From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <nick@...>
Date: 2004-12-01T14:13:16+09:00
Subject: Re: 500 internal error on apache

Glad to help.

I'd recommend checking out #ruby-lang and #rubyonrails IRC groups. Great 
for immediate feedback/help.

Nick

coke wrote:

>Very helpfull, thanks
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>On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:56:12 +0900, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
><nick@activehitconsulting.com> wrote:
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>>Since you mention being new to cgi, and have doning some php, I'm
>>guessing you aren't using the ruby script in the right directory, or
>>using the right url to call it, or are missing some boilerplate.
>>
>>Ruby and php are not directly equivalent. If you've only installed
>>ruby,  you need to put the ruby script into your cgi-bin directory,
>>since cgi is how you would call it.
>>
>>e.g.
>>http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.rb
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>>would be the right url for a file in the apache cgi-bin directory.
>>
>>Also, you may need to put some http boilerplate.
>>test.rb
>>======
>>#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
>>print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
>>print "hello"
>>
>>On Apache on OS X, I need the second line for it to work. The first line
>>is Unix specific, and won't apply to Windows.
>>
>>There is also a cgi module to help with many common cgi tasks that you
>>can look at.
>>
>>If you want to use ruby in the same way as Php, you need to install
>>mod_ruby and eruby:
>>    http://www.modruby.net/en/
>>
>>Then you can create files like index.rhtml, and use embedded ruby code,
>>much like how php works. This may be your best starting point if you
>>like the php method.
>>
>>Or install a web framework like rails, iowa, arrow, etc, and follow
>>their conventions.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Nick
>>
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>>coke wrote:
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>>>I'm very new to cgi and have no background of programming other than a
>>>little php editing and that's it.After seeing hugh's message I went
>>>back to the test script and looked for typos and surly there was one.I
>>>corrected the typo and everything worked fine,thanks for the replys.
>>>
>>>
>>>On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:37:56 +0900, Neil Stevens <neil@hakubi.us> wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 02:53:24 +0900, coke wrote:
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>>>>>I came across Ruby about 33 hours and decided to take it up.I have
>>>>>exp. with apache,php and such but no cgi,perl or anything close to
>>>>>ruby.I've configured my apache(ver. 1.3.31) for ruby.When I type the
>>>>>address of the .rb file into my broswer I get an 500 Internal error,I
>>>>>have no clue and can't find anything on it.
>>>>>
>>>>>Specs:
>>>>>Windows 98
>>>>>Apache 1.3.31
>>>>>Ruby 1.8
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Check your Apache error log after seeing the 500 error to see what's wrong
>>>>with the ruby you're attempting to run.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us
>>>>"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who
>>>>are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
>>>>                                                -- Albert Einstein(?)
>>>>
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