It gets a lot of folks. Glad it worked out. Dan
On 12/17/06, Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you, Dan. That's the problem. And now you've reminded me, I remember that it caught me out before... Thanks again. Mark On 18 Dec 2006, at 01:07, Dan Shafer wrote: > Mark, > > Any of several things could cause what you're seeing. My first > guess in such > situations is always that the line endings in the file you create in > TextEdit are not set to Unix-style line endings but are rather Mac > line > endings. That's one of many reasons I use BBEdit for such files > rather than > TextEdit. I assume you have TextEdit set to create text rather than > RTF but > even if you do, I think TextEdit does not normally produce Unix- > style line > endings. > > If that's not the problem, post a reply and we can do some further > detective > work. > > Dan > > On 12/17/06, Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm trying make a really simple text-file cgi (on OS X)., which I've >> done in the past without difficulty. >> >> I create a new document in textEdit. I copy the script from >> "echo.mt" (the script that comes with the Rev installation, I think) >> into my new textEdit document. >> I save it as "hello.mt". in the CGI-Executables folder. I chmod it's >> permissions to 755. >> >> I type "http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.mt"; into the Safari URL field. >> I get "Internal Server Error". >> I type "http://localhost/cgi-bin/echo.mt"; into Safari URL field. I >> get the expected listing of globals. >> >> When I get "the detailed files" from the CGI-Executables folder, I >> can see that the permissions for "hello.mt" are indeed 755. >> >> So, I simply duplicate the "echo.mt" file, and rename it to >> "hello.mt". >> I type "http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.mt"; into the Safari URL field. >> I get the expected listing of globals. >> >> I am now completely baffled. What have I missed out? >> Can anyone shed some light? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mark >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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