Andre had the same problem helping me to try to use the top-level cgi folder at Dreamhost. I'd love to make it work, maintaining a Livecode instance for every domain and the same server account is a pain.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:01 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 4/10/13 11:39 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > >> Jacque- >> >> Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 8:08:41 PM, you wrote: >> >> But I do only want to read from it. I think you're right that >>> permissions won't allow remote reading, otherwise anyone could read the >>> scripts in there. >>> >> >> I was gonna suggest that, except you said the scripts have been >> working for years. I wouldn't put anything like that into the cgi-bin >> folder, since I think browsers don't by design have access to it >> unless you really screw up the permissions. >> >> > No browsers are involved. It's kind of a long story, and couple of things > got conflated in the confusion. My cgi scripts have been working for years, > and they read/write to a log file that lives in the main cgi folder. > Someone with the same server issues I had asked me why his logging script > was failing. I didn't want to test with my main logging script, which is > doing some real business, so I wrote that test script and it failed. I > assumed my real one was failing too, but it turned out my test had a > missing carriage return. > > Also, the person wants to retrieve his log file using a "get url" command > in a button in a stack. I've been doing that for ages, and it still does > work for me, with one difference: the file I retrieve is in a cgi folder in > a subdomain. So I tried to get a text file from the main cgi folder > instead, and it does fail there. I'm wondering why I can access a file from > a subdomain cgi-bin but not from the master cgi-bin. > > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode