========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:39:59 +0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: WEB daemon Subject: Re: "Document contains no data" error In-Reply-To: <199606281152.OAA19439@gatekeeper.cyprus.eu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Hi, Hello. > This does look like a GNN server error and not a CGI script error. Any > ideas??? Ergh, I reach this errors too. It's __only__ script problems. I use python and got this problem if my print constructions (print "somestring") are not contain closed signs ('or") or contain a strange symbols "\002". > thanx, > demetris Vladimir > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 02:45:45 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Nicolas Rosner Subject: Uploading initial data for a DB Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi there. I'm hosting a few sites by means of NaviService. I'm now thinking 'bout= building a new one, but this one will require interaction with a database. My question is: how does one normally upload the initial data to the server?= I've seen some pretty HTML forms for adding, modifying and deleting records= (and I could easily customize them, too) but what about the first bunch of= 5,000+ records? I suppose I don't have to retype them while online ... :-) Thanks Nico ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 16:34:06 -0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Heisler Subject: Prompt for authorization on reload Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Is there a way to get web browsers to prompt for authorization every time a page is requested? Can something be sent out to force a browser to forget authdata? I have a script that looks up info in a table based on an authorized users username. It works asuming only one user will be using that particular browser. I would like to have an authorization box pop up when a user presses reload in their browser. Currently the authorization box only comes up if it is the first visit to the url or if authorization fails. It would be easy enough achieve all this with a form and check permisions in the script but I would prefer having a dialog box pop up. <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< Hal M. Heisler heisler@teleport.com Portland, OR ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:23:42 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Krish Menon Subject: Re: "Document contains no data" error Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:39 AM 7/1/96 +0400, you wrote: >> Hi, > Hello. >> This does look like a GNN server error and not a CGI script error. Any >> ideas??? > Ergh, I reach this errors too. It's __only__ script problems. I >use python and got this problem if my print constructions (print >"somestring") are not contain closed signs ('or") or contain a strange >symbols "\002". This is a CGI script error. If you check the server log, you'll probably see something to the effect of 'error waiting for CGI to exit', or 'CGI exited with signal 11'. The best way to debug CGIs is to set the appropriate environment variables (CONTENT_LENGTH for POST and QUERY_STRING for GET) and try running the program on the command line; Strange things can also happen if you forget to flush stdout, in the event of calling another program from your CGI. -krish -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> krish menon, webmaster - iway internet services |*| krish@iw.net * 140 n. phillips, suite #404, sioux falls sd 57102 |*| webstart@iw.net * telephone: (605) 331-4211 (w) (605) 331-6585 (h) |*| http://www.iw.net * <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:52:08 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Richard Galpin Subject: Intel PC plus NT as a server. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, I am in the planning stages of setting up a new web server using the GNNServer. Before I used a Sun sever which worked fine. For my new project I am under more price pressure and need to use lower cost PC hardware. The logical fit to this is to use WindowsNT. Can anyone who is using this configuration with the GNNServer please give me some feedback about their experiences. My project will consist of a significant number of web sites, probably more than 40, but each with a relatively low transfer rate. Given each web site will need it's own IP address I would like to know your experinces in configuring NT to address this while using the GNNServer. I am planning to use 64MB of RAM, is this enough. Any general information about your experiences with this configuration would be most helpful. Regards, Richard Replies here or direct to rjg@webdepot.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 11:08:00 PDT Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Lustig, Rob ITT/FSC" Subject: Naviserver Locks up on NT 3.51 --> Update on problem I orginally reported a problem with Naviserver locking up. I took the advice to upgrade to version 2.03, yet still experience the problems. Further troubleshooting seems to point toward the socket. When I stop then start the services, it reports that it is listening on the socket, but I can't access the pages. When I try the HTTP that came with the NT Resource Kit, it reports the socket as in use. I did a netstat and looked at socket 80. It shows a long list of computers with a CLOSE_WAIT. Is there any utilities to close those sessions out without having to restart the server? Should I increase a value somewhere? Regards, Rob Lustig - Network Engineer in Space and Missile Country: VAFB SMTP: LUSTIG@FSC.VAFB.AF.MIL or LustigR@FSC-PLANS.VAFB.AF.MIL (805) 734-8232 ext. 5-0473 Building:7015 3rd flr. dept:AP220 Vandenberg AFB, Ca 93437-5321 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 13:47:00 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: LANDON_DICK@Tandem.COM Subject: Sybase connection I was looking for people that have connected via odbc to sybase. I have the MS SQL Server ODBC driver sqlsrv32.dll and Open Client w3dblib.dll and wdbwsktc.dll. I configured a working connect in another program (gql) that has an additional connection dialog box that includes a Host name but less the connection string wdbwsktc.dll,,, which appears in the MS ODBC data source connection box using driver sqlsrv32.dll). I get in the server log: sql server not found I will try to pass the Host parameter in the naviserver pool configuration. Any help would be appreciated. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:29:44 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Intel PC plus NT as a server. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:52 AM 7/1/96 -0700, Richard Galpin wrote: >Hello, > >I am in the planning stages of setting up a new >web server using the GNNServer. Before I used a >Sun sever which worked fine. For my new >project I am under more price pressure and >need to use lower cost PC hardware. The >logical fit to this is to use WindowsNT. If you're a Unix head, consider Intel Solaris as well. Intel Solaris works just like Sparc Solaris with the following exceptions: - SSL isn't available - The Illustra server is unsupported (Note: You can run Illustra on SunOS or Windows NT and access it from Intel Solaris. You can also run an older, unsupported version of Illustra on Intel Solaris but you'll still need a supported machine as a license server). I'm not saying Windows NT is a bad platform - in fact it's our most popular platform and we are very careful to make sure all functionality is supported on both NT and Unix. However, if you're an experienced Unix user, Intel Solaris may be easier for you to get up and running on. Linux and FreeBSD are not supported. >Can anyone who is using this configuration >with the GNNServer please give me some >feedback about their experiences. > >My project will consist of a significant number >of web sites, probably more than 40, but each >with a relatively low transfer rate. > >Given each web site will need it's own IP address >I would like to know your experinces in configuring >NT to address this while using the GNNServer. See: http://www.tools.gnn.com/server/docs/2.01/con-ch2.htm for more info. Note that the instructions say 16 is the limit on a single interface but I've heard of people configuring many more. I think Intel Solaris can easily handle 100 or more aliases. You could also try adding multiple interfaces on NT, each with 16 addresses. >I am planning to use 64MB of RAM, is this enough. This should be enough as long as you don't install Illustra or some other memory and cpu hog on the same machine. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:41:29 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Illustra Install Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 09:41 PM 6/29/96 +0200, Michael Dettmer wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I=B4m new to this LG. >When installing Illustra (NT-Version 3.1) I get the errors: > >Error =B439=B4 while selecting *.* from "all the archives".z > >Any suggestions, please !? >Damaged "ill31nt.exe" ? Hello, Illustra and GNNserver are only supported on NT 3.51, not 3.1 (or even 3.5). In addition, we've had several reports that Illustra locks on NT Server (instead of Workstation). Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson =20 jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:11:34 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Christof Schmidbauer Subject: Re: Intel PC plus NT as a server. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It seems that you plan to run a multihomed NT-Server with 40 plus IP-Addresses. Although I would call myself a NT-Advocate I would stay away from NT for this purpose. I am running a single-homed GNNServer on a Intel-Box with 32 Mb and it works flawless. Therefore I did consider running NT for multihomed setup. According to information I picked up in comp.infosystems.www.server.ms-windows, NT suffers from a bug in it=B4s= TCP/IP stack which is making it nearly impossible to run more than 16 IP-Addresses. One user reported a setup where he could run a maximum of 21 IP-Addresses. According to one posting Microsoft will fix this bug in the final release of Windows NT 4.0. So your premier choice is propably SunSolaris for Intel. At 08:52 01.07.96 -0700, you wrote: >Hello, > >I am in the planning stages of setting up a new >web server using the GNNServer. Before I used a >Sun sever which worked fine. For my new >project I am under more price pressure and >need to use lower cost PC hardware. The >logical fit to this is to use WindowsNT. [...] ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 22:09:29 +0000 Reply-To: tlandfried@cyberhost.com Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Todd Landfried Organization: Cyberhost Subject: Re: Intel PC plus NT as a server. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Here's my two cents worth. NT is fine as a Web server platform. There are lots of programs available for it and more are being written and released every day. The best advice I can give you is buy memory. I suggest at least 64Mb of RAM and nothing less than a Pentium. Regarding Intel Solaris, my experience and recommendation would be to avoid it. We looked into it for an ISP business and although Sun says it is "binary compatible" with Sun Solaris, that doesn't mean that programs compiled for Sun will run on x86. It means that you can recompile the source (with some changes) so it will run on Intel. This is no easy feat. And besides, if you call up Netscape and say "can you give me the source code for your Enterprise Server so I can run it on Solaris for x86," what do you think they'll say? There are woefully few products out for Solaris for x86 and they usually aren't on anyone's high priority list. If you need an Intel UNIX box, I'd suggest BSD or Linux before I'd consider Solaris for x86. Todd Landfried ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:09:19 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Alex Finkel Subject: SUMMARY: Illustra problems on Windows NT 3.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A few weeks ago I wrote to the list about problems I was having getting Illustra to run under Windows NT 3.51. The problems went away when I installed the Microsoft NT Service Pack #4. I would recommend to anyone using NT 3.51, to install the latest service packs. Since the service packs replace almost the entire installation of NT with newer versions of the files, the Service Packs probably fix a large number of problems. Service Packs are available from Microsoft's Web and FTP sites. - Alex -- (( / \ )) | Alex Finkel | 26 Landsdowne St. | Macintosh, Jr. / \ | Network Manager | University Park at MIT | / \ | PFN, Incorporated | Cambridge, MA 02139 | The power to crush / P F N \ | afinkel@pfn.com | http://www.pfn.com/ | the other kids. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:24:29 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeffrey Gustafson Subject: ANNOUNCE: POSIX and DCE threads V1.0 for Linux now available (inc source) Comments: To: Jim Davidson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------51BC62AEDF03D1040871410" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------51BC62AEDF03D1040871410 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Will this annoucement help get a GNNServer 2.x for Linux? GNNServer needs the POSIC .1c threads support, correct? If so, check out this package since this seems to be more actively supported than the MIT package. http://ww2.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/news?msg@8850@comp%2eos%2elinux%2edevelopment%2eapps%26POSIX+and+DCE --------------51BC62AEDF03D1040871410 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="news" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="news" Content-Base: "http://ww2.altavista.digital.com/cgi-b in/news?msg@8850@comp%2eos%2elinux% 2edevelopment%2eapps%26POSIX+and+DC E" ANNOUNCE: POSIX and DCE threads V1.0 for Linux now available (inc source)

ANNOUNCE: POSIX and DCE threads V1.0 for Linux now available (inc source)

From           "M. Terry Peterson" <mtp@big.aa.net>
Organization   Alternate Access Incorporated
Date           Sun, 30 Jun 1996 22:28:54 -0700
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The production release of PCthreads (tm) and DCE threads for Linux has been
uploaded to both sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu.  Both kits have been in
Beta test for about 9 months and have been dramatically improved because of
feedback I have received.  I apologize for not answering all of you, but
time just wasn't available.  The kits should be available within a few days
depending on how backlogged the uploads have become.

