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Offline editing without conneting
Hi,

I Installed OmniHTTPD to be able to edit dbMan offline (W98). It's all working fine except for one thing.

I use http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi

Explorer keeps asking me to connect. First with the simple confirm box (connect / stay offline). I will have to click connect, and then in the next window I choose cancel instead of connecting. My request/action will then be proceeded without making an internet connection but this gets quite annoying after 10 times...

Has somebody got a suggestion on how to solve this? I tried some different settings in IE without succes.

Thanks
Giller


Thanks a lot!
Byebye
Gil
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Try Apache Wink

HOWEVER, are you sure the web server is running properly?

I have experienced this once or twice and that is usually the problem.

Have you got the server config set up properly also?

Try using localhost instead of 127.0.0.1 to see if that is any better.

Paul Wilson.
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Hi Paul,

Webserver is running great, all webservers are. I use a few of them to show demo websites and for testing CGI scripts.

I tried both localhost, and http://ip-address, without success. These addresses are active. Still I have to confirm all the time whether or not to make a connection as soon as I refresh a page :(

Thanks,

Gil

Thanks a lot!
Byebye
Gil
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Sounds like you have not properly configured your TCP/IP configurations...

Also, you may have to install an additional client (like Client for MS Networks) in order for the web server to operate properly with your scripts.

Regards,

Eliot Lee
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I,ve found that MIE5 will do that and i,ve never found a way to stop it.
Earlier versions don't seem to be to bad.
Use Netscape, it dosn't do that so its a lot less frustrating, although still check your stuff with MIE as well.

Bob
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Hey Gil,

you might like to try Xitami server works fine for me.
I posted a how to for links, dbman would work the same, its at:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...amp;Old=allpostslink

chmod


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Hi everybody,

Thanks for helping me out. I forgot about the gossamer-powered-by gif file. This caused IE to keep asking to make a connection. Now that's what I call stupid,

Any way, I don't exactly know why I never installed Perl on my local system. I knew it wouldn't be a very difficult job, but somehow I never tried it. I guess I was too busy uploading files to my server. The way it is now, I am all happy about Perl and PhP again. Have been tweaking ->uploading->testing for more then two years, and I really wish I would have installed Perl and PhP on my local system earlier. Especially because there's not much I've learned from setting file permissions on perl scripts.

+ I did get Apache but it seems a little harder to install then most webservers so I haven't tested it yet.

Byebye
Gil



Thanks a lot!
Byebye
Gil
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It is as simple as any other.

I assume your have a Windows PC - so you just download the msi package (Self-Installing) and it will install everything for you then you just double click apache.exe after checking everything is ok in httpd.conf and bob's you uncle.

Yesterday I installed Apache 1.3.19, Perl, Cold Fusion Enterprise and it took about 1 hour for all three and most of that time was downloading the files with my 56k modem :)


Paul Wilson.
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Oh, I guess I downloaded the wrong version :). I allready started looking for a c-compiler so most probably I downloaded the open source version.

Thanks a lot!
Byebye
Gil
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You most probably were downloading the tar.gz version for Unix

You need a binary distribution

I think the URL is something like....

http://www.apache.org/pub/dist/httpd/binaries/

Paul Wilson.
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