rewalk failure - can't find report.html

jamon · Post by **jamon** » Fri May 26, 2006 8:58 am

The logs just show file not found errors.

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.

Post by **John** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:53 am

It sounds like either an extension restriction or some other ISAPI filter blocking the request before it gets to the CGI layer. Does the login link work with .htm instead of .html?

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.

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

Correct. Everything after the /cgi-bin/texis.exe is passed to texis.exe to interpret as it runs the script. The first portion (/webinator/dowalk) tells it which script to run, and the /login.html or /report.html tells it what to do in the script if not the default.

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.

Post by **John** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:51 pm

Can you get to http://wmctest/cgi-bin/texis.exe/webina ... /login.htm ? If so something doesn't like .html as a file extension.

Since dowalk is working the cgi-bin is working correctly.