The two distributions (PCthreads (tm) and DCE threads) include full source
(including Makefiles, etc.,) for the following libraries:

    libpthread      ELF and AOUT version of POSIX .1c multithread library
    libpthread_dce  ELF and AOUT versions of DCE threads.
    libpthread-ext  ELF and AOUT versions of DCE exception handling
    libsock_r       ELF and AOUT thread-safe versions of BSD socket library
    liblock         ELF and AOUT versions of shared/exclusive locks and
                    priority locks (minimize priority inversion).

The following are the LSM files for PCthreads (tm) and DCE threads respectively.

Cheers,

/mtp

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Title:          PCthreads (tm) POSIX threads for Linux
Version:        Version 1.0
Entered-date:   30JUNE96
Description:    POSIX threads for Linux is a fully functional and [hopefully]
                conformant implementation of the POSIX .1c standard.  This
                distribution contains the build and source files to build a
                POSIX .1c multithread library in both ELF and AOUT formats.
Keywords:       POSIX, multithreading, pthreads, multiple threads, DCE
Author:         mtp@big.aa.net or mtp@zso.dec.com (Michael T. Peterson)
Maintained-by:  mtp@big.aa.net or mtp@zso.dec.com (Michael T. Peterson)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/devel/lang/c
Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu <TBD>
Original-site:
Platforms:      Linux/Intel platforms, Versions 1.3.39 to V2.x
Copying-policy: GNU copyleft applies. "Freely Redistributable
End

Begin3
Title:          DCE threads for Linux
Version:        Version 1.0
Entered-date:   30JUNE96
Description:    DCE threads for Linux is a fully functional implementation of
                DCE threads (Draft 4 of the POSIX .1c standard).  The
                distribution contains the build and source files to (1) a
                DCE-compatible threads library, (2) a port of the DCE threads
                exception handling package, (3) A thread-blocking socket I/O
                package, and numerous illustrative multithreaded coding
                examples.  The following libraries are provided (or may be
                build) in both A.OUT and ELF formats
Keywords:       POSIX, multithreading, pthreads, multiple threads, DCE
Author:         mtp@big.aa.net or mtp@zso.dec.com (Michael T. Peterson)
Maintained-by:  mtp@big.aa.net or mtp@zso.dec.com (Michael T. Peterson)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/devel/lang/c
Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu <TBD>
Original-site:
Platforms:      Linux/Intel platforms, Versions 1.3.39 to V2.x
Copying-policy: GNU copyleft applies. "Freely Redistributable
End





