kneejerk newbie question

[tom]

Hi guys,



with both newlisp wiki and blog, with each directory under apache's document root, I get a plain text version of index.cgi.  Do I have to configure apache in some way?



Everything works under the newlisp httpd server...



Thanks.

[Lutz]

yes, you have to configure apache to use the cgi extension for scripts



---- from apache httpd.conf ---------------

# To use CGI scripts:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

-----------------------------------------------



mine enables perl .pl and .cgi files for scripts (newlisp in my case). The first line in every scrpt file must point to the right program, i.e.:



#!/usr/bin/newlisp



also make sure that all cgi files have executable permission, typically you do:



chmod 755 *.cgi



to get:



-rwxr-xr-x



for all cgi files



On unix also make sure that all lines in the scripts are terminated with line feeds only not carriagereturn-linefeed as on Windows. All files are shipped correctly for Linux/Unix and should run on both.



Lutz

[tom]

thanks, I should have known better.  I've always executed cgi's the ScriptAlias directory.  Oh, I also needed to add



execCGI



to the options line.



I'm brand new to newlisp.  I'll try to think just a little before I post!

:-)



Thanks again.

[Lutz]

>>> I'm brand new to newlisp.



Welcome to the group Tom, everybody was a newbee to newLISP at one time, that's why it's called 'new'(bee)LISP ;), but I think your problem is rather a Apache config task, let us know how it goes.



Lutz

[tom]

I'm up and running. :-)



the two tweaks to httpd.conf, plus fixing a dependancy problem (easy fix) did the trick.