[OSM-dev] how to setup api/xapi server?

[Mateusz L]

Hello!
I am writing student project whitch needs occasionaly download osm data 
(nodes to be exact). Normal API is no-go - sometimes I nead bigger 
boundaries than avilable through API. XAPI hardly ever works, so I decided 
to try and setup it's mirror. I started with http://weait.com/content/build-
your-own-openstreetmap-server and ommited last part (I don't need tiles). 
Now I need some CGI API to fetch XML over HTTP. What(/how) should I use, 
since http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/scripts seems to be permamently down? 
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Mateusz