Rebol/view as a CGI app

Hello Mat, Firstly sorry for not changing the subject. MB> I'm trying to get Rebol to work with Xitami. Turns out what I was doing wrong was trying to use Rebol/view. This just doesn't work at all. Rebol/core does of course. However I needed the shall command so I've had to use the ancient Rebol/command I have. I assume this is desired behavior and --cgi is disabled on Rebol/view in some unfathomable marketing/product positioning decision? Regards, Mat Bettinson Codeplay Tel: +44 (0)20 7482 3382 140-142 Kentish Town Rd, London, NW1 9QB http://www.codeplay.com

> MB> I'm trying to get Rebol to work with Xitami. > > Turns out what I was doing wrong was trying to use Rebol/view. This just

> I assume this is desired behavior and --cgi is disabled on Rebol/view in

Hi Andrew, AM> I think there's something wrong with your computer or rebol installation. AM> I'm using Xitami and Rebol/View on Windows XP with no problems at all. AM> Here's the line I use in my Rebol scripts: AM> #! c:\Rebol\View\rebol.exe -cs AM> If that doesn't help, try again? I've literally been switching out the above with #!C:\Rebol\rebolcmd.exe --cgi -s (The switches taken from an actual example in the manual) This line works, so does the regular Rebol/core (just rebol.exe) but View does not. It gets launched but never actually does anything and eventually Xitami terminates it. Regards, Mat.

Hi, Matt. It sounds like your rebol installation is bad. I think that Rebol/View doesn't like being called %rebolcmd.exe. It's probably trying to install itself when called by Xitami? If you want to run Rebol/View and Rebol/Core at once, consider doing what I've done, which is to have one directory, like: %/C/Rebol/ with two subdirectories, inside it like: %/C/Rebol/View/ and: %/C/Rebol/Core/ Then put Rebol/Core in it's directory and Rebol/View in it's directory. Then check them out to make sure that both work OK, then try them out again. Be sure that the REBOL_HOME variable in your autoexec.bat file is changed and that you've rebooted your system. The end result is two Rebol executables which are at: %/C/Rebol/Core/Rebol.exe and: %/C/Rebol/View/Rebol.exe Then in the %/C/Rebol/ directory, you can store your Rebol scripts and it's all tidy and so on. I hope that helps! If not, please let me know, or email the list? Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/

Hello Andrew, AM> It sounds like your rebol installation is bad. I think that Rebol/View AM> doesn't like being called %rebolcmd.exe. It's probably trying to install AM> itself when called by Xitami? No, that's now what I have done. The command line I quoted works; #!C:\Rebol\rebolcmd.exe --cgi -s This really IS Rebol/Command. The above also works if I use just plain rebol.exe, IE Rebol/Core. What does NOT work is if I do ANYTHING like the following; #!C:\Rebol\view\rebol.exe --cgi -s This just doesn't work. It hangs. Doesn't matter what switches I use either, I've tried dozens of combinations. I can run the exact path and my Rebol/View just goes straight into the console and doesn't try to install itself with the nasty pop up GUI thing. AM> If you want to run Rebol/View and Rebol/Core at once, consider doing what AM> I've done, which is to have one directory, like: AM> %/C/Rebol/ AM> with two subdirectories, inside it like: AM> %/C/Rebol/View/ AM> and: AM> %/C/Rebol/Core/ I just leave Rebol/Core and Rebol/Command in the %/C/Rebol/ dir. AM> Then put Rebol/Core in it's directory and Rebol/View in it's directory. AM> Then check them out to make sure that both work OK, then try them out again. They all work, I'm not a complete fool. :) AM> Be sure that the REBOL_HOME variable in your autoexec.bat file is changed AM> and that you've rebooted your system. The end result is two Rebol AM> executables which are at: AM> %/C/Rebol/Core/Rebol.exe AM> and: AM> %/C/Rebol/View/Rebol.exe AM> Then in the %/C/Rebol/ directory, you can store your Rebol scripts and AM> it's all tidy and so on. I didn't know about the REBOL_HOME var actually. Not that it appears to matter much. I have Rebol/view (pro) registered in the system to execute scripts without security etc. It works well. AM> I hope that helps! If not, please let me know, or email the list? The only solution I can think of is to work out what the hell is happening with Rebol/View when I'm calling it. Regards, Mat Bettinson Codeplay Tel: +44 (0)20 7482 3382 140-142 Kentish Town Rd, London, NW1 9QB http://www.codeplay.com

Hi, Matt, you wrote:

> The only solution I can think of is to work out what the hell is happening

> I didn't know about the REBOL_HOME var actually.

Hi Andrew, AM> You do know that Rebol/View's %User.r and %Rebol.r are different from AM> Rebol/Core's %User.r and %Rebol.r, don't you? It sounds like you've got all AM> the rebol versions using the same versions of these files. Well not exactly. Rebol/core and Rebol/command are using the user.r and rebol.r in C:/Rebol/ but Rebol/view uses the files in C:/Rebol/View/ because that's where's it's installed. Now Rebol/view when you set it up IE run it for the first time, appears to set up it's path independently. I'm not sure where, but it works and it's installed and I don't have to touch it to run scripts. So I fail to see why it just hangs when called as a CGI app from Xitami.

>> I didn't know about the REBOL_HOME var actually.