From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-01-04T21:04:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie tearing hair out

You'll need to do some searching for how to sertup CGI to execute Ruby
scripts (you probably beed to install mod_ruby). This does not come
with Instant Rails, which is designed specifically to run Rails web
apps via SCGI.

Curt

On 1/4/06, page77.office@googlemail.com <page77.office@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> dsymonds@gmail.com wrote:
> > page77.off...@googlemail.com wrote:
> >
> > > So to my problem.  I have created a 'helloworld' web page and called it
> > > 'testcgi.rb'. I have put it in various directories, but whenever I try
> > > to execute it as a web page on my localhost - it just prints out the
> > > contents.  I look at httpd.conf and tremble, although I am not sure
> > > which is the right one.  I have installed 'instantrails' under
> > > c:\rubyrail
> > >
> > > Contents of testcgi.rb
> >
> > Chances are it just needs to be called "testcgi.cgi" (i.e. using the
> > .cgi extension). This would be an Apache setup aspect.
> >
> > The code is fine, by the way, though standards-wise you'd be better
> > using "\r\n\r\n" to end the HTTP headers, not just "\n\n".
> >
> >
> > Dave.
>
> Thanks for the tip.  I have had it called testcgi.cgi and I just get it
> printed out, not executed.
>
> Richard
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