Making apache ready for ruby ajax responder

fedora <fedora@xxxxxxxx> · Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:38:13 +0100

Hi listers

Sofar, i found out, that an ajax responder cannot be in the cgi-bin 

directory, because, apparently, apache from this directory expects other 

headers and contents than usual ajax resonders send. That means, 

whenever i try to put an ajax responder into the cgi-bin directory, i 

get a 500 Internal Server Error reply to an ajax request.

Next i found this: When i put a ruby program into any directory of the 

current virtual-web (except into the cgi-bin directory), when i try to 

invoke it from the browser, i get the ruby text as response. That is not 

what i want.

Next i found this: When i put a php program into any directory of the 

current virtual-web (except into the cgi-bin directory) and i invoke it 

from the browser via ajax call, it replies as expected. i want to have 

this behaviour from a ruby script as well.

Next i found this: When i try to add a handler for ruby scripts in any 

directory (except the cgi-bin directory) of the virtual host, like so

<Directory /home/svn/work/test/>
  Action application/x-ruby /usr/bin/ruby
  AddHandler application/x-ruby .rbx
</Directory>

i get the following, when ivoking the ruby program klixe.rbx in this 

directory via ajax call:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>

<p>The requested URL /usr/bin/ruby/test/klixe.rbx was not found on this 

server.</p>

<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.16 (Fedora) Server at dick.dyn.lan Port 80</address>
</body></html>

which is to say, that apache concatenates the relativ URL of the file i 

want to invoke with the handler-path, which certainly does not provide 

the response i want.

Where am i wrong? what do i miss?

Thanx for any helpx

suomix

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