[thelist] Cannot write CGI scripts on a Mac

[Jonathan Russell]

Dear Michael:

Just to check, but are you setting Fetch to upload as ASCII? I know that
with Transport (my favorite FTP program for the Mac), if I don't specify the
transfer as ASCII, it just won't work on my site.


--Jonathan
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> From: Michael Galvin <michael at sourcedesign.ie>
> Subject: [thelist] Cannot write CGI scripts on a Mac
>
> I'm having no luck at all creating CGI scripts on my Mac.  I've downloaded
> the Lite BBEdit, and I've zapped gremlins, etc.  I've set the file creator
> and save state options to 'BBEdit' and line breaks to 'Unix'.  I've uploaded
> as text, but I'm still get the old 500 Internal server error problem.
>
> I'm pretty sure that it's nothing to do with Fetch, as I've downloaded a
> script from my cgi-bin that I know works, reuploaded it, and it seems to be
> okay.
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>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Michael