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--------------51BC62AEDF03D1040871410-- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:39:11 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Sybase connection Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:47 PM 7/1/96 -0700, LANDON_DICK@Tandem.COM wrote: >I was looking for people that have connected via odbc to sybase. I have >the MS SQL Server ODBC driver sqlsrv32.dll and Open Client w3dblib.dll >and wdbwsktc.dll. > >I configured a working connect in another program (gql) that has an >additional connection dialog box that includes a Host name but less the >connection string wdbwsktc.dll,,, which appears in the MS ODBC >data source connection box using driver sqlsrv32.dll). > >I get in the server log: sql server not found > >I will try to pass the Host parameter in the naviserver pool >configuration. > >Any help would be appreciated. Hello, Here's a common problem to check: Are you using a "system dsn"? A system datasource is accessible to the GNNserver when it runs as a service as the "system account". If you just logged into the machine as a random user and configured the datasource it would only be available to that user, not the system account. This means that if you run the GNNserver as that same user in a console window (i.e., bin\nsd -fc nsd.ini) it will connect just fine but when you try starting the service it won't. Now there are two ways to fix this: 1. Configure the datasource as a "system datasource" using the latest odbc control panel or 2. Use the services control panel to configure the GNNserver to start as the user you configured the datasource with. Hope this helps. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:36:10 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Intel PC plus NT as a server. Comments: To: tlandfried@cyberhost.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:09 PM 7/1/96 +0000, Todd Landfried wrote: >Here's my two cents worth. NT is fine as a Web server platform. There >are lots of programs available for it and more are being written and >released every day. The best advice I can give you is buy memory. I >suggest at least 64Mb of RAM and nothing less than a Pentium. > >Regarding Intel Solaris, my experience and recommendation would be to >avoid it. We looked into it for an ISP business and although Sun says it is >"binary compatible" with Sun Solaris, that doesn't mean that programs >compiled for Sun will run on x86. It means that you can recompile >the source (with some changes) so it will run on Intel. This is no >easy feat. And besides, if you call up Netscape and say "can you give >me the source code for your Enterprise Server so I can run it on >Solaris for x86," what do you think they'll say? There are woefully >few products out for Solaris for x86 and they usually aren't on >anyone's high priority list. If you need an Intel UNIX box, I'd >suggest BSD or Linux before I'd consider Solaris for x86. Hello, If you are willing to run Apache than Linux or FreeBSD will work fine. However, to run GNNserver you will need Intel Solaris because there are currently no plans for GNNserver 2.1 on Linux or FreeBSD (this topic has been covered many times on the list - suffice it to say Linux and FreeBSD don't have an adequate threads interface to support GNNserver). It has been our experience that Intel Solaris is 100% source code compatible with Sparc Solaris. In fact, there is no code anywhere in GNNserver specific to Intel Solaris - the "port" was really just a recompile using all the same compile options we use for Sparc Solaris. It is true that much commercial software isn't available for Intel Solaris. However, GNNserver is available (along with Netsite Commerce Server - IBM is re-selling it) and while you can't run Illustra locally on Intel Solaris you can access a remote Illustra server just fine. Also, much of the world of CGI is simply Perl scripts and you can definitely get the latest version of Perl for Intel Solaris. One final note: SunSoft has recently reconfirmed their commitment to Intel Solaris, admitting that they haven't been putting much effort into promoting it in the past. This is a good move for Sun - Sparc is a good chip but in the end it can't compete with Intel. To stay in the OS business they're going to have to support and promote Intel hardware. I'm hoping this will translate into a larger and more active Intel Solaris community where all the goodies available for Sparc Solaris are also available for Intel Solaris. So, the recommendation from the GNNserver development team: Intel Solaris is an excellent OS for GNNserver. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:21:29 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Stew Stryker Subject: What the heck is AOLPress? I stumbled into the GNNPress web site and saw a message stating: 7/1/96 Note: Our Windows version is now available as AOLpress 1.2. Our Windows version is no longer in beta, though we still welcome any bug reports and general comments and feedback. I'm having trouble fathoming the depths of this statement, so could someone in the know please clarify? 1) Is the current production release of GNNPress V1.2 going to be henceforth known as AOLPress? (Bad move, I'd say, marketing-wise) 2) Is the beta done, and AOLPress the V1.2 version we're supposed to download? Sorry to be so dense. Thanks, Stew ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 13:29:09 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: What the heck is AOLPress? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 06:21 PM 7/2/96 -0400, you wrote: >I stumbled into the GNNPress web site and saw a message stating: > > 7/1/96 Note: Our Windows version is now available as AOLpress 1.2. > Our Windows version is no longer in beta, though we still > welcome any bug reports and general comments and feedback. > >I'm having trouble fathoming the depths of this statement, so could someone >in the know please clarify? > >1) Is the current production release of GNNPress V1.2 going to be >henceforth known as AOLPress? (Bad move, I'd say, marketing-wise) > >2) Is the beta done, and AOLPress the V1.2 version we're supposed to >download? We are now offering the 'press software as AOLpress. The GNNpress version will continue to be produced as well, although it is intended primarily for members of the GNN service. In short, yes, I do suggest upgrading to AOLpress 1.2... That's what I'm using now. Jeff Rawlings rawlings@gnnhost.com Webmaster, GNN Hosting Service http://www.gnnhost.com/ Moderator, gnnhost-l and gnndeveloper-l For inquiries about Web Hosting, send email to ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 11:15:03 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Chris Umali Subject: Web Browser re-direct Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, Has anyone implemented a tcl script that does a web browser re-direct, based on the browser, and also based on what type of plug-ins a user has? For example, someones who uses netscape gets the shockwave.htm file, while someone who uses netscape but doesn't have the shockwave plug-in gets the nonshockwave.htm page. And also another scenario like Internet Explorer getting a page that is also nonshockwave.htm Thanks & Have a nice day, Chris Umali Assistant WebMaster Envision Group, NetWerks chris@netwerks.com http://www.netwerks.com 310-523-2000 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 16:13:48 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Cass Tyson Subject: GNNserver vs AOLserver Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" http://www.aolserver.com/server/download.html I'm running GNNserver 2.031 on NT. I see there's now an AOLserver 2.033 for NT What are the bug fixes mentioned in the sparse "release notes?" Is it worth the trouble of the DL and install? Let me be the first to say it: The last name change was palatable. This one is a mistake. Cass Tyson NetSmarts EPS Inc. ctyson@netsmarts.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:23:19 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Cass Tyson Subject: Please help -- Illustra has expired... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Running GNNserver 2.031 on NT. We installed new Illustra keys last week, but Illustra expired today anyway. A peek at the logs reveals there are 6 key files, and all but one expire in 2006: Jul 03 09:35:27: Illustra Elan License Manager - Copyright 1994 Elan Computer Group, Inc. Jul 03 09:35:27: ILLUSTRA ELM 3.0.5 started on rum (cea146fe). Jul 03 09:35:27: Vendor ID = 1725043; Default hostcode = 64 (0100) = IPADDR. Jul 03 09:35:27: PID = 62. Jul 03 09:35:27: Port = 6171. Jul 03 09:35:27: Log file = D:\ILLUSTRA\adm\license.log. Jul 03 09:35:27: Key path = D:\ILLUSTRA\keys. Jul 03 09:35:27: Keyaccept = 230. Jul 03 09:35:27: Resource file = . Jul 03 09:35:27: Message level = 3. Jul 03 09:35:27: Max log file size = 10 bytes. Jul 03 09:35:27: Initialization period = 0 seconds. Jul 03 09:35:27: Peer registered: "rum" cea146fe cea146fe cea146fe fe46a1ce. Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\00.lic 1 tokens expires Jul 02 23:59:59 1996. Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11000.lic 1000 tokens expires Mar 18 23:59:59 2006. Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11001.lic 1000 tokens expires Mar 18 23:59:59 2006. Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11002.lic 0 tokens expires Mar 18 23:59:59 2006. Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11003.lic 0 tokens expires Mar 18 23:59:59 2006. Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11004.lic 1000 tokens expires Mar 18 23:59:59 2006. Jul 03 09:35:27: Listening. Anyone else have this little problem? :) Though it looks like it's running, it's not. And somehow it seems to have taken GNNServer out with it. Cass Tyson NetSmarts EPS Inc. ctyson@netsmarts.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:17:29 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Please help -- Illustra has expired... Comments: cc: support@sb.aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, GNNserver only requires the 11000 and 11001 licenses which have not expired. Your problem is that the expired 00 license is conflicting. Try deleting the D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\00.lic file and rebooting. That should clear up the problem. One more thing: The 00 key was used by the IQT32 program which you will no longer be able to use. Instead, use the nsql command line program in the GNNserver bin directory. Nsql works like msql but uses the 11000 key instead of the 00 key. Cheers, -Jim At 03:23 PM 7/3/96 +0100, Cass Tyson wrote: >Running GNNserver 2.031 on NT. > >We installed new Illustra keys last week, but Illustra expired today >anyway. A peek at the logs reveals there are 6 key files, and all but one >expire in 2006: > >Jul 03 09:35:27: Illustra Elan License Manager - Copyright 1994 Elan >Computer Group, Inc. >Jul 03 09:35:27: ILLUSTRA ELM 3.0.5 started on rum (cea146fe). >Jul 03 09:35:27: Vendor ID = 1725043; Default hostcode = 64 (0100) = IPADDR. >Jul 03 09:35:27: PID = 62. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Port = 6171. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Log file = D:\ILLUSTRA\adm\license.log. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Key path = D:\ILLUSTRA\keys. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Keyaccept = 230. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Resource file = . >Jul 03 09:35:27: Message level = 3. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Max log file size = 10 bytes. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Initialization period = 0 seconds. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Peer registered: "rum" cea146fe cea146fe cea146fe fe46a1ce. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\00.lic 1 tokens expires Jul 02 >23:59:59 1996. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11000.lic 1000 tokens expires >Mar 18 23:59:59 2006. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11001.lic 1000 tokens expires >Mar 18 23:59:59 2006. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11002.lic 0 tokens expires Mar >18 23:59:59 2006. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11003.lic 0 tokens expires Mar >18 23:59:59 2006. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Loaded key D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\11004.lic 1000 tokens expires >Mar 18 23:59:59 2006. >Jul 03 09:35:27: Listening. > >Anyone else have this little problem? :) Though it looks like it's running, >it's not. And somehow it seems to have taken GNNServer out with it. > >Cass Tyson >NetSmarts EPS Inc. >ctyson@netsmarts.com > > _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 13:17:15 -0800 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Alex Khassin Subject: Re: Please help -- Illustra has expired... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_03tW16g.bO1996u.N21d000A.r07Y.17:005cd8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --=_03tW16g.bO1996u.N21d000A.r07Y.17:005cd8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Running GNNserver 2.031 on NT. > >We installed new Illustra keys last week, but Illustra expired today >anyway. A peek at the logs reveals there are 6 key files, and all but one >expire in 2006: I think a whole bunch of us are going to tear out our hair today. Here is the deal on the licensing and key expiration: Two keys exist for the Illustra database. One (older one from betas, etc) expires on July 2. This key allows the Illustra database to run AND lets you use the graphical configuration utility IQT as well as msql. The other key expires in year 2006 and is for Illustra database ONLY. This second key is not available separately, but is BUILT-IN into the Illustra installation. The ill31nt.exe file which can be downloaded from www.tools.gnn.com is a self-installing file that installs Illustra, ELM license manager AND THE YEAR 2006 KEY. What you need to do now is stop GnnServer, stop Illustra default and Illustra ELM License service, run the ill31nt.exe file to reinstall Illustra. Some notes on this: 1) Do not reinstall template1 sample database. 2) Installing just ELMD license manager does not work. You MUST reinstall Illustra! I hope this helps. I am not with AOL/GNN/NaviSoft but I have worked with GNN/AOL/NaviServer for NT for almost a year now and am probably the next best thing to it. :) --=_03tW16g.bO1996u.N21d000A.r07Y.17:005cd8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="alexsig.txt" Content-Description: The Sender's Signature ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Khassin AM Computers mailto:akhassin@am.net 1040-B N. Dutton Ave Voice: (800) 579-2018 Santa Rosa, CA 95401 (707) 579-2010 http://am.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Source for Advanced Computing Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------- am.net = The Best Hosting Service with integrated database, secure transactions, real-time credit card processing and more ---------------------------------------------------------------- --=_03tW16g.bO1996u.N21d000A.r07Y.17:005cd8-- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 22:31:16 -0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Heisler Subject: easy tcl script maintenance Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Are you tired of jumping between windows and dragging scroll bars when you edit Tcl scripts? I modified the gettcl.tcl script and came up with a script called easytcl.tcl that lets you do Tcl maintenance with Netscape Frames. Install it and use /NS/TCL instead of /NS/GetTcl. When you access /NS/TCL all the tcl scripts will be in in one frame and another frame will display a text box (a bigger one) for editing scripts. A frame at the top gives links to refresh the list of scripts, re-initialize tcl, and a link to /NS/Admin. All the functionality of /NS/GetTcl is preserved only it does everything on one page. Get it at- http://www.gnnhost.com/develop/code/index.htm. Or I can email it to you. <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< Hal M. Heisler heisler@teleport.com Portland, OR ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 14:34:19 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jack Bailey Subject: Re: What the heck is AOLPress? In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960703172909.00c9ed08@mail.gnnhost.com> from "Jeff Rawlings" at Jul 3, 96 01:29:09 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > At 06:21 PM 7/2/96 -0400, you wrote: > >I stumbled into the GNNPress web site and saw a message stating: > > > > 7/1/96 Note: Our Windows version is now available as AOLpress 1.2. > > Our Windows version is no longer in beta, though we still > > welcome any bug reports and general comments and feedback. > > > >I'm having trouble fathoming the depths of this statement, so could someone > >in the know please clarify? > > > >1) Is the current production release of GNNPress V1.2 going to be > >henceforth known as AOLPress? (Bad move, I'd say, marketing-wise) > > > >2) Is the beta done, and AOLPress the V1.2 version we're supposed to > >download? > > We are now offering the 'press software as AOLpress. The GNNpress > version will continue to be produced as well, although it is > intended primarily for members of the GNN service. > > In short, yes, I do suggest upgrading to AOLpress 1.2... That's what > I'm using now. What's the URL for it? Thanks. -- Jack Bailey zNET Internet Services ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 08:21:16 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "werner hans (3815)HW" Subject: problem server parsed html Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I installed gnnserver2.031 on Solaris 2.4. I have problems in using the server parsed html module. Could someone help me configering the parameters for this module ? Thanks, Werner ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 16:40:23 -0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Heisler Subject: tcl scripts for a sparkling planet? