Forum OpenACS Development: AOLServer & Perl cgis?!?

Posted by dwayne hinton on 10/12/01 06:27 PM

is there any way of running perl scripts on aolserver? just think it's
a waste of resources to run two web servers on the same box. and i
do'nt want to use the apache aol_mod. i saw a sourceforge project,
called perl_aolserver or some thing but it's pre-alpha stage since
last year. does anyone have any ideas. also how do u add elements from
packages to a static adp page.

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Posted by Don Baccus on 10/12/01 06:40 PM

Check out the documentation on nscgi. Note that AFAIK this forks for each script, so it's not as efficient as mod_perl...

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Posted by Gilbert Wong on 10/12/01 07:37 PM

Check out Jon Griffin's nscgi install guide. http://www.jongriffin.com/static/consultant/nscgi

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Posted by dwayne hinton on 10/12/01 10:37 PM

thanks all, till next hurdle :)

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Posted by Alex Sokoloff on 10/16/01 05:53 PM

Has anyone tried using nscgi with OpenACS 4? I'm wondering whether the mapping between /cgi-bin and the scripts directory will break when used in conjunction with the request processor.

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Posted by Jon Griffin on 10/16/01 09:22 PM

Yes it works fine. In fact it won't work with ACS 3.x

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Posted by Roberto Mello on 10/16/01 09:44 PM

I run several CGIs with nscgi and OpenACS 3.2.x. No problems here.

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Posted by Jon Griffin on 10/16/01 10:48 PM

Let me rephrase that.
It won't work with ACS classic 3.x that started using the RP functions. Thanks Roberto for jogging my memory.

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Posted by David Walker on 10/16/01 10:59 PM

What are the the RP functions?

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Posted by Jon Griffin on 10/17/01 12:37 AM

Request Processor.

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Posted by Don Baccus on 10/17/01 04:38 AM

The request processor traps every http[s] request to your OpenACS 4 AOLserver instance, does permission checking and routes it to the right filesystem path. What Jon's implying is that the ACS 3.x classic versions that first implemented the request processor probably mapped requests to the cgi directory to /dev/null heaven (I'm guessing a bit here) while the current request processor correctly let's them get handled by AOLserver's CGI module.