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reply "Nathan M. Swan" <nathanmswan gmail.com> writes:
How do I deal with this (on OSX); are CGI programs not allowed to
write to files? How to change this?

Thanks, NMS

test.d:


import std.stdio;

void main() {
        writeln("Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\nHello, World!");
}

error log:
[Wed Apr 25 00:03:01 2012] [error] [client ::1] sh:
/Users/nathanmswan/Sites/test.d.deps: Permission denied
[Wed Apr 25 00:03:01 2012] [error] [client ::1] Failed: dmd  -v
-o- '/Users/nathanmswan/Sites/test.d'
-I'/Users/nathanmswan/Sites' >/Users/nathanmswan/Sites/test.d.deps
[Wed Apr 25 00:03:01 2012] [error] [client ::1] Premature end of
script headers: test.d
Apr 25 2012
parent reply "Nicolas Sicard" <dransic gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 25 April 2012 at 18:11:16 UTC, Nathan M. Swan wrote:

 How do I deal with this (on OSX); are CGI programs not allowed 
 to
 write to files? How to change this?

 Thanks, NMS

 test.d:


 import std.stdio;

 void main() {
        writeln("Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\nHello, World!");
 }

 error log:
 [Wed Apr 25 00:03:01 2012] [error] [client ::1] sh:
 /Users/nathanmswan/Sites/test.d.deps: Permission denied
 [Wed Apr 25 00:03:01 2012] [error] [client ::1] Failed: dmd  -v
 -o- '/Users/nathanmswan/Sites/test.d'
 -I'/Users/nathanmswan/Sites'

/Users/nathanmswan/Sites/test.d.deps


 [Wed Apr 25 00:03:01 2012] [error] [client ::1] Premature end of
 script headers: test.d


Have you checked that your web server has write access to 
/Users/nathanmswan/Sites/ ?
Apr 25 2012
parent reply "Nathan M. Swan" <nathanmswan gmail.com> writes:
 Have you checked that your web server has write access to 
 /Users/nathanmswan/Sites/ ?


Yes, it works now, thanks!
NMS

P.S. Sorry this might be in the wrong forum, but now I can 
advertise my homepage as "index.d" instead of compiling it and 
having it be "index.cgi"
Apr 25 2012
next sibling parent reply Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:
Am Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:44:59 +0200
schrieb "Nathan M. Swan" <nathanmswan gmail.com>:


 Have you checked that your web server has write access to 
 /Users/nathanmswan/Sites/ ?


 
 Yes, it works now, thanks!
 NMS
 
 P.S. Sorry this might be in the wrong forum, but now I can 
 advertise my homepage as "index.d" instead of compiling it and 
 having it be "index.cgi"


D is not a virtual machine language. You have to compile your code to execute
it. (In case that was unclear.)
As for the extension, that is probably a configuration option of your web
server. Search for CGI extensions or .cgi and add .d there.

-- 
Marco
Apr 26 2012
next sibling parent reply Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On 26/04/12 15:52, Marco Leise wrote:

 Am Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:44:59 +0200
 schrieb "Nathan M. Swan"<nathanmswan gmail.com>:


 Have you checked that your web server has write access to
 /Users/nathanmswan/Sites/ ?


 Yes, it works now, thanks!
 NMS

 P.S. Sorry this might be in the wrong forum, but now I can
 advertise my homepage as "index.d" instead of compiling it and
 having it be "index.cgi"


 D is not a virtual machine language. You have to compile your code to execute
it. (In case that was unclear.)


... don't see why you shouldn't use rdmd.


 As for the extension, that is probably a configuration option of your web
server. Search for CGI extensions or .cgi and add .d there.


Isn't it considered bad practice in modern web design to have _any_ file 
extension visible?  Or at least any file extension that hints at the underlying 
software.

If nothing else, it's bad for future-proofing of URLs.  What happens when you 
switch your site from D to D++ in the year 2025? :-)
Apr 26 2012
parent Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:
Am Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:12:05 +0200
schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net>:


 D is not a virtual machine language. You have to compile your code to execute
it. (In case that was unclear.)


 
 ... don't see why you shouldn't use rdmd.


Yes, rdmd is one of the tools that compile your code. It's just not like you
call up a .php and it executes in a virtual machine _instead_ of _compiling_
and executing native code.

-- 
Marco
Apr 26 2012
prev sibling parent "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:12:05PM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

 On 26/04/12 15:52, Marco Leise wrote:


[...]

As for the extension, that is probably a configuration option of your
web server. Search for CGI extensions or .cgi and add .d there.


 
 Isn't it considered bad practice in modern web design to have _any_
 file extension visible?  Or at least any file extension that hints at
 the underlying software.
 
 If nothing else, it's bad for future-proofing of URLs.  What happens
 when you switch your site from D to D++ in the year 2025? :-)


File extensions in URLs are a thing of the 90's. Nowadays webserver
technology makes it possible (and desirable) to drop them altogether.
That way, you can implement the initial version of your page as page.pl,
then later change it to page.php when you upgrade, and yet later change
it to page.d, all without affecting your users or links to that page in
the least. If you use something similar to Apache's autoindex, you can
even replace it with page/index.d when you decide that the page needs
some separate subpages, WITHOUT needing to edit URLs all over the place.

(Besides, URL means "*Universal* resource locater": it's not supposed to
change without good reason!)


T

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English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some
languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a
negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can
form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah,
yeah."
Apr 26 2012
prev sibling parent "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 26 April 2012 at 03:45:01 UTC, Nathan M. Swan wrote:

 P.S. Sorry this might be in the wrong forum, but now I can 
 advertise my homepage as "index.d" instead of compiling it and 
 having it be "index.cgi"


On Apache, you can do something like this in your
.htaccess:

Options +ExecCGI

<Files "app">
         SetHandler cgi-script
</Files>
Apr 26 2012