rewalk failure - can't find report.html

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:27 am

Some things that were working a couple days ago aren't working today. So, we reinstalled from scratch. Still no good. I'll keep you posted.

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:12 am

So, none of these files are real, physical files, right?

Post by **mark** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:56 am

Given http://server/cgi-bin/texis.exe/webinat ... /page.html
"texis.exe" is a real program in cgi-bin. "dowalk" is a real script in the webinator directory. "+xyz" is state information for texis.exe and dowalk. "page" is a function within the dowalk script (not a file on disk). ".html" tells dowalk you want html back.

So you should find texis.exe and dowalk, but not page.html. If the webserver says 404 not found that means it didn't even get as far as finding texis.exe. If it had it should have passed the rest of the url to texis for it figure out (standard CGI behavior). Perhaps the state information is confusing your webserver and causing it to misbehave.

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:58 pm

Okay. Well, I'm totally confused now. We CAN get to dowalk, but not to anything with anything after dowalk in the URL. So, I can get to http://wmctest/cgi-bin/texis.exe/webinator/dowalk, but not to .../dowalk/login.html, or .../dowalk/logout.html or ....

If the cgi-bin were not working, would I be able to get to dowalk at all?

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:03 pm

I just noticed that on our old (production) machine, the upper right-hand corner of the dowalk screen says "Webinator 5.1.10-Windows-w/plugin." In the newly installed stuff, it just says "Webinator"

What does that mean?

We used our commercial Webinator CD to do the installation.

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:07 pm

If I log into the box and go the the installdir and run texis.exe -version, I see this:

Texis Web Script (Vortex) Copyright (c) 1996-2005 Thunderstone - EPI, Inc.
Commercial Webinator Version 5.01.1109610969 20050228 (i686-intel-winnt-32-32)

I see the exact same thing from the cgi-bin directory version of texis.exe.

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:58 pm

No. I get the same error as with login.html.

Here's what's in the vortex.log file:

002 2006-05-26 15:54:16 /webinator/dowalk/login: Can't open source file: No such file or directory

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:59 pm

monitor.log has lots and lots of these:

200 2006-05-26 15:57:49 (2592) Got Message 4 in the function ServiceHandler
200 2006-05-26 15:58:20 (2592) Got Message 4 in the function ServiceHandler
200 2006-05-26 15:58:20 (2592) Got Message 4 in the function ServiceHandler
200 2006-05-26 15:58:50 (2592) Got Message 4 in the function ServiceHandler
200 2006-05-26 15:58:50 (2592) Got Message 4 in the function ServiceHandler

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:10 pm

I don't have a texis.cnf file in the install directory on the non-working box or the working box. What's the content/format of that file. Can you send me one?

The old boxes are Windows 2000, v5, SP4, running ColdFusion v6 and v6.1 and IIS.

The new boxes are Windows 2003, v5.2, SP1. , ColdFusion 7, and IIS v6.0.

On the new boxes, CF is running as a domain account, and Webinator is running as SYSTEM.

The old boxes were not in a domain.

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:12 pm

I can't create it. The OS is telling me it's already there, but I can't see it. I'm not hiding file extensions. I'm showing hidden files. I'm even showing hidden system files. What am I missing? I'm apparently not enough of a windows geek for this. Give me unix or a Mac any day of the week. This is driving me nuts.