Migrating from On-rev to Livecode hosting

kitchin · Post by **kitchin** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 9:35 pm

Our host On-rev migrated us to Livecode hosting. The cgi scripts with this bang line stopped working:

#!rev  -ui

I noticed there's a big binary blob in the cgi folder called "rev". Can someone explain this ecosystem to me, or enough to get a Hello World script running?

Otherwise it looks like regular old cPanel hosting and php is working (Wordpress, for example). But the rev cgi's are giving us error 500. File permissions are 755. Here is the hello world I tried:

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#!rev  -ui
on startup
  put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr & cr
  put "Hello World!"
end startup

I also tried it with

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#!revolution

Thanks in advance.

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:40 am

Hi kitchin,

1. welcome to the forum!

2. Not being an expert, but I think you now need to use "?lc" like in this snippet:

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<html>
<body>
<?lc
  put "<p>Go away! :-)</p>"
?>
</body>
</html>

Best

Klaus

kitchin · Post by **kitchin** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:19 pm

Yeah I am a little confused on cgi scripts vs. inline usage for Livecode formerly-known-as-revolution. And perhaps how to get this big "rev" blob running in the cgi folder. I've looked around but haven't found a big picture explanation of the platform I'm on!

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:59 pm

Hi kitchen,

maybe this site will help a bit:
http://on-rev.com/revolution/overview/

Best

Klaus

jacque · Post by **jacque** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:55 pm

The old Rev engine is 32-bit. If the new server is 64-bit it won't be able to run the Rev code and you'll get that error. You'll need to replace it with a 64-bit LC engine instead. After that all your original cgi scripts should work again.

kitchin · Post by **kitchin** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:36 pm

jacque wrote:The old Rev engine is 32-bit. If the new server is 64-bit it won't be able to run the Rev code and you'll get that error. You'll need to replace it with a 64-bit LC engine instead. After that all your original cgi scripts should work again.

Ah, thanks a million. It's Livecode hosting, so I'll see if they will do that install for us.

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