appcast.cgi not loading under 10.6

Still running into issue with the appcast.cgi file on the Mac OS 10.6.x machine. When I put in the URL:

http://betaadmin.micromat.com/~betaadmin/mmpro5/appcast.cgi

I still get this in the web browser:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$|++;

use CGI qw/:all/;

#my $appcastUrl = "http://micromat.com/updates/pro5/appcast.cgi";
my $appcastUrl = "http://betaadmin.micromat.com/~betaadmin/mmpro5/beta_appcast.xml";
my $q = CGI->new();

open (T, "+>>/Users/betaadmin/Shared/mmpro5_systeminfo.txt")
 or print STDERR "ERROR: $!\n\n";
print T "timestamp:\t" . scalar(localtime()) . "\n";

foreach my $k ($q->param)
{
    print T "$k:\t" . $q->param($k) . "\n";
}

print T "----------\n";
close(T);

print "Location: $appcastUrl\n\n";

All the files and directories are in the correct locations. However, when I use the old machine running Mac OS X 10.4.x:

http://pinfo.micromat.com/~betaadmin/mmpro5/appcast.cgi

It loads the information correctly and Sparkle works with dialog. It would appear that there is something minor oversight that I am not aware of to make it work on Mac OS X 10.6.x. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

This looks like a webserver configuration problem. Make sure you have +ExecCGI on in your Apache config.

Went to /private/etc/apache2 and updated httpd.conf with what you suggested:

# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
    Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
    AllowHandler cgi-script cgi
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.

Still no luck. :(

AllowHandler cgi-script cgi

fixed:

AddHandler cgi-script cgi

However, still no go. :(

Hi Andy,

Here is my httpd.conf file from this machine. The appcast.cgi file resides
in:

/Users/betaadmin/Sites/mmpro5

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks for your help.

Christian

On 5/5/10 12:01 PM, "Andy Matuschak" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Your question #109659 on Sparkle changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/sparkle/+question/109659
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Andy Matuschak proposed the following answer:
> This looks like a webserver configuration problem. Make sure you have
> +ExecCGI on in your Apache config.

Figured it out. Apache 2 requires the "." after the cgi and pl in AddHandler. In Apache 1, this wasn't used or referenced.