zerohalo wrote: > > Paul Lutus wrote: >> Just one question. Do you want the existing Web server to serve your Ruby >> code, or do you require the server to be Ruby-based also? >> > > No, the server doesn't need to be Ruby-based. I could use lighttpd or > apache to serve the code. > >> If the former, you can tell Apache to serve Ruby scripts that contain the >> usual CGI conventions. That seems simple enough. And it might not be what >> you are asking for. > > That's the part I'm missing. I find Apache extremely difficult to > configure (beyond the basics). How would I tell Apache to serve Ruby > scripts? Others have offered good advice. The simplest way is to give the server what it expects to see: --------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/ruby -w print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n" print "<html><body><center><h1>Hello world!</h1></center></body></html>" --------------------------------------- Put this file in a directory where executable content is expected to be, like /serverpath/cgi-bin, and chances are Apache will treat it as you would expect, without any special configuration. -- Paul Lutus http://www.arachnoid.com