[gopher] Motsognir question

[Mateusz Viste]

Oh, sorry, I missed the fact that your problem was two-fold :)
Indeed, my latest patch is simply setting the current working directory 
for executed scripts, but the gophermap still needs to find them by 
their absolute path.

I will add this today, so gophermaps will be able to locate scripts 
using their relative path.

BTW, in the special case that a script is called by a gophermap (as 
opposed to being called by the user agent directly), I believe it would 
make more sense to set the current working directory to where the 
gophermap is, not where the script is. What do you think?

say, I have a gophermap in /mystuff, that calls the inline script 
/cgi-bin/output.cgi - in this case, I'd rather expect the current 
working directory of the scrip to be set to /mystuff, instead of 
/cgi-bin/. Do you agree on this?

Mateusz




On 28/12/2015 22:58, Martin Kukac wrote:
> Hello Mateusz,
>
> thanks a lot, that solved one part of my original question. Indeed PHP
> scripts now have working directory set to the same directory they are
> saved in. How about the gophermap itself? When I use = to insert result
> of executed script, I have to specify the complete path.
>
> It's not a big deal, it just would be more friendly if Motsognir was by
> default searching in the same directory, where the gophermap is (when I
> use =./somescript.php).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martin
>
> On 12/28/2015 08:07 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>> Hello Martin,
>>
>> It's done. Now Motsognir will run CGI and PHP scripts from within the
>> directory where the given script resides. You will find the most recent
>> release on Motsognir's SVN, but you can just as well simply fetch the
>> tarball from sourceforge's interface:
>> http://sourceforge.net/p/motsognir/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/
>>
>> ("Download snapshot")
>>
>> I didn't release a new "official" version for that yet, since maybe some
>> other minor things will go in it.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any troubles deploying this latest version.
>>
>> Mateusz
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 28/12/2015 16:33, Martin Kukac wrote:
>>> Thanks a lot! This will actually be the very first time I will update
>>> already installed gopher server :-)
>>>
>>> At the moment I can't tell any more suggestions, but that may change as
>>> I will progress in modyfying gophermaps.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> On 12/28/2015 04:06 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>>>> Hi Martin,
>>>>
>>>> Nice to hear you use Motsognir!
>>>>
>>>> The current path (pwd) is changed to / when Motsognir daemonize itself,
>>>> and it is never changed. It is not a bug - it's a (lack of) feature ;)
>>>>
>>>> Switching the "current directory" to the script's location just before
>>>> executing it sounds like a harmless thing to do, and it would
>>>> definitely
>>>> make your life easier. I will write a patch for that today, and let you
>>>> know when it's ready.
>>>>
>>>> By any means, let me know should you see any other other perfectible
>>>> points in Motsognir, or need help with some particular items, I'll be
>>>> happy to help.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Mateusz