== Requirements == - cabal * See quick installation instructions at the bottom of http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall - FastCGI development kit * MacPorts: sudo port install fcgi - Haskell packages: fastcgi, json, utf8-string * cabal install fastcgi json utf8-string - GF installed as a Cabal package * (cd ../.. && cabal install) * Maybe need to remove "-beta" from the Version field in ../../GF.cabal == Building == - Build gf.fcgi $ make - Build small example grammar: $ make food == Running == - Make sure that your web server supports FastCGI. For Apache on OS X, do this: $ curl -O http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-2.4.6.tar.gz $ tar -zxf mod_fastcgi-2.4.6.tar.gz $ cd mod_fastcgi-2.4.6/ $ apxs -o mod_fastcgi.so -c *.c $ sudo apxs -i -a -n fastcgi mod_fastcgi.so - Make sure that your web server knows that gf.fcgi is a FastCGI program. - Make sure that you are allowed to run FastCGI programs in the directory that you use. - With large grammars, gf.fcgi may take long enough to start that the web server thinks that the program has died. With Apache, you can fix this by adding "FastCgiConfig -startDelay 30" to your httpd.conf. These sections from my Apache config fixes the above two (some of this may be fixed by the second apxs command above): (On OS X, this is in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf) LoadModule fastcgi_module libexec/httpd/mod_fastcgi.so AddModule mod_fastcgi.c FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/ AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi FastCgiConfig -startDelay 30 (On OS X, this is in /etc/httpd/users/bringert.conf) Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymlinks ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all - If you have changed the web server config, you need to restart the web server (this is also useful to get a clean slate if you end up with dead or resource-hogging FastCGI processes): $ sudo apachectl restart - If Apache complains about a syntax error on the FastCgiIpcDir line, try deleting any existing /tmp/fcgi_ipc/ directory: $ sudo rm -rf /tmp/fcgi_ipc/ - Copy or symlink this directory to your web directory. - First test from the command-line, since debugging is harder from the AJAX UI: $ curl 'http://localhost/~bringert/gf-server/gf.fcgi/translate?input=this+fish&cat=Item&from=FoodEng' - Check server logs (e.g. /var/log/httpd/error_log) if it doesn't work. - Go to SERVER_URL/gf-client.html in your web browser.