From: page77.office@...
Date: 2006-01-05T06:42:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie tearing hair out

Many thanks to all who responded.  It turned out that the problem was
that apache was configured to execute cgi scripts, but I did not have
the right first line.

For Windows/DOS the correct first line is

#!  /ruby/bin/ruby.exe
  or wherever your path to ruby is.  The important part is to include
the .exe and use forward slashes /

I can now test my ruby scripts, by having them end in .cgi

I will investigate getting .rb to work based on your help.

Thanks to all - Richard

James Britt wrote:
> Walter Prins wrote:
> > I think you need to configure apache to know that .rb extension files
> > are to be treated as CGI scripts to be run via the Rub interpreter (or
> > module.)  (Note I have no experience with this setup, just limited
> > general experience with this sort of thing with Apache.  )  Basically
> > you want to look into the Apache "ScriptAlias" directive and/or
> > "ExecCGI" option.  See here:
> > http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/1128971
> >
> > Also you need to tell apache to add a handler for .rb files, for this
> > look into AddHandler directive.  See e.g. here:
> > http://www.ricocheting.com/server/cgi.html
> >
>
>
> You'll need something like this in either a .htaccess file in the Web
> app's document root directory, or in the httpd.conf file:
>
>
> <Files ~ "\.(rb|rbx|cgi)$" >
>   SetHandler cgi-script
> </Files>
>
> Options +ExecCGI
> DirectoryIndex   index.cgi index.rb index.html
>
>
> Also note that Apache on Windows can be configured in two different ways
> to execute CGI scripts.  In one approach, it looks at the #! line to
> locate the interpreter,  In the other, it ignores that line and just
> uses whatever app is associated with the file extension of the scripts.
>
>
> James
>
>
>
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