Good stuff, Phil.
Phil's instructions for DreamHost are similar to what you'd need for
Tierra.Net, which offers similarly priced packages.
Tierra.Net maintains a server farm preconfigured for use with the
Revolution engine (ask for "server farm 2").
Tierra.Net runs BSD, so you'd need the BSD engine:
<http://downloads.runrev.com/revolution/engines/2.2.1/Bsd.gz>
You can decompress .gz files with Rev's decompress command. I have a
gZipper utility in RevNet (see Tools->Plugins->GoRevNet).
After you decompress the engine, just upload it to the cgi-bin folder
and set the permissions to 755 as you would for any executable.
Once it's in place you can test it with this simple script -- put this
in a text file named "test.mt" into your cgi-bin:
#!/usr/home/fourthworld.net/htdocs/cgi-bin/mc
on startup
put "Content-Type: text/html" & crlf &\
"Content-Length:"&& length("Hello") & crlf & crlf
put "Hello"
end startup
Upload the script and set the permissions for test.mt to 755.
Then call it from your browser:
http://<domain>/cgi-bin/test.mt
You'll see the world "Hello" returned -- and that means you're in business!
I've been using Tierra.Net for about five years now ever since a client
turned me on the them. In addition to the fastest FTP handshake I've
seen yet they also have an unusually sound business model which offers
the support benefits of a small company but all of the solid
infrastructure of the biggest hosting firms (multiple redundant T3s,
on-site generator, nightly backup, 24/7 support, convenient control
panel, etc.).
The support team was very amendable to setting up their servers for Rev
use, and the dozen or so domains I have there (including revJournal.com)
have been running smoothly since I started.
For some great info on CGI use, Jacque maintains an excellent
introductory tutorial on using Rev as a CGI at:
<http://hyperactivesw.com/cgitutorial/index.html>
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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