Aliases in cgis

[J. Landman Gay]

I have a MetaCard cgi script on my local network (OS X) that puts a stack in use. It works fine as long as the stack is in the CGI-Executables folder. What I want to do is keep the stack outside the cgi folder but still readable by the cgi script, so that the data returned by the script is always current with the stack in my user folder.

I set the permissions for the stack in my user folder to 755. I tried putting the long path to the stack into the script but it didn't work (but maybe I got the path wrong.) I tried putting a Mac alias made in the Finder into the cgi folder, as well as a unix-type aliases made in Terminal. Neither of those worked either. I set the http.config file for my user name to include "useSymLinks" in the options line (though I don't think that file is consulted,) and the Mac http.config file already includes it.

Is it possible to do what I want, and if so, can someone give idiot-proof directions?

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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