On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Despite having an On-Rev account, I'd like to get revServer running on a
> machine at work but I don't understand the configuration instructions I found
> on rev Lessons. Under the Overview section, am I supposed to set
> REVSERVER_HOME to some path? Where is this variable set and where does it
> reside? This is followed by the CGI-When-You-Have-Access-to-Apache section,
> which I presumably do on my Mac, but it doesn't say how to create a handler
> to do the mapping that is required. It also states parenthetically that this
> is not best practice (but not why), although there doesn't appear to be a
> section that describes what would be better practice.
>
> Is there a revServer Configuration for Dummies document out there?
Gregory,
I struggled at first, too. But finally got it to work. Note I am working on OS
X Server, so if you are not, the specifics may vary.
Mike's instructions seem very good; I'll just add my own notes, which I typed
up for myself to remind me the next time I have to do this. Hopefully, between
Mike and me you'll get it working.
DNA Notes - June 17, 2010
My first test was to enable revServer only for a specific site. At first I had
lots of trouble, and I kept messing with the directives for the site to try to
fix them. I finally ended up copying Mark's example directives directly into my
site config file. The real problem turned out to be the directory issue,
described below.
I got this to work after some fiddling. The main problem was I had copied the
whole revserver folder into the cgi-bin folder, which meant there was an extra
directory intervening and breaking the path resolution. Once I moved the
revserver binary and the folders directly into cgi-bin it worked.
June 22, 2010
In order to enable irev scripting for all sites on the server I modified
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf as follows:
AddHandler type-map var
AddHandler irev-script irev ## (added line)
Action irev-script /cgi-bin/revserver/revserver ## (added line)
AddType application/andrew-inset ez
...
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
# (stuff omitted here for brevity)
#### For Mac OS X Server: Uncomment this line to enable web-based
#### configuration of mailman:
##
# Include /etc/apache2/httpd_mailman.conf
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
# Allow convenient access to Apache manual
AliasMatch
^/manual(?:/(?:de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|pt-br|ru))?(/.*)?$
"/Library/WebServer/share/httpd/manual$1"
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/share/httpd/manual">
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
<Files *.html>
SetHandler type-map
</Files>
SetEnvIf Request_URI
^/manual/(de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|pt-br|ru)/ prefer-language=$1
RedirectMatch 301
^/manual(?:/(de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|pt-br|ru)){2,}(/.*)?$ /manual/$1$2
LanguagePriority en de es fr ja ko pt-br ru
ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
</Directory>
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
#### DNA: Since I keep my web server root at a different location than
the default one, I had to comment out existing ScriptAlias, and add the two
following
# ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /Volumes/ServerHD2/WebServer/CGI-Executables/
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/revserver
/Volumes/ServerHD2/WebServer/CGI-Executables/revserver
</IfModule>
# (end quote from httpd.conf)
July 20, 2010
Note: After I ran a system software update from Apple, my revServer stuff
stopped working. I discovered that Apple's update modified httpd.conf,
uncommenting the first ScriptAlias line. Once I reestablished my ScriptAlias
line, and restarted apache, it worked again.
HTH
Regards,
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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