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Tried with reach http://tcl.naviservice.com several times today with no luck. Does anyone know if this site is down for good? <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< Hal M. Heisler heisler@teleport.com Portland, OR ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 22:13:14 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Cass Tyson Subject: Re: Please help -- Illustra has expired... In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960704001729.005fada0@199.221.53.18> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Jim Davidson wrote: > GNNserver only requires the 11000 and 11001 licenses which have not expired. > Your problem is that the expired 00 license is conflicting. Try deleting > the D:\ILLUSTRA\keys\00.lic file and rebooting. That should clear up the > problem. _Wince!_ I tried removing that file, but instead of rebooting I only restarted "Illustra default". Just restarted ELM and guess what? It works again. Thanks! I just found another clue! Now another question: I have two machines on my NT domain, but can only see the local machine from the Illustra ELMD Administrator. There's a popup list that looks like it should show both hosts, but only one machine shows up in the list. Any idea why? All other programs that administer servers in this domain have no problem seeing all hosts...and the miparams file looks like it has all the right stuff in it. > >We installed new Illustra keys last week, but Illustra expired today > >anyway. A peek at the logs reveals there are 6 key files, and all but one > >expire in 2006: ------------------ Cass Tyson E-mail Voice Mail Corp: ctyson@netsmarts.com 410-602-1392 Pers: ctyson@charm.net 410-602-1392 Acad: ctyson@ubmail.ubalt.edu 410-837-6022 Info: 410-555-1212 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 03:14:43 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Malte Sussdorff Subject: current_date Hi, I've got the following problem.(Unix/Illustra). For each entry i make a timestamp with the illustra sql command 'current_date'. Now i want to retrieve only those, that are not older then 14 days. I think i must do it with an sql select, but don't know exactly how. Any help would be appreciated. Thanx Malte ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 09:03:38 +0000 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Christian Hjorth Bargisen Organization: Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd. Subject: Re: nsperm modual on gnnserver. How do you configure it? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff Rawlings wrote: > > >Hi. > > > >I have been trying to configure the GNNServer for some time now. My first > >problem was getting cgi's to work, everytime I execute one it would ask me > >for a login and password. I fixed this by removing the nsperm modual, but > >that's not good enough. In the documentation it describes how you can > >configure the users and password protect on directories, but on the version > >2.0.3 for Solaris 2.4 dosn't have any link to the pages described in the > >documentation. > > If you remove the nsperm module in the setup server, the link to the > permissions configuration pages will disappear as well. I think you need to > go to the setup server and add the permissions module back to your virtual > server. Then, restart the server, go to your virtual server's /NS/Admin > page, and go to the Access Control link. You can then add a permission > record to set POST of your cgi URLs to "No restriction on users" and "no > restriction on groups". > The trouble is that when you enter the virtual server's /NS/Admin page, all permission seems to be set to "no restrictions on users" But this is not true, because only after you have saved the permission and restarted the server all users will have access without being prompted for name and password. /Christian H. Bargisen Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd. Denmark. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 09:49:49 -0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Heisler Subject: help with ns_writecontent Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am trying out the ns_writecontent function and can not seem to make it work. The folowing is what I have tried- 1- set file [ns_info pageroot]/conn.txt set fp [open $file w] ns_writecontent $conn $fp close $fp #returns- Error writing content 2- ns_writecontent $conn [ns_info pageroot]/conn.txt #returns- bad file identifier...... What am I doing wrong? <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< Hal M. Heisler heisler@teleport.com Portland, OR ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:49:46 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: bondo Subject: GNN Server 2.1 dies every 2-3 hours Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm having a problem with the 2.1 release under WinNT 3.51. It dies with memory access violation every few hours. This occurs most frequently when the server is beinging access a lot by other processes (FTP, Telnet, or News download). I have not been able to catch the error in progress. I only see the results of the server dying. I have reported the error to GNN through their web page. Has anyone else seen this problem. Has solved this problem. Thanks in advance, John Bond ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 08:31:19 -0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Heisler Subject: ns_conn Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Say I have a proc proc myproc {conn ignore} { # I would like to remove authdata from $conn } Is it possible to remove or modify elements of $conn? ns_info is good for getting info out of $conn. I am trying to foce a browser to prompt for authdata even though the cached authdata may be correct. My thinking is that a script could strip authdata from $conn and then redirect. <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< <' >< Hal M. Heisler heisler@teleport.com Portland, OR ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 10:10:59 +0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Andrew Dashiell Organization: Wanderlust, Inc. Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 2 Jul 1996 to 3 Jul 1996 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Automatic digest processor wrote: > > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:21:29 -0400 > From: Stew Stryker > Subject: What the heck is AOLPress? > > I stumbled into the GNNPress web site and saw a message stating: > > 7/1/96 Note: Our Windows version is now available as AOLpress 1.2. > Our Windows version is no longer in beta, though we still > welcome any bug reports and general comments and feedback. > > I'm having trouble fathoming the depths of this statement, so could someone > in the know please clarify? > > 1) Is the current production release of GNNPress V1.2 going to be > henceforth known as AOLPress? (Bad move, I'd say, marketing-wise) Jeff, I gotta agree that naming this AOLPress is a very bad move. AOL may have a limited amount of brand-name value within a certain sector of the computer-using community. But I would have to say that among professional web designers and server administrators, well, it's a real downer. The AOL brand is, warranted or not, looked down upon - considered something of a joke, actually. PLease get on your phone, call up Steve Case, and express to him the possibility that this is a big mistake. The only way this makes sense to me is if you are going to concede the higher-level web developer market to Front Page and Netscape Gold and position your product (which I think still maintains some distinct advantages over those two) strictly as a tool for AOLers to publish their personal pages. And given the very high turnover rate among AOL's "5 million" subscribers, THAT may not be so smart either... Just my $0.02, -- Andrew Dashiell Wanderlust, Inc. Interactive Media Resources 10462 Independence Circle Westminster, CO 80021 http://www.wndrlst.com afdash@wndrlst.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 09:50:20 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Chris Umali Subject: TCL Scripts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, I was wondering, what is the advantage/disadvantage of having forms inside tcl scripts? Is this a better usage of creating forms on the fly? What I want to do is, use a tcl script to query information on a database, and use that information obtain from the query to use in a form generated inside the tcl script that uses the information obtained to enter more information in another database? Have a nice day, Chris Umali Assistant WebMaster Envision Group, NetWerks chris@netwerks.com http://www.netwerks.com http://www-scf.usc.edu/~umali 310-523-2000 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 12:27:52 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: gnat Subject: Re: current_date In-Reply-To: <960705031441_149286420@emout17.mail.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Malte Sussdorff wrote: > Hi, > > I've got the following problem.(Unix/Illustra). > For each entry i make a timestamp with the illustra sql command > 'current_date'. > Now i want to retrieve only those, that are not older then 14 days. > I think i must do it with an sql select, but don't know exactly how. > Any help would be appreciated. Here is what I did for something similar: select distinct *, (current_date - created) ... This actually returns all the rows, but then as you run through your while loop you only collect the records the [ns_set get $row Minus] is less that or equal to the time you are specifying. Minus is an extra field it adds when you do a math function like that. This is the only way I have found to compare a date against a digit. Hope this helps. Dave David Whittle Internet Systems Developer Digital City (P) (703) 918-2465 (F) (703) 918-1207 (E) gnat@aol.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 12:44:24 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: >>> Illlustra License: How to install <<< Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, Several of you have indicated that your temporary license key for Illustra has expired. This would be the case if you registered for GNNserver before we started giving out a 10-year back in April of this year. To install the 10 year key, follow these steps: 1. Register as an AOLserver user at: http://www.aolserver.com/server/register/entryform.html If you registered as a GNNserver user, you can look up your existing registration at: http://www.aolserver.com/server/register/searchform.html 2. Write down the license key which is returned after registering. 3. Stop Illustra and ELMD. On Unix, run the "mistop" and "elmadmin -k" commands in the bin Illustra directory. On NT, stop the "Illustra default" and "ELMD Administrator" services using the Services Control Panel. 4. Unless you're a current Illustra customer with valid license keys received directly from Illustra, delete the existing license key files so they do not interfere with the special AOLserver keys. On Unix, they're in the adm directory of the Illustra directory. On NT, they're in the keys directory of the Illustra directory 5. Install the new license key. On Unix, run the milicense script in the bin Illustra directory. On NT, double click the "ELMD Administrator" icon in the Illustra Program Manager group. 6. Restart Illustra. On Unix, run the "startdaemon" and "mirun" scripts in the bin Illustra directory. On NT, start the "ELMD Administrator" and "Illustra default" services with the Services Control Panel. Important Notes: 1. The new key is a 10 year, host-independent key for running AOLserver and the nsql command. The license will not allow you to run the Unix msql or NT iqt32 commands as was the case with the previous 6-month key. 2. The Alpha OSF port of Illustra uses an older style key which will expire at the end of this year. At that time Alpha customers must upgrade to the latest release of Illustra which will support the 10 year key. 3. If you are still running version 2.4 of Illustra on SunOS or Solaris, you'll need to upgrade to Illustra 3.1 to use the 10 year key. If it's not convenient to upgrade at this time, you can also use the Alpha OSF key until the end of the year. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 13:55:14 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: gnat Subject: Additional Dev site. In-Reply-To: <960705031441_149286420@emout17.mail.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi all, I have built my own "Dev Corner" for the Navi/GNN/AOLServer at http://www.deadend.org/dev/index.html. It contains both C and Tcl code for many different things I have done so far in working for Digital City. I will update scripts that are there when I make a change to it, be it bug fix or feature, and will continue to add new code as I write it. Please stop by and see if there is anything that can help you out, or root through the code to see if I do something you need an example of. If you have any ideas of other things you would like to see up there, find any bugs, or just have questions please let me know. The code that is up there has only been tested on SGI Indy and Challenge hardware, unless otherwise noted, and was written for the 2.03x version of the server. I have not yet downloaded the 2.1 server so I don't know how this code will react, although I would be surprised if it didn't work. I do not make any claims to the stability of this code and can not stress enough for you to read both the notes and the code completely before using it. Please stop by, take code, and let me know about it. David Whittle Internet Systems Developer Digital City, Inc. (P) (703) 918-2465 (F) (703) 918-1207 (E) gnat@aol.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 14:17:27 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 2 Jul 1996 to 3 Jul 1996 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Jeff, I gotta agree that naming this AOLPress is a very bad move. Sorry, Andrew, but I disagree. Have you looked at what AOL is doing these days? AOL folk have worked hard to make AOL much more net-friendly than it was, and AOL has established programs such as "give back to the net" with resources such as huge mirror sites and search facilities, freely available to all net users. Yeah there were serious problems with the early experiences, but it's a long time since then, and it's not the same AOL. Give them a break. Who cares what it's called? AOLServer is still a fabulous hack. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 11:42:31 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Chris Umali Subject: Database TCL Scripts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, I've created a database for FoundersClub, in which someone can enter an order form for a brochure. The URL is the following, http://www.foundersclub.com/start3.htm And the tcl script that runs this form is as follows: ---------------------------------------------- ns_register_proc POST /NS/Db/sweepstakes sweepstakes proc sweepstakes {conn ignore} { if ![geturlpool $conn pool] { return [ns_returnbadrequest $conn "No database pool specified"] } if ![geturltable $conn table] { return [ns_returnbadrequest $conn "No database table specified"] } set formdata [ns_conn form $conn] return [insertpostswp $conn $pool $table $formdata] } proc insertpostswp {conn pool table formdata} { set db [ns_db gethandle $pool] set tinfo [ns_table info $db $table] if {$tinfo == ""} { return [ns_returnnotable $conn $table] } set size [ns_column count $tinfo] set cols "" set values "" for {set i 0} {$i < $size} {incr i} { set name [ns_column name $tinfo $i] set type [ns_column typebyindex $tinfo $i] if [catch { if {[dbformvalue $formdata $name $type value] > 0} { lappend cols [ns_column name $tinfo $i] lappend values [quotevalue $value $type] } } errMsg] { return [ns_returnbadrequest $conn $errMsg] } } if {$cols == ""} { return [ns_returnbadrequest $conn "No values specified"] } set sql "insert into [quotename $table] ([quotename [lindex $cols 0]]" foreach col [lrange $cols 1 end] { append sql ", [quotename $col]" } append sql ") values ([join $values ,])" if [catch { ns_db dml $db $sql } errMsg] { return [ns_dbreturnerror $conn $db "Could Not Perform Insert"] } set inserturl [ns_tablevalue $tinfo inserturl] if {$inserturl != ""} { if [catch { set content [ns_geturl $inserturl] } errMsg] { ns_log Error "Could not get $inserturl" } else { return [ns_return $conn 200 [ns_guesstype $inserturl] $content] } } set rowid [ns_table bestrowid $db $table] set qualifier "" if {$rowid != ""} { foreach key $rowid { set type [ns_column type $tinfo $key] if {[dbformvalue $formdata $key $type value] < 1} { set qualifier "" break } if {$qualifier != ""} { append qualifier "&" } append qualifier "RowID.[ns_urlencode $key]=[ns_urlencode $value]" } } if {$qualifier == "" && [ns_db driver $db] == "ILLUSTRA"} { set qualifier "RowID.oid=[ns_ill resultid $db]" } set notice \ "To Update the record entered, click \ " if {$qualifier != ""} { append notice "here" } # append notice "enter\ # another record or \ # search the table for other records." ns_return $conn 200 text/html \ " Founders Club Sweepstakes Verification Form



