Comments on: Mac OS X, Ruby, CGI without Rails

By: Guerino

Guerino — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:12:00 +0000

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the reply. I actually got it to work (at least partially).

I’m working on a Mac and I noticed that if I install the program in the http://localhost area, it works fine. However, if I install it in the http://localhost/~guerino1 area, it doesn’t run.

I’m now trying to understand what needs to be changed/configured to allow Apache to execute scripts out of my personal working area.

My Best,

Frank

By: Bill Barnett

Bill Barnett — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:21:00 +0000

Can you post the relevant parts of /var/log/httpd/error_log?

By: Guerino

Guerino — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:07:00 +0000

Hi,

I’m completely new to all of this and I apologize if my questions seem ignorant. I tried to create a simple index.html file with a form in my “/Users/guerino1/Sites” directory. The index.html file body has the simple code…

This is my header

Username:

In the directory “/Users/guerino1/Sites/cgi-bin” I added the “form_handler.rb” file that is in this blog’s example.
I also added the file “.htaccess” in the “/Users/guerino1/Sites” directory, with the line”Options ExecCGI”.

When I run the example, I get an error that states: “You don’t have permission to access /~guerino1/cgi-bin/form_handler.rb
on this server.”

The URL reads: “http://127.0.0.1/~guerino1/cgi-bin/form_handler.rb?user=myName”

Does anyone have any idea as to how I can fix this?

Thanks,

Frank

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:31:00 +0000

Bill, thanks for replying. After spending a few hours trying various methods, I ended up installing rvm (and reading up on the Apache config files multiple times) and was able to get it working that way. The only modification to the above file that I had made when it was broken was the require ‘sqlite3′ line.

By: Bill Barnett

Bill Barnett — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:24:00 +0000

I assume that you have the sqlite3 gem installed since your script runs as expected via the command line. Is it installed globally (so that the user which runs your HTTP server can access it) or locally? That’s my primary suspicion. Also, what is your HTTP server log telling you?

Have you seen gist.github.com? Could you paste your code there and share it here? Also, it would be helpful if you could paste any relevant log out into another file using the “Add another file…” link on the gist page.

Good luck.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:05:00 +0000

I just stumbled upon this blog and was able to replicate your example. However, I have been unsuccessful trying to communicate with SQLite3 with Ruby. It seems to fail at the ‘require “sqlite3″‘ line, though I can execute this on my computer from the command line without any problems. I have also tried directly in the HTML with eruby, but that also failed. Have any advice?

By: Ajay

Ajay — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:16 +0000

On Panther, I also had to modify the following line in /etc/httpd/users/my_user.conf:

AllowOverride None
was changed to
AllowOverride Options