Hello,

I just tried the Alaska-WAA-samples.
All the samples are running, but only if I modifiy the Alaska-HTM-files:

Original:
  <FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe" METHOD=POST>

Modified:
  <FORM ACTION="http://localhost/cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe" METHOD=POST>

The httpd.conf.from Appache 2.0  includes the line:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/alaska/waa1w32/gateway/w32/"

Somebody knows, what can be wrong with my configuration?

regards
Olaf870

Olaf,

> Original:
>   <FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe" METHOD=POST>
> 
> Modified:
>   <FORM ACTION="http://localhost/cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe" METHOD=POST>

The original and modified version of the links are logically identical, so
changing them won't make any different.

> The httpd.conf.from Appache 2.0  includes the line:
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/alaska/waa1w32/gateway/w32/"
> 
> Somebody knows, what can be wrong with my configuration?

The only thing that can be wrong is that waa1gate.exe does not actually live
in the directory specified as the right side of te ScriptAlias directive, so
check that it is correct.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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Phil,

>> The httpd.conf.from Appache 2.0  includes the line:
>> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/alaska/waa1w32/gateway/w32/"
>>
>> Somebody knows, what can be wrong with my configuration?

>The only thing that can be wrong is that waa1gate.exe does not actually 
>live
>in the directory specified as the right side of te ScriptAlias directive, 
>so
>check that it is correct.

Thanks for your help. I checked this::

C:>dir c:\alaska\waa1w32\gateway\w32\*.exe
 Datentrger in Laufwerk C: ist AMD_1300MHZ
 Volumeseriennummer: 364D-18FC

 Verzeichnis von c:\alaska\waa1w32\gateway\w32

27.04.2006  12:14            53.248 waa1gate.exe
               1 Datei(en)         53.248 Bytes

You can see that "waa1gate.exe" is in this directory.

regards
Olaf870

Olaf,
your ScriptAlias has to point to a dircetory below your webroot.

Regards,
Martin

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Martin Altmann wrote:

> Olaf,
> your ScriptAlias has to point to a dircetory below your webroot.

Of course not. 

Contrary, it is recommended not to put the script directory below the
document root, note the remark in the red box:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias

I don't think the problem is directly related to the scriptalias directive,
otherwise a simple change in the request URL would not cause one request to
work and the other to fail.

Olaf, could you please post a few lines from the apache servers log, so we
can see how the requests look like?

And please, tell us the exact symptom of the failure - "it does not work"
is not specific enough...

HTH
Thomas

Thanks you all for your help.

Here is one line:
192.168.112.252 - - [24/May/2007:17:26:56 +0200] "GET 
/cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe?WAA_PACKAGE=test&WAA_FORM=lldemo HTTP/1.1" 200 1780
When I try to access withOut http://localhost  infront, i dont get an entry 
in the log.
regards
Olaf870

"Thomas Braun" <spam@software-braun.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:eic2k718fr5e$.129fp8fdxhbyh.dlg@40tude.net...
> Martin Altmann wrote:
>
>> Olaf,
>> your ScriptAlias has to point to a dircetory below your webroot.
>
> Of course not.
>
> Contrary, it is recommended not to put the script directory below the
> document root, note the remark in the red box:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias
>
> I don't think the problem is directly related to the scriptalias 
> directive,
> otherwise a simple change in the request URL would not cause one request 
> to
> work and the other to fail.
>
> Olaf, could you please post a few lines from the apache servers log, so we
> can see how the requests look like?
>
> And please, tell us the exact symptom of the failure - "it does not work"
> is not specific enough...
>
> HTH
> Thomas

Olaf870 wrote:

> Thanks you all for your help.
> 
> Here is one line:
> 192.168.112.252 - - [24/May/2007:17:26:56 +0200] "GET 
> /cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe?WAA_PACKAGE=test&WAA_FORM=lldemo HTTP/1.1" 200 1780
> When I try to access withOut http://localhost  infront, i don´t get an entry 
> in the log.

The above is from access.log - right?

There is really nothing in error.log?

May I repeat my last question: What is the symptom? (=what message in the
browser?)

Thomas

Thomas
>> Here is one line:
>> 192.168.112.252 - - [24/May/2007:17:26:56 +0200] "GET
>> /cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe?WAA_PACKAGE=test&WAA_FORM=lldemo HTTP/1.1" 200 1780
>> When I try to access withOut http://localhost  infront, i dont get an 
>> entry
>> in the log.
>
> The above is from access.log - right?
Yes. Right.

>
> There is really nothing in error.log?
Only the normal things, I think

>
> May I repeat my last question: What is the symptom? (=what message in the
> browser?)

There is not any message. The click is just doing nothing.

I attached all the relevant files. All entries in access.log result from 
calling http://localhost in front off "/cgi-bin/".
I http://localhost is missing, there is no action, when I call my page from 
the same computer where Apache is running.

Perhaps this can be helpful for analyse the problem:
When I access on the same computer via dynalias.org, I can see my pages with 
and without http://localhost in front too.
When I access from another computer via Internet and dynalias.org get a 
error-message from the IExplorer: "The page cannot be displayed ..".

regards
Olaf870 

Olaf,
if it is working from inside, it is working from outside as well (as far as 
Apache and WAA is concerned!!)
Have you configured your firewall to accept incoming http-calls (via port 
80) and route it to your local IP (of the pc your Apache is running on)?
The latter is only necessary when running a HW firewall (router)....

Regards,
Martin

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Martin,
thank you for your answer.
> Have you configured your firewall to accept incoming http-calls (via port 
> 80) and route it to your local IP (of the pc your Apache is running on)?

Yes, I did.

The problem is really difficult: It is not running from inside in all cases.
Let us perhaps concentrate at the following point:
All the  alaska-waa-samples dont run with unchanged code: I have I have to 
add "http://localhost/" in from off /CGI-BIN/.... to make them run.

I remember well that with Apache 1.5 all the alaska-samples were running 
fine...

Can somebody can send me perhaps his good-running "httpd.conf" with the 
alaska-standard-directories?
regards
Olaf870



"Martin Altmann" <Altmann@altem.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Olaf,
> if it is working from inside, it is working from outside as well (as far 
> as Apache and WAA is concerned!!)
> Have you configured your firewall to accept incoming http-calls (via port 
> 80) and route it to your local IP (of the pc your Apache is running on)?
> The latter is only necessary when running a HW firewall (router)....
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
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Hi all,

problem solved.

When I call the Alaska-samples it like this:
"iexplorer localhost"
all is running without modifications (docroot is
"iexplorer c:\alaska\waa1w32\source\samples\waa")

I the past I tried allways this:
"iexplorer c:\alaska\waa1w32\source\samples\waa"

Regards
Olaf870

Olaf,

> problem solved.
> 
> When I call the Alaska-samples it like this:
> "iexplorer localhost"
> all is running without modifications (docroot is
> "iexplorer c:\alaska\waa1w32\source\samples\waa")
> 
> I the past I tried allways this:
> "iexplorer c:\alaska\waa1w32\source\samples\waa"

That would explain it.  In the top example, you are invoking the web page
via HTTP, in the second example, you are just opening a local file.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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