Thanks for entering our sweepstakes! If you've ordered a brochure it will arrive in 2 - 3 weeks. The weekly winner of the sweepstakes will be announced in the winner's page.

" } ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Can someone offer me some advice as to how I would be able to stop the submission of this form to the database, if a user doesn't enter a name, address, email or any other information that is revelant to the brochure order. Thanks, & Have a nice day, Chris Umali Assistant WebMaster Envision Group, NetWerks chris@netwerks.com http://www.netwerks.com http://www-scf.usc.edu/~umali 310-523-2000 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 02:07:51 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Marco Coletti Subject: Re: tcl scripts for a sparkling planet? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 16.40 03/07/96 -0100, you wrote: >Tried with reach http://tcl.naviservice.com several times today with no luck. > >Does anyone know if this site is down for good? <' >< <' >< <' >< Official Name: navi-marketing.web.aol.com IP Address: 152.163.194.120 Alias: tcl.naviservice.com PING 152.163.194.120 (152.163.194.120): 50 data bytes timed out network unreachable from 198.81.0.43: time=457 ms Official Name: inet3-gw.blue.aol.com IP Address: 198.81.0.43 -= MarCo =- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 15:40:42 +0000 Reply-To: james@plantaganet.com Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: James Smallacombe Organization: PlantagaNet, Inc. Subject: GNNserver/Solaris performance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have 10 virtual servers (very light traffic) under GNN 2.03 on a SparcStation 4 (110Mhz MicroSparc II, just like an SS5) that's not doing too much more (DNS and Radius), yet all of my www customers complain about slow load times for pages, between 200 and 300 bytes per second. I just upgraded the RAM from 32MB to 64MB (still 96MB of swap) and it hasn't helped. I loaded the same pages onto a 60Mhz PowerMac with 24MB RAM running WebStar on the same LAN and the pages load more than twice as fast. I'm running Solaris 2.5. Turning off logging and NSperm doesn't seem to help. Does anybody have a clue they could lend me? TIA ____________________________________________________________________ James Smallacombe Bucks County, PA PlantagaNet, Inc. Internet Access Providers james@plantaganet.com http://www.plantaganet.com "Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the hazard of the die." Richard III, V, v. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 18:56:30 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Ray Davis Subject: PUT files to GNNserver without GNNpress? Does anyone have a C or perl (or anything) program which can PUT a file to GNNserver (i.e. simulate a GNNpress "Save")? Failing that, can I get ahold of the protocol spec to do a PUT/Save? There are times when folks want to be able to write a file to the server, but can't run GNNpress to do it. Thanks, Ray PS: Note that I refuse to call them AOLserver/press. :-/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 22:16:26 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Aleotta@aol.com Subject: Problem with installation of Beta on Solaris 2.5 HI, I just downloaded the beta server from the web site for Solaris and I tried to do the bootstrap, but it failed... The error message is: [-Global-] Fatal: Error starting virtual servers. Killed I followed the instructions at http://www.tools.gnn.com/server/docs/2.0relnotes/ns4d.html to the letter.... but bin/nsbootstarp just doesn't work... Thanks for your help, Tony Leotta ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 03:46:14 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Malte Sussdorff Subject: Current_date (2) Hi, i discovered a nice 'feature' in the Server/Illustra. set neuer [ns_db select $db "select *,oid from W3_Catalog where geprueft_wann > (current_date - interval '14' day) ; "] while {[ns_db getrow $db $neuer]} { # ns_db dml $db2 " UPDATE W3_Catalog # set Neu = 'alt' where oid = '[ns_set get $neuer oid]' ;" incr t append test "$t-[ns_set get $neuer oid]
" } This way it works, but that's not what i wanted. If i remove the '#' then there ist the following server error: [06/Jul/1996:22:12:30 -0400][5780.926] Notice: Viewing last 2048 bytes from server log: /usr/local/naviserv/log/server.log [06/Jul/1996:22:21:00 -0400][5780.939] Notice: Ns_Ill(default:nsdb): No query active on this connection [06/Jul/1996:22:21:00 -0400][5780.939] Error: Tcl script failed: [06/Jul/1996:22:21:00 -0400][5780.939] Notice: 334 bytes of raw data to follow: Database operation "getrow" failed while executing "ns_db getrow $db $neuer" invoked from within "while {[ns_db getrow $db $neuer]} { ns_db dml $db " UPDATE W3_Catalog set Neu='alt' where oid='[ns_set get $neuer oid]' ;" incr t append tes ..." If anyone can tell me what's wrong i would appreciate it very much. Malte ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 01:33:07 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Philip Greenspun Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 3 Jul 1996 to 5 Jul 1996 Comments: cc: Sussdorff@aol.com In-Reply-To: <199607060401.AAA17376@services.web.aol.com> (message from Automatic digest processor on Sat, 6 Jul 1996 00:00:55 -0400) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 03:14:43 -0400 From: Malte Sussdorff Subject: current_date Hi, I've got the following problem.(Unix/Illustra). For each entry i make a timestamp with the illustra sql command 'current_date'. Now i want to retrieve only those, that are not older then 14 days. I think i must do it with an sql select, but don't know exactly how. select * from foobar where timestamp_column_name > (current_date - interval '14' day) See my "Illustra Tips" article in http://webtools.com/wtr/ for how I got royally hosed doing stuff like this using '1' month.... ---------- > 1) Is the current production release of GNNPress V1.2 going to be > henceforth known as AOLPress? (Bad move, I'd say, marketing-wise) Jeff, I gotta agree that naming this AOLPress is a very bad move. I was unhappy with the renaming of NaviServer to GNNserver and, as soon as I heard about the change to AOLserver, suggested that since the marketing geniuses were apparently determined to have an incrementally ugly name every six months, they should just short cut the process and name it.... BillGatesServer (see http://www.webho.com/WealthClock ). BillGatesServer and BillGatesPress You can laugh at this idea, but trust me, that's what these tools will be called in 1998. Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 09:50:20 -0700 From: Chris Umali Subject: TCL Scripts Hello, I was wondering, what is the advantage/disadvantage of having forms inside tcl scripts? Is this a better usage of creating forms on the fly? What I want to do is, use a tcl script to query information on a database, and use that information obtain from the query to use in a form generated inside the tcl script that uses the information obtained to enter more information in another database? I don't really understand your question, but all the time I 1) set a tcl variable to a form with no values 2) query the database to grab the previously entered values 3) use ns_mergeform to merge the database values into the HTML INPUTs Unfortunately, Step 3 is wicked slow (requiring as many as 1 billion instructions on an HP RISC processor or 10 seconds of crunch time) , though maybe you can beg Doug and Jim to rewrite ns_mergeform (I have). ---------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 12:27:52 -0700 From: gnat Subject: Re: current_date On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Malte Sussdorff wrote: > Hi, > > I've got the following problem.(Unix/Illustra). > For each entry i make a timestamp with the illustra sql command > 'current_date'. > Now i want to retrieve only those, that are not older then 14 days. > I think i must do it with an sql select, but don't know exactly how. > Any help would be appreciated. Here is what I did for something similar: select distinct *, (current_date - created) ... This actually returns all the rows, but then as you run through your while loop you only collect the records the [ns_set get $row Minus] is less that or equal to the time you are specifying. Minus is an extra field it adds when you do a math function like that. This is the only way I have found to compare a date against a digit. Personally, I do like my query better (see above), but if you are determined to do something like this, then select distinct *, (current_date - created) as billgatesismypersonalhero ... will return the result of the subtraction as "billgatesismypersonalhero" and let you do [ns_set get $row billgatesismypersonalhero] rather than having to accept Illustra's naming. ---------- 1. The new key is a 10 year, host-independent key for running AOLserver and the nsql command. The license will not allow you to run the Unix msql or NT iqt32 commands as was the case with the previous 6-month key. Jim, can you remind us of the difference between msql and nsql? I thought that one couldn't do DDL statements in nsql and yet the other day I tried "create table foobar;" and it worked just fine. -- Philip Greenspun ------------------------------------------------------------- MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 545 Technology Square, Rm 609, Cambridge, MA 02139, (617) 253-8574 Personal Web URL: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/philg/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 16:51:07 +0500 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Pol Syrtsov Subject: Re: GNN Server 2.1 dies every 2-3 hours I had some problem when was use wrong SIMMs on Compaq ProLinea. Pol Syrtsov, DBA Group Manager, JS PTT SvjazInform http://www.chel.su/pol/hello.html ---------- From: bondo[SMTP:bondo@mr-ed.com] Sent: 4 ÉÀÌÑ 1996 Ç. 7:49 To: Multiple recipients of list GNNDEVELOPER-L Subject: GNN Server 2.1 dies every 2-3 hours I'm having a problem with the 2.1 release under WinNT 3.51. It dies with memory access violation every few hours. This occurs most frequently when the server is beinging access a lot by other processes (FTP, Telnet, or News download). I have not been able to catch the error in progress. I only see the results of the server dying. I have reported the error to GNN through their web page. Has anyone else seen this problem. Has solved this problem. Thanks in advance, John Bond ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:44:21 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Indexing a db-generated page Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In the Ad-hoc Tcl Evaluation window, I entered: ns_textindex add http://foo.bar.com/path/to/my/page where foo.bar.com was my site name, and path/to/my/page is the URL that is registered to a script. The script gets a db handle, generates output, and releases the handle. The ns_text module and the script use the same pool, and I have configured it for five simultaneous connections. Shortly after evaluating this command, GNNServer 2.031 on NT 3.51sp4 came to a halt, refusing connections on all virtual servers. Is it possible that the source document for ns_textindex may not use a db handle to the same db? Will ns_textindex always perform a GET of the document, or, if I put the contents of the document in a text file, will ns_textindex pick it up? As a stopgap, I was thinking of registering a procedure to /docs/indexable, and then writing the temp file to [ns_pageroot]/docs/indexable/tmpID, and issuing ns_textindex /docs/indexable/tmpID, then deleting tmpID. The procedure would redirect a GET on /docs/indexable/tmpID to /docs/live/tmpID, which would dynamically generate the page. If ns_textindex does a GET, however, then this wouldn't work if ns_textindex can't handle a db-generated doc. Hoping for some help, Pete. