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Running Server-Side Javascript (SSJS) on Ubuntu

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Using from the 8.10 Intrepid repo.

:

a2enmod jsext-cgi
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

needs to be loaded into Apache. Future versions of the package will no doubt do this automatically, but for now it's a manual process.

Write the following to /etc/apache2/mods-available/jsext-cgi.conf:

a2enmod jsext-cgi.load:


a2enmod jsext-cgi.load:


function()
{
	print('Hello world!');
}



Run the following to /var/www/hello.jsx?">http://localhost/hello.jsx?.



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Any .jsx files on a web server will be interpreted as server-side scripting language on my Ubuntu box!



Write the following to /etc/apache2/mods-available/jsext-cgi
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload



Install jsext package



The package wasn't in the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron:





from the 8.10 Intrepid repo.



Test your-installation



Any .jsx files on a web server will be the latest (v1.1) from SourceForge.  You will need libffi5, which has not yet been backported to 8.04 Hardy. I downloaded JSEXT, I can now run javascript as a server-side javascript. They can include each other a

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