Apache Server

Couldn’t get test.cgi to execute in my userspace (although PHP worked fine). Tried all kinds of settings in httpd.conf and with .htaccess file but to no avail.

So, resigned, I put index.html into /Library/WebServer/Documents/ and put test.cgi into /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/ (remembering to chmod +x test.cgi).

Now:

http://localhost opens index.html and

<form name=”form1″ method=”post” action=”cgi-bin/test.cgi”>
<input type=”submit” name=”Submit” value=”Submit”></form>

executes successfully!

Really Simple Syndication

I hear NetNewsWire has an excellent RSS Reader for the Mac, and now Safari has one. I didn’t really get the point of having one until I saw the short movie explaining RSS by Common Craft.

This is the dialog box showing at Safari > Preferences > RSS

The way it works is, when you see an RSS icon on a webpage, click the icon to create the feed link, and save it as a bookmark in the Bookmarks Bar. The aggregate will show up at the bottom of that bar’s category.