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 16:21:02 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: hal@www.lh.com Subject: Re: >>> Illlustra License: How to install <<< Comments: cc: doug@sb.aol.com In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960705194424.0061a578@199.221.53.18> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In addition: Doug Mckee and ourselves discovered today that if other servers are running an expired license on a network to which the server is attached, the MiParams file must be edited to include the following: =========================================================================== MiParams ======== # Default System Parameter file # This file was initially created by miinstall default MI_HOST www..com MI_HOME // MI_PORT 7531 MI_LICENSE www..com NOTE: The MI_LICENSE is explicit to the host where the new keys reside. ============================================================================ On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Jim Davidson wrote: > Hello, > > Several of you have indicated that your temporary license key for Illustra > has expired. This would be the case if you registered for GNNserver before > we started giving out a 10-year back in April of this year. > > > To install the 10 year key, follow these steps: > > 1. Register as an AOLserver user at: > > http://www.aolserver.com/server/register/entryform.html > > If you registered as a GNNserver user, you can look up your existing > registration at: > > http://www.aolserver.com/server/register/searchform.html > > > 2. Write down the license key which is returned after registering. > > > 3. Stop Illustra and ELMD. On Unix, run the "mistop" and "elmadmin -k" > commands in the bin Illustra directory. On NT, stop the "Illustra default" > and "ELMD Administrator" services using the Services Control Panel. > > > 4. Unless you're a current Illustra customer with valid license keys > received directly from Illustra, delete the existing license key files so > they do not interfere with the special AOLserver keys. On Unix, they're in > the adm directory of the Illustra directory. On NT, they're in the keys > directory of the Illustra directory > > > 5. Install the new license key. On Unix, run the milicense script in the > bin Illustra directory. On NT, double click the "ELMD Administrator" icon > in the Illustra Program Manager group. > > > 6. Restart Illustra. On Unix, run the "startdaemon" and "mirun" scripts in > the bin Illustra directory. On NT, start the "ELMD Administrator" and > "Illustra default" services with the Services Control Panel. > > > > Important Notes: > > 1. The new key is a 10 year, host-independent key for running AOLserver and > the nsql command. The license will not allow you to run the Unix msql or NT > iqt32 commands as was the case with the previous 6-month key. > > 2. The Alpha OSF port of Illustra uses an older style key which will expire > at the end of this year. At that time Alpha customers must upgrade to the > latest release of Illustra which will support the 10 year key. > > 3. If you are still running version 2.4 of Illustra on SunOS or Solaris, > you'll need to upgrade to Illustra 3.1 to use the 10 year key. If it's not > convenient to upgrade at this time, you can also use the Alpha OSF key until > the end of the year. > > > > Cheers, -Jim > _______________________ > Jim Davidson > jimbo@sb.aol.com > Voice: (805) 882-2350 > Fax: (805) 899-4316 > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 08:35:35 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Cass Tyson Subject: Illustra/GNNserver on Windows NT 3.51 still a problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" OK, gang, I'm about to punt here. I'm still having trouble with GNNserver/Illustra on NT. Is anyone out there SUCCESSFULLY using this product on an NT server? I'd like to hear from you! I've installed Service Pack 4, with the only noticeable difference that speed seems to have taken a big hit -- dynamic pages take a lot longer to view, and now it takes much longer stop the server process after it locks up. In addition, on restarting it I get an error that the service is "not responding." Lo and behold, it's running anyway. Would AOLserver 2.033 make a difference? Should I, as one person suggested, reinstall the OS, the web and database servers from scratch? I REALLY like this product when it works, but I'm rapidly losing confidence in its quality. ------------------- Cass Tyson NetSmarts EPS Inc. ctyson@netsmarts.com 410-602-1392 (voice and fax) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 10:33:20 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: URL for AOLpress Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:34 PM 7/3/96 -0700, Jack Bailey wrote: >> > >What's the URL for it? Thanks. AOLpress is at: http://www.aolpress.com/download.html Cheers, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 00:59:42 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Philip Greenspun Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 5 Jul 1996 to 8 Jul 1996 Comments: cc: james@plantaganet.com In-Reply-To: <199607090402.AAA16467@services.web.aol.com> (message from Automatic digest processor on Tue, 9 Jul 1996 00:00:02 -0400) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 15:40:42 +0000 From: James Smallacombe Subject: GNNserver/Solaris performance I have 10 virtual servers (very light traffic) under GNN 2.03 on a SparcStation 4 (110Mhz MicroSparc II, just like an SS5) that's not doing too much more (DNS and Radius), yet all of my www customers complain about slow load times for pages, between 200 and 300 bytes per second. I just upgraded the RAM from 32MB to 64MB (still 96MB of swap) and it hasn't helped. I loaded the same pages onto a 60Mhz PowerMac with 24MB RAM running WebStar on the same LAN and the pages load more than twice as fast. I'm running Solaris 2.5. Turning off logging and NSperm doesn't seem to help. Does anybody have a clue they could lend me? Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think you are getting f**kt by Solaris 2.5. I had the same problem with my friend Richard's SS4 running Oracle WebServer 2.0 (see my review of this interesting product in http://webtools.com/wtr/ ). Users on PPP connections couldn't get pages at all (or maybe 1 out of 10). We were considering sending letter bombs to Oracle and/or Richard's ISP when we noticed that 1) the same users could easily reach other Web servers on the same subnet 2) the same users had the same problems getting to a Netscape FastTrack 2.0 running on another port of the same SS4 All roads led to Solaris 2.5 and a sysadmin wizard at MIT mumbled something about a known bug in 2.5 for which there is a patch. It only takes about 30 minutes to install a Netscape FastTrack server so you might want to try that out on another port or IP address... If the Netscape server is also slow, then you can experience the total quality experience of Sun support... -- Philip Greenspun ------------------------------------------------------------- MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 545 Technology Square, Rm 609, Cambridge, MA 02139, (617) 253-8574 Personal Web URL: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/philg/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:04:34 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: nsperm modual on gnnserver. How do you configure it? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:03 AM 7/4/96 +0000, Christian wrote: >The trouble is that when you enter the virtual server's /NS/Admin page, all permission seems to be set to >"no restrictions on users" But this is not true, because only after you have saved the permission and >restarted the server all users will have access without being prompted for name and password. > It might be set to "no restriction on users" AND "only these groups", with the system group selected. I believe this is the default setting for PUT and POST. This setting will require authentication from a member of the system group. My suggestion is to add a permission record for the URL you want to allow, and set it to no restrictions on users and groups. Cheers, Jeff Rawlings rawlings@gnnhost.com Webmaster, GNN Hosting Service http://www.gnnhost.com/ Moderator, gnnhost-l and gnndeveloper-l For inquiries about Web Hosting, send email to ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:04:35 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: TCL Scripts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:50 AM 7/5/96 -0700, you wrote: >Hello, > I was wondering, what is the advantage/disadvantage of having forms >inside tcl scripts? Is this a better usage of creating forms on the fly? >What I want to do is, use a tcl script to query information on a database, >and use that information obtain from the query to use in a form generated >inside the tcl script that uses the information obtained to enter more >information in another database? This is a fine way to generate forms on the fly. By generating your form within a script, you include query results and other changing infomration as choices or defaults in your form. The only disadvantage is that the form is harder to change & update. If you need the dynamic functionality, though, it's worth it. Cheers, Jeff Rawlings rawlings@gnnhost.com Webmaster, GNN Hosting Service http://www.gnnhost.com/ Moderator, gnnhost-l and gnndeveloper-l For inquiries about Web Hosting, send email to ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:04:35 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: Database TCL Scripts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:42 AM 7/5/96 -0700, you wrote: >Hello, > I've created a database for FoundersClub, in which someone can enter >an order form for a brochure. [...] >Can someone offer me some advice as to how I would be able to stop the >submission of this form to the database, if a user doesn't enter a name, >address, email or any other information that is revelant to the brochure >order. The email form module has some sample code that will do exactly what you want: if required fields are empty, it returns a notice saying so, and telling the user which fields he missed. To use it, just include a hidden field in your form that has a comma-delimited list of the fields that are required, as in: Here is the script fragment; you can add it to your script, or encapsulate it in a separate proc: set required [split [ns_set get $formdata required] ,] if {$required != ""} { set empty 0 set size [llength $required] set unfilled "" for {set i 0} {$i < $size} {incr i} { set reqfield [ns_set get $formdata [lindex $required $i]] if {$reqfield == ""} { incr empty lappend unfilled [lindex $required $i] } } if {$empty != 0} { set page "The form data you have submitted is incomplete! In order to submit your form, please make sure that you have filled out all of the required fields. When you submitted the form, the following required fields lacked appropriate information: 

