Earl Walker,

I'm sorry. I am not the most adept person for interpreting instructions
involving
Terminal commands; so I have various printouts of instructions from similar
troubleshooting queries which I read and follow so that I can make sense of
stuff. (ex. I just recently decoded the instruction to make change the owner
and group for all vanilla files by using the following command)

chown -R * www

It took me awhile to figure out that my computer can execute this Terminal
command when typed this way:

sudo chown -R www vanilla*

…and, in the section of instructions that show what the cgi-executables file
should look like, it took me awhile to figure out that both files,
cgi-executables
and webserver should've been changed to group="staff"

I don't see any new errors in the error_log directory. I began to look at the
access_log and this is what it returns:

10.0.1.2 - - [07/Oct/2008:23:09:07 -0700] "GET /cgi-bin/vanilla.r HTTP/1.1" 200
3523
10.0.1.2 - - [07/Oct/2008:23:09:07 -0700] "GET /vanilla/res/vanilla.css HTTP/
1.1" 200 1286
10.0.1.2 - - [07/Oct/2008:23:09:12 -0700] "GET /cgi-bin/vanilla.r?selector=
display&snip=vanilla-user-login&redirect-to= HTTP/1.1" 200 3619
10.0.1.2 - - [07/Oct/2008:23:09:28 -0700] "POST /cgi-bin/vanilla.r HTTP/1.1"
200 362

ALSO, the error message from my browser returns this when I try to log in:

10.0.1.2 - - [07/Oct/2008:23:09:07 -0700] "GET /cgi-bin/vanilla.r HTTP/1.1" 200
3523
10.0.1.2 - - [07/Oct/2008:23:09:07 -0700] "GET /vanilla/res/vanilla.css HTTP/
1.1" 200 1286
10.0.1.2 - - [07/Oct/2008:23:09:12 -0700] "GET /cgi-bin/vanilla.r?selector=
display&snip=vanilla-user-login&redirect-to= HTTP/1.1" 200 3619
10.0.1.2 - - [07/Oct/2008:23:09:28 -0700] "POST /cgi-bin/vanilla.r HTTP/1.1"
200 362


============REPLY TO YOUR QUESTIONS===========
So to answer your puzzlement, the reason I have a vanilla.cgi file in my cgi-
executables directory is because I was following instructions that contain the
first line "Apache and Rebol"

"You're almost done! Edit vanilla.cgi.conf and adapt at least 'vanilla-space-
identifier' and 'vanilla-root'

Use some random string as 'vanilla-space-identifier', for example the current
date and time (e.g. vanilla-space-identifier: '2003-09-22 01:51')

'vanilla-root' must point to your Vanilla installaction directory (e.g.
vanilla-root:
'/usr/local/vanilla/') Do not forget the trailing slash! (it must be
'/usr/local/
vanilla/' but not '/usr/local/vanilla').

That's it for now, you should now be able to access your Vanilla instance thru
a browser, try <URL: http://localhost/cgi-bin/vanilla.cgi>."
================================================

I do have an additional question about this, BTW. This is what my "library/
webserver/cgi-executables" directory looks like:

drwxrwxr-x 11 root staff 374 Oct 6 20:56 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 root staff 170 Jan 31 2008 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ricoagui admin 6148 Mar 21 2005 .DS_Store
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 5398 Nov 26 2004 printenv
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 757 Nov 26 2004 test-cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ricoagui staff 25744 Oct 7 09:29 vanilla-wrapped.r
-rw-r--r-- 1 ricoagui admin 843 Oct 6 23:10 vanilla.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ricoagui staff 2526 Oct 7 00:11 vanilla.cgi.conf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ricoagui staff 96 Oct 7 22:54 vanilla.r
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ricoagui staff 2560 Oct 7 14:36 vanilla.r.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 839 Oct 6 18:03 wrapper.cgi

Do I have too many files in here? or are the executable files (vanilla.r,
vanilla.r.conf, vanilla-wrapped.r) in the wrong place?

============REPLY TO YOUR QUESTIONS===========
I recall an immediate error. I learned that registration was successful by
trying
to reload same page again and attempting the registration process again.
================================================

--- In vanilla-pudding@yahoogroups.com, earl.walker@... wrote:
>
> Excerpts from artworld's message of Tue Oct 07 22:34:50 UTC 2008:
> > I tried what you suggested and it did have a positive effect. It seems
> > I managed to get thru the registration process with the name "Cali
> > Grapher"
>
> what result did you get, after entering your registration info? did you
> get a "registration successful" page, or did you immediately get the
> error described below?
>
> > The error log shows this:
> >
> > file permission deny server executions:
> > /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/vanilla.cgi
>
> if i understand you right, you'r following the install-osx instructions
> from vanillasite. as far as i can tell, after doing the steps described,
> you should not have a vanilla.cgi at all, so i'm a bit confused by this
> error message.



-Henry