Installing Livecode Server

LiveCode Server can be installed on Mac, Windows and Linux servers.

For each supported platform, LiveCode Server is distributed as a single .zip file containing the server engine, drivers and externals as well as release notes. The engine can be run in two separate modes, command line mode or CGI mode.

To run the engine in command line mode, unzip the appropriate archive for your platform, then execute the livecode-server binary (e.g. livecode-server.exe on Windows) from the command line, passing the initial script as the first argument. For example:

To run the engine in CGI mode, the engine needs to be integrated with the web server software running on your machine. There are various web server packages available, most of which should be compatible with LiveCode Server. In the lessons below we describe how to setup for the most popular package, Apache.