OCKit4Web
Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 November 2010 01:01 Written by aoirthoir Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:09
This version of the OCKit4Web is known to work on Dreamhost. I am not sure if it will work on other systems or not. Over the coming weeks we are going to add a lot of conversation and features for it. For now it works with a patch to VBISAM.
Instructions:
tar -xzf OCKit4Web.tar.gz
cd OCKit4Web/Installs
./install.sh
This will create the directory /home/username/usr and everything else that is needed. It will compile and install VBISAM, GMP, and OpenCOBOL into the said usr directory. Then you should be good to go.
The team will be adding more soon and this is just a short late night post.
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I just tested this out on DreamHost and it definitely works. One point in the instructions.
You need to ensure that you copy the ockit4web.cgi and htaccess into your domain folder.
Also, as a side note. You should add the following to your .bashrc_profile
alias cobc=’~/usr/bin/cobc’
This will allow you to execute cobc while you are in an ssh session.
If you are calling cobc for what ever reason from a cobol cgi you will need to provide the path ~/usr/bin/ to cobc.
Great work and thanks for the effort put into it! I will try this in other Apache configurations later.