Re: setting up perl

[eyang@xxxxxxxxx (Eric Yang)]

On Dec 3, 2003, at 8:11 AM, superdad@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> OK, did what you said. Ran into some problems.
> 1. when setting permissions I chose www as owner and permissions to 
> be "read and write", I've seen directions in some perl scripts that 
> use "read and execute", any problem here?

It should be Read and Execute.  Read and write does not allow the 
server to run the script as executable.  Sorry, the Finder Get Info 
does not set permission for Executable.  Therefore you must change 
the script with Terminal chmod command.  Sorry about the miss 
information earlier.

> 2. Went into admin(itools). to mime section handler. clicked on 
> "new" added"perl-script" ext pl. Hit save. Checked status saw Apache 
> down, clicked restart---it would not restart until I restarted the 
> whole machine. Went back to mime to check what I had done. I now see 
> in handler "type-map" (which was the original and only handler with 
> a suffix of var) that now has a ext of "pl". Try as I may I cannot 
> change that back to "var". When I mess with it apache shuts off and 
> cannot restart from the admin. I must restart the machine. This is a 
> production machine and some clients have already noticed the 
> downtime. How can I get my changes to stick? I am using itools 7.1.

mod_perl will require you to use "sudo apachectl restart" or reboot 
the machine to restart the web server on 10.2 machines.  This has 
been fixed on 10.3.  Try to remove type-map, click Save, then add 
type-map and var back, as well as per-script and pl.

> 3. What, if any of this can be done remotely?

Yes.  Simply add in Mime type like you did to custom extension.

> 4 In creating the form the post agruement must be used and pointed 
> to the pl script.
> Should that script be located in the cgi-executables folder in 
> Itools or can it be in the home directory of the website, cgi 
> folder? And then how should it be referred to in the web form page?

If a folder is defined in Access Control section with Option Execute 
CGI Scripts enabled, then you can use it as CGI-Executables folder. 
For example, the site folder is located in 
/Library/Tenon/WebServer/WebSites/www.example.com and you create a 
sub-folder scripts.  Then enable Execute CGI Scripts for 
/Library/Tenon/WebServer/WebSites/www.example.com/scripts would allow 
you to execute CGI scripts.  The url can be access as 
http://www.example.com/scripts/scriptname.pl, if you have 
scriptname.pl in scripts folder.

> 5 should I have a cgi-bin folder in each site with the script or an 
> alias in it?

Independent cgi-bin folder is probably better.  You need to setup 
ExecCGI option in Access Control for each folder.  This is because if 
all the cgi-script are in one folder, then all virtual hosts would 
have access to the same set of cgi-scripts.

regards,
Eric

> Things were so much easier in OS9, although page serving was so much slower.
> > On Dec 2, 2003, at 6:14 PM, Alex Solomotis wrote:
> >
> > > Questions;
> > > 1. What is the correct path to perl/ standard itools install?
> >
> > /Library/Tenon/Perl/Executables/perl
> >
> > > 2. Can I set permission in "get info" instead of terminal and
> > > chimoding things?
> > > I have turned on the perl module in admin...but I think I have to set
> > > mime.
> >
> > Yes, you can set permission using "Get Info" of the Finder.
> >
> > > 3 What is the correct type for .pl. I also don't see .cgi in the
> > > suffix section.
> >
> > perl-script (If mod_perl is enabled) or cgi-script.
> >
> > > 4. Should I turn my cgi perl script (pl) into ,cgi suffix and map to
> > > perl?
> >
> > If you just want to use them as CGI script then, then you can use .cgi
> > extension.  If you want really fast response, then use mod_perl and set
> > .pl to perl-script handler.  Note, mod_perl comes with other problems.
> > i.e. Perl scripts can not be modified while it's already pre-cached.
> > Apache needs to be restarted each time that you change the perl
> > scripts.
> >
> > regards,
> > Eric
> >
> > > The manual is only lightly helpful in this secttion.
> > > Regards all,
> > > Alex
> ---------
> Tenon Intersystems' iTools Mailing List
> To unsubscribe: send mail to
> itools-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> with the body only containing:
> unsubscribe
> Find the searchable mailing list archives
> at:
> http://itools.blackpepper.co.nz/

---------
Tenon Intersystems' iTools Mailing List
To unsubscribe: send mail to itools-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with the body only containing: unsubscribe
Find the searchable mailing list archives at:
http://itools.blackpepper.co.nz/