For those of you not on the MetaCard mailing list, Jacque is responding to my post about getting the MC CGI to work on OS X. Here's my my original post which may be of some help to people looking to get Rev or MC working on OS X as a CGI:
------------------------ OK, I finally got it to work, and I'll be writing up a tip on it right away. :-) But for those taking notes, here's the steps: 1) Turn on Personal Web Sharing in the Sharing control panel (which told me my web address was "http://192.168.1.100/~kenray/";). This creates an index.html file in the Sites folder on your hard drive (in my case it was /users/kenray/Sites/). 2) Download the Darwin MC CGI from the Metacard web site, decompress it down to its "mc" file, and put it into folder /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables. 3) Place your CGI script in the same folder as the "mc" file. Mine is called "simple.cgi", which simply dumps "Hello World" as a result. It looks like this: !#mc on startup put "Hello World!" into tResponse put "Content-Type: text/html" & crlf put "Content-Length:" & the length of tResponse & crlf & crlf put tResponse end startUp 4) Set the permissions on both files to at least 755 (I used 777 (just in case)). 5) Open up Terminal, do "cd /library/webserver/cgi-executables/" to get to the CGI-Executables directory, and execute "./mc simple.cgi". You should get back this: Content-type: text/html Content-length:12 Hello World! 6) Then, open up your browser and type the IP address you were given in the Sharing control panel, followed by "/cgi-bin/simple.cgi". In my case it was: http://192.168.1.100/cgi-bin/simple.cgi You should get "Hello World!" showing up in your browser. As Dave noted, the /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables directory can be referred to as "cgi-bin" in your urls. 7) Create the rest of your site in the Site folder and when you want to refer to the CGI, simply use <IP>/cgi-bin/<script>. Thanks for everyone's help! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > J. Landman Gay > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:47 PM > To: Revolution Mailing List > Subject: Re: Getting MC CGI to work on OS X with "Web > Sharing" turned on > > > On 10/18/03 11:56 AM, Ken Ray wrote: > > > 7) Create the rest of your site in the Site folder and when > you want > > to refer to the CGI, simply use <IP>/cgi-bin/<script>. > > Or you can use "localhost" if you don't want to hard-code an IP: > <http://localhost/cgi-bin/simple.cgi> Saves some trouble if you have dynamic DNS through a router. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