[join $unfilled \n]

Please click the back button on your browser, fill in these fields, and resubmit the form.

" ns_returnnotice $conn 200 "Form Data Missing Required Fields" $page } } Cheers, Jeff Rawlings rawlings@gnnhost.com Webmaster, GNN Hosting Service http://www.gnnhost.com/ Moderator, gnnhost-l and gnndeveloper-l For inquiries about Web Hosting, send email to ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:25:29 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Thomas Dachsel Subject: AOLserver 2.033 installation: libc_r.sl missing with HP-UX 9 Comments: cc: gerkug@ger.sas.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, when trying to start AOLserver 2.033 (a.k.a. GNNserver a.k.a. Naviserver) under HP-UX 9 in bootstrap mode, I receive the error message /lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/lib/libc_r.sl libc_r.sl seems to be a HP-UX shared library for reentrant C programs, which is missing from our HP-UX installation for some reason. Any clue where to get this file. Is it part of some special subset of HP-UX which has to be ordered and/or installed separately? TIA (Thanks in advance), Thomas -- Thomas Dachsel Special Knowledge Group / National Language Support SAS Institute GmbH, P. O. Box 10 53 07, D-69043 Heidelberg, Germany ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:20:39 CDT Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Tank (SPM)" Subject: Re: Illustra/GNNserver on Windows NT 3.51 still a problem In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 09 Jul 96 02:35:35 CDT , Cass Tyson keyed in: > OK, gang, I'm about to punt here. I'm still having trouble with > GNNserver/Illustra on NT. Is anyone out there SUCCESSFULLY using this > product on an NT server? I'd like to hear from you! Hi Cass- We've been using GNNServer on NT 3.51 for over a year (Started with NaviS= erver 1.0 and have grown with the software), and have had VERY FEW proble= ms with it.... Occasionally, we will get the service stopping problem you describe, but = it is very intermittant . One important thing, if you have both GNNServer and Illustra installed, = you MUST have the dependencies for GNNServer set in the Registry.... This= is documented in the install docs, but can easily be overlooked. Feel free to mail me with any specific questions. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Tank (SPM) Sean P. McNamara Tank@PG.NET The Planet Group, Inc. Network Operations Center Voice: (312) 772-8333 Fax: (312) 772-9214 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:54:35 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Veillon Francois EXC IS CH Subject: Re: Illustra/GNNserver on Windows NT 3.51 still a problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit we are using the Gnnserver/Illustra combination on two NT 3.51 servers (service pack 3 and 4) with really no problem (besides fiddling last week with the expired illustra keys) for the last 6 months ! francois veillon Ciba-Geigy veillon@chbs.ciba.com >---------- >From: Cass Tyson[SMTP:ctyson@netsmarts.com] >Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 1996 9:35 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list GNNDEVELOPER-L >Subject: Illustra/GNNserver on Windows NT 3.51 still a problem > >OK, gang, I'm about to punt here. I'm still having trouble with >GNNserver/Illustra on NT. Is anyone out there SUCCESSFULLY using this >product on an NT server? I'd like to hear from you! > >I've installed Service Pack 4, with the only noticeable difference that >speed seems to have taken a big hit -- dynamic pages take a lot longer >to >view, and now it takes much longer stop the server process after it >locks >up. In addition, on restarting it I get an error that the service is >"not >responding." Lo and behold, it's running anyway. > >Would AOLserver 2.033 make a difference? Should I, as one person >suggested, >reinstall the OS, the web and database servers from scratch? > >I REALLY like this product when it works, but I'm rapidly losing >confidence >in its quality. > >------------------- >Cass Tyson >NetSmarts EPS Inc. >ctyson@netsmarts.com >410-602-1392 (voice and fax) > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:03:42 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Howard Jones Subject: Re: Illustra/GNNserver on Windows NT 3.51 still a problem In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Cass Tyson wrote: > OK, gang, I'm about to punt here. I'm still having trouble with > GNNserver/Illustra on NT. Is anyone out there SUCCESSFULLY using this > product on an NT server? I'd like to hear from you! We use GNN with ODBC on NT with no major problems (except see below). > I've installed Service Pack 4, with the only noticeable difference that > speed seems to have taken a big hit -- dynamic pages take a lot longer to > view, and now it takes much longer stop the server process after it locks > up. In addition, on restarting it I get an error that the service is "not > responding." Lo and behold, it's running anyway. We do get this, and the opposite too ('failed to stop' when it actually does). It seems like GNN takes a very long time to open and close all the ODBC pool connections that the Service Manager gives up on it (guessing here). > I REALLY like this product when it works, but I'm rapidly losing confidence > in its quality. I think it is worth working through the hassles just for the nice development compared to building DLL's for other servers (when using TCL, anyways). -- Howard Jones HELP! MY TYPEWRITER IS BROKEN! Voss Net Plc. - E.E.CUMMINGS Internet: hjones@vossnet.co.uk http://www.vossnet.co.uk/people/Howard/index.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:54:06 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Alex Finkel Subject: Re: >>> Illlustra License Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ---------- >Doug Mckee and ourselves discovered today that if other servers are >running an expired license on a network to which the server is attached, >the MiParams file must be edited to include the following: ---------- We recently encountered this problem as well and doing some further poking around, I found that the result of 'elmadmin -s' is different once the new keys are installed. For example, with the old keys (and older elmd), elmadmin -s would yield: License Server Host Status ----------------------- ----------------------------- host1 Active host2 Active host3 Active After the upgrade, elmadmin -s yields this: License Server Host Status ----------------------- ----------------------------- host1 Master host2 Master host3 Master The elm daemons seem to communicate status information with each other over the net, but do they compete or attempt to negotiate one elmd being the "primary" license manager? Would it be better to use one elmd for the entire network or would it be better to run the elmd on each machine using a different port? Specifying the MI_LICENSE parameter in MiParams does work as well, I'm just curious as to what is going on with elmd. - Alex -- (( / \ )) | Alex Finkel | 26 Landsdowne St. | Macintosh, Jr. / \ | Network Manager | University Park at MIT | / \ | PFN, Incorporated | Cambridge, MA 02139 | The power to crush / P F N \ | afinkel@pfn.com | http://www.pfn.com/ | the other kids. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 18:25:36 +0000 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Hans Loots Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 5 Jul 1996 to 8 Jul 1996 Comments: To: philg@mit.edu In-Reply-To: <199607090504.BAA16929@services.web.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Philip Greenspun wrote: > Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 15:40:42 +0000 > From: James Smallacombe > Subject: GNNserver/Solaris performance > > I have 10 virtual servers (very light traffic) under GNN 2.03 on > a SparcStation 4 (110Mhz MicroSparc II, just like an SS5) that's > not doing too much more (DNS and Radius), yet all of my www > customers complain about slow load times for pages, between 200 > and 300 bytes per second. I just upgraded the RAM from 32MB to > 64MB (still 96MB of swap) and it hasn't helped. [...] > Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think you are getting f**kt by > Solaris 2.5. I've put a Usenet posting of a Sun engineer about this subject on my webserver at home (http://tijger.playbeing.org/solaris-tcp-bug.html). Groetjes, -- Hans ---------- Hans Loots Hans.Loots@nob.nl ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 14:55:17 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: AOLserver 2.033 installation: libc_r.sl missing with HP-UX 9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:25 PM 7/9/96 +0100, Thomas Dachsel wrote: >Hi, >when trying to start AOLserver 2.033 (a.k.a. GNNserver a.k.a. Naviserver) >under HP-UX 9 in bootstrap mode, I receive the error message >/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/lib/libc_r.sl >libc_r.sl seems to be a HP-UX shared library for reentrant C programs, >which is missing from our HP-UX installation for some reason. >Any clue where to get this file. Is it part of some special >subset of HP-UX which has to be ordered and/or installed separately? Hello, From the note for HP/9 on the download page: HP HP/UX 9 AOLserver 2.0 requires support for threads on all platforms. On HP/UX, threads are part of the OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). DCE is bundled with HP/UX 10 but is an optional product for HP/UX 9. Therefore, to run AOLserver 2.0 on HP/UX 9 you must purchase and install DCE. Note that because HP/UX 10 is bundled with DCE, an alternative to buying DCE for HP/UX 9 is to upgrade to HP/UX 10. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:26:03 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Erik Magni 621124 Organization: KTH, Maskin Subject: Problem with AOLserver user Hi I have problem with AOLserver users and groups. I use AOLserver on NT 3.51 server with SP4. I have loded the NSperm module but I can't find the "Access Contorl Link". I have even tried to access http://my.domain:9876/NS/GetPermForm but I get the main page without the "Access Contorl Link". I know that I have to load the NSperm module to se the "Access Contorl Link". But I think I have loaded the module correct. My log looks like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice: Starting. Notice: Continuing startup. Notice: Starting servers. Notice: Starting server: nssetup Notice: Setup: Reading config data cache: D:/AOLserver/modules/nssetup//data.cac Notice: Ns_ModuleLoad(nssetup): Loading module: nssetup.dll Notice: Ns_ModuleSymbol: Loading module file: d:/aolserver/bin/nssetup.dll Notice: Ns_ModuleLoad(nssetup): Loading module: nssock.dll Notice: Ns_ModuleSymbol: Loading module file: d:/aolserver/bin/nssock.dll Notice: SockStart(nssetup, nssock): Listening on: http://XXX.XXX.XXX:9876 Notice: Waiting for servers to start. Notice: Starting server: server1 Notice: Ns_ModuleLoad(server1): Loading module: nssock.dll Notice: Ns_ModuleLoad(server1): Loading module: nsperm.dll Notice: Ns_ModuleSymbol: Loading module file: d:/aolserver/bin/nsperm.dll Notice: Ns_ModuleLoad(server1): Loading module: nslog.dll Notice: Ns_ModuleSymbol: Loading module file: d:/aolserver/bin/nslog.dll Notice: AccessLog(server1): Opened log: D:/AOLserver/servers/server1/modules/nslog/access.log Notice: SockStart(server1, nssock): Listening on: http://XXX.XXX.XXX Notice: Viewing last 2048 bytes from server log: D:/AOLserver/log/server.log ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I got a subdirectoy called NSPERM under SERVER1 with the files ADMIN.DAT, GROUPS.DAT, METHODS.DAT, PERMS .DAT and USERS.DAT. I gues I have done something wrong... Please help me. /Erik Magni ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:20:38 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "werner hans (3815)HW" Subject: Server Parsed Html Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I installed gnnserver2.031 on Solaris 2.4. I have problems in using the server parsed html module. Who could help me configering the parameters for this module? Thanks, Werner ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:39:28 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Philip Greenspun Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 8 Jul 1996 to 9 Jul 1996 In-Reply-To: <199607100404.AAA28510@services.web.aol.com> (message from Automatic digest processor on Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:02:32 -0400) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 14:55:17 -0700 From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: AOLserver 2.033 installation: libc_r.sl missing with HP-UX 9 AOLserver 2.0 requires support for threads on all platforms. On HP/UX, threads are part of the OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). DCE is bundled with HP/UX 10 but is an optional product for HP/UX 9. Therefore, to run AOLserver 2.0 on HP/UX 9 you must purchase and install DCE. Note that because HP/UX 10 is bundled with DCE, an alternative to buying DCE for HP/UX 9 is to upgrade to HP/UX 10. One caveat on HP-UX: I upgraded to 10.10 on http://photo.net/photo/ patched with the latest TCP patches and .... got Web Server crashes running both NaviServer 2.03 ("DCE Thread exception") and Netscape Fastrack 2.0 (server would start to hang after awhile, though the process wouldn't die). 10.01 (with patches) seems to run fine with 2.03. I expect that AOL Server 2.1 will eventually run properly on 10.10... Philip ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:32:45 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Philip Greenspun Subject: speaking of NT Server... In-Reply-To: <199607100404.AAA28510@services.web.aol.com> (message from Automatic digest processor on Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:02:32 -0400) This is a bit off-topic, but I've got two NT Server Intel-based machines and on neither am I able to install Netscape Navigator (any version). When I try to self-extract on one of them it says "you can't run this file from DOS". On the other, the installer gets farther but then crashes the entire machine. There seem to be a lot of NT Server users on this list so I assume you've all figured out how to make Navigator work, if only to make sure that AOL Server is functioning correctly. Philip wishing he could be a Microsoft Achiever ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:50:13 +0300 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Demetris Papallis Subject: Re: GNNserver/Solaris performance Comments: cc: philg@martigny.ai.mit.edu In-Reply-To: <199607100402.AAA28481@services.web.aol.com> from "Automatic digest processor" at Jul 10, 96 00:02:32 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I experience similar if not identical problems with GNNserver running on solaris 2.5 Did this mentioned MIT sysadmin mumble anything about which patch for solaris he is referring to?? I would be extremely interested to install this patch, "maybe" it will help!! thanx, demetris > Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 15:40:42 +0000 > From: James Smallacombe > Subject: GNNserver/Solaris performance > > I have 10 virtual servers (very light traffic) under GNN 2.03 on > a SparcStation 4 (110Mhz MicroSparc II, just like an SS5) that's > not doing too much more (DNS and Radius), yet all of my www > customers complain about slow load times for pages, between 200 > and 300 bytes per second. I just upgraded the RAM from 32MB to > 64MB (still 96MB of swap) and it hasn't helped. > > I loaded the same pages onto a 60Mhz PowerMac with 24MB RAM running > WebStar on the same LAN and the pages load more than twice as fast. > I'm running Solaris 2.5. Turning off logging and NSperm doesn't seem > to help. Does anybody have a clue they could lend me? > > Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think you are getting f**kt by > Solaris 2.5. I had the same problem with my friend Richard's SS4 > running Oracle WebServer 2.0 (see my review of this interesting product > in http://webtools.com/wtr/ ). Users on PPP connections couldn't get > pages at all (or maybe 1 out of 10). We were considering sending letter > bombs to Oracle and/or Richard's ISP when we noticed that > > 1) the same users could easily reach other Web servers on the same > subnet > 2) the same users had the same problems getting to a Netscape FastTrack > 2.0 running on another port of the same SS4 > > All roads led to Solaris 2.5 and a sysadmin wizard at MIT mumbled > something about a known bug in 2.5 for which there is a patch. It only > takes about 30 minutes to install a Netscape FastTrack server so you > might want to try that out on another port or IP address... If the > Netscape server is also slow, then you can experience the total quality > experience of Sun support... > ======= ___ === === Demetris Papallis,System Administrator ====== / / / ___ ____ _/_ ==== Cylink Ltd. / EUnet Cyprus ===== /--- / / / / /___/ / ===== 504 Augousta House, 10 Stassandrou str. ==== /___ /___/ / / /___ /_ ====== Nicosia 1660, Cyprus === ======= demetris@Cyprus.EU.net == ==== ==== ======== http://www.Cyprus.EU.