World: r3wp

yes, /rebol/rebol.exe will not be executed by the web server, unless 
it is specifically configured to do so.

if it's in cgi-bin, maybe i could do something like http://yoursite/cgi-bin/rebol?-s--do delete... 
etc.

hmm, then ice thing is, that when I run http://www.my-domain.com/cgi-bin/rebol
--do "print 123", Apache returns error, stating I have no permission 
to do that. If I run cgi-bin/rebol, my browser does not seem to return, 
so I expect interpreter to run infinitely?

(it shouldn't be that easy, but you get the idea)

hmm, woult there be an option to prepare special version of interpreter, 
using SDK, not allowing to accept any parameters, run only in CGI 
mode?

maybe, but is it really worth it? i don't think anyone would put 
perl in cgi-bin for eg. so why rebol?

because ppl endlessly complain, there are no rebol web-hosts. So 
I thought I might have universal solutoin. Just find yourself web-host, 
which allows cgi scripts, and you are done ...

I don't need it on my server, was trying to help other guys to not 
feel pressed from ISPs

afaik, any host that allows any cgi-bin will also allow you to upload 
rebol somewhere not in cgi-bin and then use it.

Any ISP that gives you FTP access to your account and CGI does provide

access for rebol

ah, so I really don't understand guys' point on ML, complaining that 
web-hosts are REBOL unfriendly. I tried with two, and those had no 
problem uploading rebol for me ...

What I have found to be a problem is accessing MySQL accounts from 
client based rebol scripts. They seem to only allow server based 
access.

amacleod. And how?

With one host, I e.g. have: /home, /www, /tmp, /logs ... should I 
put into /home?

indeed, i think they are just lazy, and want rebol to work out of 
the box. they just have to upload it. it will work with 99% of the 
hosts right away. and the host should be able to easily solve that 
1% case, unless they are morons and only allow php etc. by policy.

yes, /home, maybe /home/bin or something like that. (/home/rebol/... 
would be ok too)

But other hosting my friend has, is just and only his www root ....

Gabriele - exactly my opinion ....

mysql: some hosts only allow socket access and not tcp access to 
mysql (because that's the default config for some distros.) but, 
that's something that they can enable without problems.

I have a rebol view app that I use to acces a MySQL database. I had 
it working  and then ,y ISP decided to add security and no longer 
allow MySQL access unless its a script on the server. Ofcourse they 
did not inform me and it took some time to track down the problem..

That is why I was trying to suggest to rename rebol to some AAAAAAABBBBBBBCCCC 
name, unpredictable, so it will get hardly noticed, even if someone 
would try ... (unless you do some bug and your shabang line gets 
reported back to browser :-)

www root - well, you can put in www but outside cgi-bin, so it can 
be downloaded but not executed. or, worst case, hopefully they allow 
you to put a .htaccess to deny access to rebol itself.

At least that was the explanation I was given...\

OK, I feel I miss knowledge on Unix permissions. So if cgi-bin dir 
as a whole has execute bit, everything in there can be executed? 
Hmm, and don't I need execute bit for rebol itself, even if put into 
other directory?

it's not execute bit of the dir, and it has not much to do with unix 
permissions, it's web server config. normally, web server will only 
execute things from cgi-bin and not somewhere else.

eg. in apache you have ScriptAlias directive to tell it where to 
allow executables.

aha, ok ... so, if I put REBOL into other dir, even if it has execute 
bit in order to be runnable, Apache will not run it, as directive 
for the directory does not allow that, right?

exactly.

but then it will be probably downloadable :-) www.domain.com/some-other-dir/rebol

but maybe it could be prevented to be seen by setting some .httaccess 
option ...

yes, it will be downloadable unless you deny it with htaccess, but 
that's usually not a big problem.

Petr;  DON'T  :)  Suggesting that people try and sneak REBOL past 
sysadmins is a really really really bad idea.  If they can't be convinced 
to try it, then change ISP, or try to convinvce them again.  Don't 
be making REBOL look all cracky.   That is the kind of maneuver that 
could sink the ship.  The rest of us like the ship, and we fly the 
flag of peace and truth, not the Jolly Roger.  :)

My uplink speed kinda (no, it pretty much completely) sucks but I 
offer free hosting to any rebol that wants it at peoplecards.ca. 
 I just ask for patience if a new service needs to be installed while 
I work out kinks and the user needs to know that it's home based 
with a not-so-speedy delivery pipe and I offer little in the way 
of frills; meaning it's sftp or ssh cli, not cPanel or other gui.

We fly the flag of peace and truth
.. hummed to the tune of "God bless America"

Don't forget the great big smiley...

Is that the tune that  sounds like "God Save The King?"'   If there's 
a sugar maple blight, 'The Maple Leaf Forever' will sound lame ... 
and they'll never see the Eastern Townships annexed by Vermont.  
'CGI'  does stand for 'Chat Gateway Interfarce' doesn't it ?

Anybody noticed CGI is back as a programming model?

Let me explian.... (the PITL in user.r reminded me to post this)....

First - do not virtualize OSes

1) Think multicore
2) think memory is cheap (2Gb per core)
3) Typically,  /Core  consumes 8 mb of memory

4) do not encap, use  amodule management system like my 'require 
or Ladislav's 'include

5) wrt 3 and 4: the OS starts using its disk cache etc. After a few 
hits these operations will be cheap

6) do all session mgt etc in a database => sales up as well, no state, 
share nothing

Now, what happens? The OS will start distributing the CGI processes 
over the multiple cores. Using the disk cache etc to speed loading 
times, enough memory per core on the processor. A 8Gb RAM quadcore 
should be able to run +- 1000 procs/sec (rough estimate). That's 
just one box, with that load it should be profitable. And as you 
obey rule 6, you can scale up and load balance pretty easily.

Winding down: Apache CGI with RSP is pretty good these days. If you 
combine:
- module management
- logging
- error handling
- session management
- database protocol (mysql://)
- CGI params handling

you can "just work".

not virtualising OS this days is imo a mistake, no? :-)

depends on what you gain

Are you sure OS distributes CGI processes to different Cores? Is 
e.g. Apache working that way?

If they are separate processes, the OS should balance over cores.

Gregg: really? I thought that the reason why R3 will use threads 
for tasking instead of tasks is, that OS can better balance threads? 
Anyway, those questions are for gurus, I can only wonder :-)

Threads are much lighter, but not as separate. I don't know details 
though. On a dual core with hyper-threading on, spawning multiple 
processes, I can see the load is spread.

petr, the processes are managed by the OS too. *obviously* the os 
will distribute processes among processors. (unless the os has no 
multiprocessor support, that is). distributing threads is more difficult 
(because of the shared memory), however all good threading implementations 
should do it, and if you programs the threads correctly you can get 
the performance boost.