Saturday, April 28, 2007

How-to use built-in webserver; Setup a English<->Chinese dict

First a simple example on how to sue the built-in apache and perl to setup a english-chinese web dictionary

1) Enable the Apache server System Pref->Sharing->Service->Personal Web Sharing

This will start the apache webserver - httpd.
Default cgi exe directory is /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables
Uses default /etc/httpd/httpd.conf directory

You can now access the
-systemwide home page on http://ip-address and
-your personal homepage on http://ip-address/os-x-login-id/

2) Get the necessary chinese-english files to setup your web dictionary:
a) Program (1 perl file) from here Download the zip-file
b) Dictionary (large zipfile) from here
Unzip worklook.pl and cedict_tc.u8 into the cgi-directory
/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables

3) Now access your offline dictionary in webbrowser via this url

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