[support] Enabling jquery/AJAX (unknow is not a function)

[Richard Damon]

On 11/13/12 9:33 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * Richard Damon <Richard at Damon-Family.org> [121113 17:02]:
>> On 11/13/12 8:24 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
>>> * Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net> [121113 16:13]:
>>>> You need to set your server up to actually process python files. Doing 
>>>> so varies widely depending upon OS, server software and versions. You 
>>>> might want to Google for it or ask around on a forum dedicated to server 
>>>> configuration.
>>>   Wow! I've been a CGI programmer for 17 years and using python for
>>>   CGI for 10 of that. Most certainly my server - I.E. apache,
>>>   running on port 80 *is* configured to process python. 
>>>
>>>   However the server in question in this case is drupal itself,
>>>   running on port 8080. 
>>>
>>>   Therefore, the question should be : How can I configure drupal to
>>>   process python files?
>>>
>>>   thanks
>>>
>> Drupal is NOT a server, but a bunch of PHP scripts executed by your web
>> server (possibly apache). It appears that you have configured your web
>> server to listen on port 8080 and serve this port from a directory you
>> have loaded Drupal into. THAT instance of the web server needs to be
>> configured to run the CGI programs you want. 
>  Ah! My mistake!
>  
>  I just let bitnami do the install. I did no configuration, but
>  perhaps an  option for port 80 was there in the setup interface. I
>  would assume however that the apache instance would use the same
>  configuration that the instance on port 80 does. 
>  
>  I believe that the jQuery.get() function may be what is
>  needed. I will try it and report back tomorrow.
>  thank you
>
Each virtual host in apache has its own configuration for many of the
settings that apache uses, this is WHY you use multiple vhost, so you
can change settings, like document root and CGI settings. Some settings
can be set to replicate to all hosts/virtual hosts on the system, but
settings define within one host don't copy to others.

If you had installed Drupal into the host of localhost:80, then it would
use the settings for that host. This would have required you installing
Drupal in your base document root. It appears that you told the system
you wanted a new document root, so it created a new virtual host, on a
different port, which means you need to configure it for all the options
you need.

-- 
Richard Damon