Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] help with cgi & macPerl

["Alvy" <alvy@wncmarket.com>]

THANKS all....

I won't get to test all this great advise for a few more hours, (gotta leave
my day job) but i will let ya'll know.
my first task is to get this guy's laptop online to download latest MacPerl,
I have 5.0 but i guess there is a new version....?




----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Smith" <unfeasibly_tall@yahoo.com>
To: <macPerl-webcgi@macperl.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] help with cgi & macPerl


> An important thing to remember when running scripts
> locally is that the file references are all different
> in MacPerl, ie a file referred to as
>
> /rootFolder/subFolder/targetFolder/file.html
>
> will have to be changed to
>
> :rootFolder:subFolder:targetFolder:file.html
>
> I got fed up of changing all my file references when I
> uploaded CGI's to my site, sO I use an AppleScript to
> tell BBEdit to find and replace all the root folder
> refs.
>
> If your CGI is searching your site, it may be affected
> by this anomoly.
>
> Hope that helps a bit.
>
> Richard
>
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>
> --- Alvy <alvy@wncmarket.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have a web site that runs fine on the net, with a
> > search cgi, we now need a portable version of the
> > website to run on a ibook (mac os9).
> > The web site runs file locally on the ibook until
> > the search form cgi is used.
> > I have read and scanned the post archive and found
> > lots (too much ) information.
> > This is what i have done so far.
> > 1. made a folder on the harddrive called "webroot",
> > within that folder are the website and a cgi-bin
> > folder.
> > 2. Turned on Web Shareing, address 10.0.0.0 .
> > Selected the "webroot" as the web folder.
> > 3. Set the TCP/IP setting to AppleTalk(mac IP),
> > configure "using macip manually" IP address
> > "10.0.0.0"
> > 4. Set TCP/IP to active
> > 5. Installed MacPerl
> > 6. Run MacPerl
> > 7. Set the first line of the .cgi file to #!perl
> > 8. open the location (rather than open page) of
> > 10.0.0.0 and i get the web site fine.
> > 9. When i enter a term into the search text box and
> > hit search, after some time i get a page loaded
> > saying "A CGI or internal server componet could not
> > complete the requested action"
> >
> > Does this mean that everything is running ok, but
> > the script is not configured for MacPerl?
> > Or does it mean there are some other things i am
> > missing?
> >
> > I did not want to take up too much space and post
> > the cgi script , however , I could post or send them
> > to anyone for help.
> >
> > Thanks so much for any advise.....
> >
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Alvy
> >
>
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