[sf-perl] LinuxWorld Expo - Demo

[Brian Hamlin]

actually, it seems the CGI is running as process    www

--
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/xml\n\n";
print "<w>" . `whoami` . "</w>";


On Aug 6, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Brian Hamlin wrote:

> another twist on the SF Expo: Josh and I were at the booth this
> afternoon, moving over a nifty demo app I wrote at a contest at MIT
> last January, that uses Postgres, Perl and the Google Maps API in the
> browser.
>
> Funny thing was.. it worked fine on my machine  ;-)
> --
> DBD::Pg can't read from Postgres while executing as a CGI
> yet from the command line, DBD::Pg can read just fine!! vexing!
>
> This is on a Macintosh OS X. The Apache is pre-installed, and runs
> as user hmmm, someone might know.
>
> When we installed DBD::Pg, the configure magically 'found' that 
> Postgres
> was actually installed in a local directory of the current (admin)
> user, not in /usr/local
> So the DBD:Pg test ran fine, and generally can access a running
> database fine..
>
> its just when the same code runs as a CGI, access fails.. Josh changed
> access
> to a library (libpq ?), but that alone did not fix it..
>
> Suggestions welcome - time is of the essence :-)
>
>    -Brian
>
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