[Twisted-Python] Re: Twisted.Web and Perl CGIs

[Thomas Raschbacher]

i think u want --ignore-ext right? ;)
On Mon, 19 May 2003 16:05:25 -0500, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting a Twisted.Web configured properly to work
> with some Perl CGI scripts.  The Perl scripts are part of SQL-Ledger,
> and their instructions are for Apache, but I'm hoping to using Twisted
> instead of Apache.
> 
> To begin, they suggest the following for http.conf, and I'm not sure
> how to go about creating the equivalent environment with Twisted:
> 
> ----
> create a file sql-ledger-httpd.conf in the same location
> where your httpd.conf is and copy the next section into the file
> 
>   Alias /sql-ledger/ /usr/local/sql-ledger/
>   <Directory /usr/local/sql-ledger>
>     AddHandler cgi-script .pl
>     Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymlinks
>   </Directory>
> 
>   <Directory /usr/local/sql-ledger/users>
>     Order Deny,Allow
>     Deny from All
>   </Directory>
> 
> edit httpd.conf and add
> 
>   # SQL-Ledger
>   Include <ServerRoot>/sql-ledger-httpd.conf
> 
> Note: Replace <ServerRoot> with the server's root directory!
> 
> restart your web server.
> ----
> 
> I think the need for FollowSymlinks is what's causing me problems when
> I try to create a .rpy file that allows Perl CGIs.  I've tried several
> variations of the .rpy file from the Twisted documentation, but can't
> get one that works.  Here is where I gave up:
> 
> ----
> from twisted.web import static, twcgi
> 
> class PerlScript(twcgi.FilteredScript):
>     filter = '/usr/bin/perl' # Points to the perl parser
> 
> resource = static.File("/sql-ledger") # Points to the perl website
> resource.processors = {".pl": PerlScript} # Files that end with .pl will be
>                                           # processed by PerlScript
> resource.indexNames = ['admin.pl']
> ----
> 
> I think one of the problems (besides the fact that I don't know
> Twisted well enough) is that the admin.pl script is actually a symlink
> to login.pl.  Would that be a problem?  I also don't understand what I
> should be pointing to as a parameter to static.File().
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  The SQL-Ledger installation
> instructions are here, in case that helps:
> 
> http://www.sql-ledger.org/cgi-bin/nav.pl?page=source/readme.txt&title=README
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pat