to get >> individual rb files to execute, e.g. committers.rb. >> >> Now, how do I wire this thing up to Apache httpd? > > If your goal is to get a single file to execute, configure Apache > httpd to run cgi by adding "+ExecCGI" to the Options line for the > desired directory, and "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi". Restart apache, > then install the specific script that you are interested in by running > it passing an --install=<directory> option. > > For example: > > ruby committer.cgi --install=/var/www > > However, that script itself will rely on libraries being installed to > /var/tools and a few member only svn directories being checked out, > which leads to what I would recommend instead. > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/projects/whimsy/vagrant/README > > This will set up everything you need to run committer.cgi in a VM. I > already have most things cached on my machine, so recreating the > entire VM from scratch can be done in as little a two minutes and a > few seconds. Without those caches, it will undoubtedly take longer, > but won't take terribly long and is automated. > > Presumably those instructions could be adapted for CentOS. The actual > recipes can be found here: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/projects/whimsy/vagrant/cookbooks/whimsy/recipes/ > > Admittedly not as readable as prose instructions, but should give you > an idea of what steps to take, and I can help interpret the intent of > the chef scripts if you get stuck. That seems like a lot of work to just set up a web site. All I want to do is to setup a web site so that I know that the patches I want to submit will work correctly. Working on a file by file basis seems a bit too restrictive, but if that's what I gotta do then I'll do it. :) Regards, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org
