Web publishing works now but I cannot get to work.

Am using a web server locally - c:\xitami.

OICGI.EXE lives in c:\xitami\cgi-bin.

TEXTURE.GIF also exists in c:\xitami\cgi-bin.

When I call the HTM page (irepord.htm)the page displays and then the debugger is invoked with the following message:

Fatal Runtime Error - Sys1000: Error loading program INET_TEXTURE.GIF

I suspect that a path needs to be prefixed to the BACKGROUND line as I have placed TEXTURE.GIF in various places without success. What are the rules if any? Xitami says that hostname is http://comdata, and I use the following URL to call page:

http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/oicgi.exe/INET_REPOS?DOC_ID=IREPORD.

If I do this the page loads successfully but without the background texture.

Leigh,

Web publishing works now but I cannot get to work. Am using a web server locally - c:\xitami. OICGI.EXE lives in c:\xitami\cgi-bin. TEXTURE.GIF also exists in c:\xitami\cgi-bin.

I think it's customary (necessary??) to have programs only (CGIs, like OICGI) in the cgi-bin folder. I'm sure you have your html pages in a different folder. Put your GIF where you have your html pages. Then just should work. If you prefer to have your GIFs in a separate folder, e.g in a sub-folder IMAGES of your documents folder you can do . Etc.

When I call the HTM page (irepord.htm)the page displays and then the debugger is invoked with the following message: Fatal Runtime Error - Sys1000: Error loading program INET_TEXTURE.GIF

I think what might be happening is when something follows "…/CGI-BIN/" the web server assumes this something is the name of a CGI program, or in our case with OI and OICGI that it's the name of an OpenInsight internet procedure. OpenInsight internet procedures must have names starting with "INET_", and supposedly OICGI prefixes that string to anything not starting with "INET_". And then it tells OpenEngine to run that procedure - in your case the procedure INET_TEXTURE.GIF. Which doesn't exist. And OpenEngine balks and brings up the debugger.

- Oystein -

Dear Oystein

I appreciate your help. Nothing seems to work, I have tried just about every concievable combination of path statments for BODY BACKGROUND=TEXTURE.GIF".

The web server software, Xitami, is setup on C:\XITAMI:

It has some subdirectories \webpages\images.

The Main HTML directory is: webpages

The Main CGI directory is: cgi-bin

I have placed TEXTURE.GIF and ACRLOGO.GIF in c:\xitami\webpages\images but this fails too. Also exist in c:\revsoft\oinsight\html.

Some paths I have tried:

"/webpages/images/texture.gif"

"./webpages/images/texture.gif"

"../webpages/images/texture.gif"

"/revsoft/oinsight/html/texture.gif"

Whenever I use "./, INET_…..crashes into the debugger; same with just "texture.gif"

I have tried all this with Opera and IE4 browsers with the same results, so I don't think it is a browser problem.

It must have something to do with path structure, but it has elluded me so far.

Leigh…[email protected]

Can you make a static HTML page that has an image displayed in it? What is the path you specify for the image?

You should then be able to do the same for OICGI-generated HTML. At the worst, you will just have to fully qualify the path, for example:

http://www.mysite.com/img/super.gif

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software

A fully qualified path of:

http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/texture.gif

does not work. Neither does one which paths to REVSOFT/OINSIGHT/HTML/TEXTURE.GIF.

bACK TO YOU!!!

Well

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Leigh,

In think I know what you do wrong, but let's do this thoroughly in case it's something else.

The web server software, Xitami, is setup on C:\XITAMI: It has some subdirectories \webpages\images. The Main HTML directory is: webpages The Main CGI directory is: cgi-bin

Let's compare systems:

I have my server on D:\httpd\. That would correspond to your C:\XITAMI\.

I have my CGIs (OICGI) in the subfolder D:\httpd\cgi-bin\, corresponding to your C:\XITAMI\cgi-bin.

I have my web pages in the subfolder D:\httpd\htdocs\. That's the default html folder for my server.

Every html page and image I have are in D:\httpd\htdocs\ or its subfolders. As far as I know the server cannot access pages and images lying outside that folder, for security reasons. So you must have your images in C:\XITAMI\webpages\, or a subfolder thereof.

That's why

"/revsoft/oinsight/html/texture.gif"

fails, and that's why your earlier attempts with the gif in the C:\XITAMI\cgi-bin folder failed.

Your other attempts

"/webpages/images/texture.gif"

"./webpages/images/texture.gif"

"../webpages/images/texture.gif"

fail because the web server sort of regards C:\XITAMI\webpages\ as the root of where it keeps its documents and images. So try with the simple relative path

"images/texture.gif"

That should work if you have your html page in C:\XITAMI\webpages\ and your gif in C:\XITAMI\webpages\images\.

"/images/texture.gif"

should work too.

If you're still unsuccessful, perhaps C:\XITAMI\webpages\ isn't your server root. Bring up your web server program and check what the root is.

- Oystein -

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