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uploading should be ok ....

what is your script suffix?

if it is .r, try to change it to .cgi for a while

Already tried!

does any other, etc. pl or shell script work i cgi directory ....

Btw content of one of file in the interpreters dir:
#!/bin/bash
if [ -z "$REDIRECT_STATUS" ]; then
  echo -e "Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r
<b>Security Alert!</b> The Perl CGI cannot be accessed directly.


<p>This Perl CGI launcher is configured to require a redirect.  This

means that a page will only be served up if the REDIRECT_STATUS CGI 
variable 
is set, e.g. via an Apache Action directive.</p>


<p>For more information as to <i>why</i> this behaviour exists, see 
the <a href=\"http://php.net/security.cgi-bin\"> PHP manual page 
for CGI security</a>.</p>

 else
  export SCRIPT_NAME=${PATH_TRANSLATED##${DOCUMENT_ROOT}}
  
 export SCRIPT_FILENAME=$PATH_TRANSLATED
  /usr/bin/perl 
$SCRIPT_FILENAME"
fi


As newcomer in linux and apache I can only ques what it mean, but 
I am thinking about this line:
 This Perl CGI launcher is ...

ah, then this apache is configured strangely imo .... in Apache httpd.conf, 
you normally specify ScriptAlias for directory, where cgi is going 
to be placed. Then you can always manually set whatever directory, 
to perform cgi action by adding SetHandler cgi-script for specific 
directory .... but then all files in there are regarded being a cgi 
and Apache could try to run them ...

mostly, if you want to perform cgi outside scriptalias location, 
following directive is uncommented - AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

it seems to me, that this apache, if the perl script is right, is 
unnecessarily configured other way, but du not know ...

That web server is hosting and I think that I can not access httpd.conf.
Btw  - where it resides?

The web server service providers told/wrote that it is possible to 
run cgi scripts on this server.

win --> linux: Does your uploaded script have the right line terminations?

I did write file read file.

Before uploading.

janeks, you could try to put .htaccess file into your directory, 
specifying e.g. AddHandler cgi-script .cgi for your directory .... 
it will override httpd.conf settings IF rewriteengine is set to enabled 
...

In which directory exactly?

It looks like I need good link to Apache for begginers...
;-)

try your document root directory ...

Janeks,. I think httpd.conf in in the 'confs' dir. I don't think 
that a normal host allows you access to that though.

surely not ...

Janeks,  here are some things to try:

1. Make sure you uploaded the rebol exe as binary and the rebol script 
as ascii.

2. make sure you chmod your rebol files, rebol and even the cgi-bin 
(755).

Hope that helps. I have seen the same thing as you many times when 
I first set up rebol.

BTW, if i makes you feel any better, I tested your script in my host 
and it works. I'm wondering if the "#!/var/www/cgi-bin/rebol -cs" 
is not actually pointing to the where it should be. Did the hosting 
company give you the exact path?

Thanks all - as always most obvious things are those on which we 
make mistakes.

All was o' k except I changed rebol to rebcore, because I wanted 
also work with Rebol view and ...
... forgot it.
Too much copy & paste.


Well the next question is - if and what else is needed to install 
rebol view for cgi operations?

It even works with .r extension.

nothing, but it might eventually not work ...

it all depends, if such machine has X-Windows installed, or not. 
Mine has not IIRC ....

not sure what dependencies are there ..... there might be some library 
missing, as happened with my Command due to AGG

you can check by issuing: ldd your-rebol-view.exe

Janeks,  I suppose it depends on what you want View to do. You can 
go ahead and put it in your cgi bin but It won't create interactive 
interfaces as you can when you run it locally. You can try the plugin 
for that kind of thing.

What I want is just do some image conversation and to make some human 
control (small image with string on some patern background ...)

I uploaded view but it it does not work - I just see error 500, but 
i think rview is the reason , because I changed in working script 
just first line that points to rebol executable.

Its a pitty - I wanted to add some funcionality above to my home 
page.

Q: Is it possible to add required libs? F.ex. just in the same dir.

not sure where/how view looks for such library ...

Running View as a CGI can be a problem.
I don;t know any solutions to that.

switch to a windows host.  solves that.

ldd rebol-view-executable

 under Linux could tell you what libraries are needed. If that is 
 not much (e.g. one library being dependant upon other etc.), you 
 could try to upload those libraries to where your view executable 
 resides. The question is, what is Linux OS strategy to look for libraries 
 - current dir, some central libraries storage path, elsewhere ...?

configured library path (usually /lib/, /usr/lib/, etc), or the value 
of the env variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

(iirc)

When I tried it, View seemed to want to try to install itself, and 
errored out when it tried to show an installation window. Various 
combinations of command line options were no help. I didnt try using 
old versions of view, or tricking view into thinking its already 
installed.

Let me know if anyone figures this out.

I susoect View may be trying to pop-up an installation window......And 
so that appears on the server's console (if any). meanwhile, you 
wait at the end of an Internet connection unable to see anything.

Possible work-around: manually install whatever files View is trying 
to configure?

I found that in my case on Linux RebViev needs linux-gate.so.1!

I tried to google for "download linux-gate.so.1", but there was a 
lot of links for different things and it seems form me that it is 
included in some installation packgage.

Could some body help with this library  an is it worthwile (will 
RebView takes it from current dit)?

according to Gabriele, Linux might have some default library locations 
... but e.g. I run sqlite as dll, and I point rebol to load the library 
and it loads it from anywhere. The question is, if the same is right 
for executable dependant libraries

what about asking server admin to add the library for you? He just 
could unpack it for you from his distro CD/DVD to the location where 
it belongs ....

Ryan, are you sure that the -i or --noinstall command-line argument 
option does not help ?

or all these ? -csiw

petr, load/library is probably a bit different from what ldd does 
on startup. i suppose ldd wants current dir in the lib path to load 
libs from current dir (same issue as executing programs from current 
dir...)

I asked for mu web service provider to add linux-gate.so.1 to the 
server he did not aprove that he did (actualy I did not get any answer 
yet), but today I found that my test script:

 #!/var/www/cgi-bin/rebview -cs

REBOL [Title: "CGI Basics"]

print ["Content-type: text/html" newline]

print "Heloooooo!!!"

works differently - I am getting following response:

** Near: size-text self

You can check: http://www.jk.serveris.lv/cgi-bin/test

What could it mean?

first guess view may not work without X installed (does not on solaris) 
and there is no good reason to run X on a web server ... and then 
there are all those fiddley fonts

and if you do have X installed the cgi script is likely not run  
from a graphicly aware shell so there may be virtual frame buffers 
involved

It is on Linux!