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:36:18 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Ivar Ruyter Subject: Re: AOLserver 2.033 installation: libc_r.sl missing with HP-UX 9 In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960709162529.00c703b8@gerthd.ger.sas.com> from "Thomas Dachsel" at Jul 9, 96 05:25:29 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Hi, > when trying to start AOLserver 2.033 (a.k.a. GNNserver a.k.a. Naviserver) > under HP-UX 9 in bootstrap mode, I receive the error message > /lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/lib/libc_r.sl > libc_r.sl seems to be a HP-UX shared library for reentrant C programs, > which is missing from our HP-UX installation for some reason. > Any clue where to get this file. Is it part of some special > subset of HP-UX which has to be ordered and/or installed separately? > TIA (Thanks in advance), > Thomas > -- > Thomas Dachsel > Special Knowledge Group / National Language Support > SAS Institute GmbH, P. O. Box 10 53 07, D-69043 Heidelberg, Germany > Hi ! On my system running HPUX10.10 /usr/lib/libc_r.sl is a symlink to /usr/lib/libc.sl. Make such a link and see what happens :-) -- Ivar Ruyter ZFK/HZ Division Phone: 02461-61-2767 FAX: 02461-61-6435 Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH E-Mail: I.Ruyter@kfa-juelich.de 52428 Juelich Germany Finger ivarr@troll.hz.kfa-juelich.de #include 4 PGP key, Encrypted Mail Welcome Common sense unfortunately isn't ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:41:00 PDT Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Lustig, Rob ITT/FSC" Subject: Re: Illustra/GNNserver on Windows NT 3.51 still a problem >Cass Tyson >OK, gang, I'm about to punt here. I'm still having trouble with >GNNserver/Illustra on NT. Is anyone out there SUCCESSFULLY using this >product on an NT server? I'd like to hear from you! When we had NaviServer running on NT 3.5, we didn't have major downtime problems (it wouldn't automatically close and reopen the log, CGI scripts didn't execute - but they fixed that in a newer release). >I've installed Service Pack 4, with the only noticeable difference that >speed seems to have taken a big hit -- dynamic pages take a lot longer to >view, and now it takes much longer stop the server process after it locks >up. In addition, on restarting it I get an error that the service is "not >responding." Lo and behold, it's running anyway. Since I had upgraded to 3.51 and installed the service packs on my production server, I had terrible problems. EVentually, I had to shut it down. >Would AOLserver 2.033 make a difference? Should I, as one person >suggested, >reinstall the OS, the web and database servers from scratch? I installed the software on my test system running 3.51 and SP4 and it has worked fine (for now?). My time table was moved up to upgrade and move the site over to a dedicated system. I still see errors like the following: [10/Jul/1996:07:52:19 -0700][151.161] Warning: lseek(g:/NaviSoft/Server/servers/jupiter/pages/stats/stats.htm, -254, SEEK_END) failed: No error [10/Jul/1996:07:52:40 -0700][151.161] Warning: lseek(g:/NaviSoft/Server/servers/jupiter/pages/stats/stats.htm, -254, SEEK_END) failed: No error [10/Jul/1996:07:55:14 -0700][151.83] Warning: CGI '' returned non-zero exit status '1' But, the server isn't going down or locking up a socket. >I REALLY like this product when it works, but I'm rapidly losing confidence >in its quality. Early on, I thought the product was excellent for what we needed to do. Now, I am unsure if it is Microsoft or NAVI-GNN-AOL that has the problem (personally, I STILL think it is Microsoft that is to blame since I have other problems happen when I installed service packs). Don't give up: Install it from scratch, use a test system whenever you get an upgrade from MS, cross you fingers. Regards, Rob Lustig - Network Engineer in Space and Missile Country: VAFB SMTP: LUSTIG@FSC.VAFB.AF.MIL or LustigR@FSC-PLANS.VAFB.AF.MIL (805) 734-8232 ext. 5-0473 Building:7015 3rd flr. dept:AP220 Vandenberg AFB, Ca 93437-5321 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 18:25:24 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: PrimeHost announcement Comments: To: gnnhost-l@services.web.aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Many of you have heard about the launch of America Online PrimeHost, along with AOLpress and AOLserver. There will be quite a bit more fanfare coming up soon, but I wanted to give you more information right now: --------- Today I want to tell you about some more exciting changes. We have recently realigned our service and have formed PrimeHost, a wholly owned division of America Online. PrimeHost includes all the quality and service that you have come to expect from us, and more. PrimeHost will now offer even more exciting opportunities to market your website. Getting traffic to your site is the most effective way to generate business, and with America Online's PrimeHost you now have a target audience of over 6 million members. From within the America Online service, members will be able to view our PrimeHost customer list which will contain links to your website. If you are interested in listing your website in this directory, please fill out the form located at: http://www.primehost.com/members/promote/joinform.htm . Our same great publishing and server tools will now be called AOLpress and AOLserver. Both have new versions available for download at our website: http://www.primehost.com/members/index.htm - just click on the "Download AOLpress" icon. AOL has renewed its commitment to this software, and has stepped up development to add further features that we will be telling you about shortly. ----------- If you have any questions about your service, please ask at info@primehost.com or support@primehost.com. I'll do my best to answer any other questions you might have. Best Regards, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:54:00 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Michael Hirmke Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg) Subject: Server Side Includes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi *, cause I didn't get an answer to my question, which I posted a few weeks ago, I give it another try: I just installed the GNNserver software on my Windows NT 3.51 Server and everything seems to work fine except for server parsed html. I included the modules for *cgi* and *shtml* and the extension for SSI files is *.shtml*, but every time, I try to view a file with that extension, my browser (netscape 2 + 3) tells me something like "you have tried to download a file of type text/x-server-parsed-html" and I have to tell netscape, what to do with that file. If I change the extension to *.html*, I get that message for every page I try to view. If I try to view the .shtml document with GNNpress, I also get an error message (something like "Can't view ..."). If I try to view exactly the same file off a U*IX host running the NCSA httpd, everything works as expected. What did I forget ? Thanks for your help. Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke, Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81, D-90489 Nuernberg, Germany email mh@mike.franken.de / voice +49-911-557999 / fax +49-911-557664 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:39:08 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: nsql hangs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have been having a bunch of database problems, and now have identified a case in which when I issue the following command: nsql -U miadmin -P adminpw -T -c "select * from generalListings where listingID = '2047.2046';" realdb it never returns. I have been able to issue selects on the individual fields in the row with success, but when I ask for the entire row, it hangs. How do I find out what's wrong and/or how to fix/get around it? Pete. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:22:45 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Marco Coletti Subject: Re: Illustra/GNNserver on Windows NT 3.51 still a problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >I installed the software on my test system running 3.51 and SP4 and it >has worked fine (for now?). My time table was moved up to upgrade and >move the site over to a dedicated system. >I still see errors like the following: >[10/Jul/1996:07:52:19 -0700][151.161] Warning: >lseek(g:/NaviSoft/Server/servers/jupiter/pages/stats/stats.htm, -254, >SEEK_END) failed: No error >[10/Jul/1996:07:52:40 -0700][151.161] Warning: >lseek(g:/NaviSoft/Server/servers/jupiter/pages/stats/stats.htm, -254, >SEEK_END) failed: No error Same lseek "errors" for me on NT 3.51sp4 with GNNServer 2.031. What's going on? -= MarCo =- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:37:52 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: Illustra/GNNserver on Windows NT 3.51 still a problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:22 PM 7/11/96 +0200, MarCo wrote: >>I still see errors like the following: >>[10/Jul/1996:07:52:19 -0700][151.161] Warning: >>lseek(g:/NaviSoft/Server/servers/jupiter/pages/stats/stats.htm, -254, >>SEEK_END) failed: No error >>[10/Jul/1996:07:52:40 -0700][151.161] Warning: >>lseek(g:/NaviSoft/Server/servers/jupiter/pages/stats/stats.htm, -254, >>SEEK_END) failed: No error > >Same lseek "errors" for me on NT 3.51sp4 with GNNServer 2.031. > >What's going on? You're probably using trailer text, and you have the TrailerFindEnd option turned on. The server failed to find the end of your HTML page, in order to insert your trailer before the tags. When you have this option set, this happens often; it's a known problem. When this happens, the server instead adds the trailer text to the end of the document, after the tag. Most browsers, including Netscape, Explorer, and the AOL browser, will show the trailer text anyway. AOLpress will not. If the server log entries annoy you, I suggest turning TrailerFindEnd off for now; you'll get essentially the same behavior on your server, except the server log won't grow quite so fast. Cheers, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:00:01 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "InfoPond (by way of Jeff Rawlings )" Subject: Virtual server's tcl access Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, I'm new to this list. I have some question regarding GNN server setup. Please excuse me if it has been asked before. My question is: 1. When I set up a virtual server, how can I make sure the owner of the virtual server can only access their own TCl scripts. I loaded perm modula for the server, and map a /cgi-bin to the virtual server's directory. Am I missing something here? BTW, I'm running it on NT platform. Thanks inadvance. Lei ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:10:02 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Doug McKee Subject: Re: Server Side Includes In-Reply-To: <6CbHnn8$pfB@mike.franken.de> (message from Michael Hirmke on Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:54:00 +0200) >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Hirmke writes: Michael> Hi *, cause I didn't get an answer to my question, which Michael> I posted a few weeks ago, I give it another try: Michael> I just installed the GNNserver software on my Windows NT Michael> 3.51 Server and everything seems to work fine except for Michael> server parsed html. Michael> I included the modules for *cgi* and *shtml* and the Michael> extension for SSI files is *.shtml*, but every time, I Michael> try to view a file with that extension, my browser Michael> (netscape 2 + 3) tells me something like "you have tried Michael> to download a file of type text/x-server-parsed-html" and Michael> I have to tell netscape, what to do with that file. If I Michael> change the extension to *.html*, I get that message for Michael> every page I try to view. If I try to view the .shtml Michael> document with GNNpress, I also get an error message Michael> (something like "Can't view ..."). Michael> If I try to view exactly the same file off a U*IX host Michael> running the NCSA httpd, everything works as expected. Michael> What did I forget ? You didn't forget anything, it's just that server-parsed html is very hard to configure correctly the first time. Note that this is fixed in 2.1 beta. Here's what you need to do: 1. Goto the Setup Server page for configuring the nsshtml module in your virtual server. 2. By default, you should have ".shtml" under Extension. Remove it and any other settings you may have put here. 3. Add an appropriate entry under Mapping. e.g., if you want all .shtml files to be parsed, add "/*.shtml". doug -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Doug McKee America Online, Inc. Email: doug@sb.aol.com 511 Bath Street Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA (805) 882-2350 93101 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 14:49:41 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Nicolas Rosner Subject: Redirect to an HTML page..? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi there. Sorry if my question is too basic. Suppose I have a TCL script that does something (an internal action, such as updating something in a database or creating a text file). And suppose that I want it to redirect the user to an HTML page once it has finished its task. How do I do this? There is the ns_return and similar commands, but they return a specific file instead of redirecting (I'd have problems with relative URLs if I used that)... Any tips greatly appreciated. TIA. Regards, Nicolas. PS: I'm using NaviService; I think the server is NaviServer 1.x ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:32:23 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: Redirect to an HTML page..? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:49 PM 7/11/96 -0400, you wrote: >Suppose I have a TCL script that does something (an internal action, such >as updating something in a database or creating a text file). And suppose >that I want it to redirect the user to an HTML page once it has finished >its task. How do I do this? There is the ns_return and similar commands, >but they return a specific file instead of redirecting (I'd have problems >with relative URLs if I used that)... Nicholas, The ns_returnredirect command ought to do what you want. Try: proc yours {conn ignore} { .... ns_returnredirect $conn "http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.html" } Cheers, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:48:35 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: tcl scripts for a sparkling planet? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:40 PM 7/3/96 -0100, you wrote: >Tried with reach http://tcl.naviservice.com several times today with no luck. > >Does anyone know if this site is down for good? The tcl.naviservice.com server is no longer being maintained. For the most up-to-date developer information, check: http://www.aolserver.com/ http://www.primehost.com/members/develop/index.htm Cheers, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:13:14 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Krish Menon Subject: Server does not recognise urlencoded returns. In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960711193223.011b932c@mail.gnnhost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well, What I mean is, if one were to use the usermapdir function, such that someone were to have a ~ in their address, and submitted the URL to webcrawler.com, webcrawler cannot find it -- also, the AOL browser does not find the page!! I know that upgrading to 2.1 from my current 2.031 (?) version will fix the problem, but is there any other way to fix it while my bosses approve the upgrade? I know this happens because webcrawler and AOL both convert the addie to the %7E form, and the server refuses to recognize it. Krish ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:41:38 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Re: nsql hangs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" (Following up on my own post) I also wanted to say that this hang is *extremely* reproducible. It's really a problem. I'm really stuck, because, since I can't see anything that's wrong with the row, I don't know what to do to try to prevent the hang. I sent a similar message to bugs@aolserver.com. I don't mean to sound desperate, but I am. Thanks in advance, Pete. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:23:01 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Chris Umali Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 9 Jul 1996 to 10 Jul 1996 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, I've tried to implement this tcl script on one of our webservers, but it doesn't seem to work. This script could be found in: http://www.aolserver.com/server/docs/2.0/html/tcl-ch3.htm#2746 I've replaced the variables and they don't seem to work fine. the pool name is: netwerks the table name is: positions and the column name is: title ------------------ The tcl script is as follows: --------------------- ns_register_proc GET /example/getemps getemps proc getemps {conn context} { set ul "
    " set db [ns_db gethandle netwerks] set row [ns_db select $db "select title from positions order by positions;"] while {[ns_db getrow $db $row]} { append ul "
  • [ns_set get $row title]n" } append ul "
" ns_returnnotice $conn 200 "Employee list" $ul } ------------------------ Any suggestions why this doesn't seem to work? I use the GNN Server 2.03, could the reason be that I need to put /NS/Db/example/getemps instead of /example/getemps getemps. I've tried that but that doesn't seem to make any change. Help, Chris Umali Assistant WebMaster Envision Group, NetWerks chris@netwerks.com umali@scf.usc.edu http://www.netwerks.com http://www-scf.usc.edu/~umali 310-523-2000 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:17:02 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: An advanced DB question Comments: To: dvo@dgs.dgsys.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:33 AM 7/12/96 -0700, De wrote: >Jeff, > >I have an advanced db question. > >Say I use your Page Builder module. I constructed a SQL >statement and feeded it the server and got results back fine. > >my template.txt contains > >#image > >Cool so far! > >Now I wanna perform a test on the #image field rather just >merely display it (I dream here, probably). > >if #image=="" > > #another_column >else > > #image >endif > >This if statement will be very handy but it's FICTIOUS in >HTML. How do I do this with your Page Builder module? >please, if there's a way! De, I've cc:ed the developer list on my reply, because this might be useful to some of them. The buildreturnpage proc, part of the pagebuilder module, contains this while loop: while {[ns_db getrow $db $row]} { set size [ns_set size $row] set tmptemplate $template for {set i 0} {$i < $size} {incr i} { set key "#[ns_set key $row $i]" set value [regsubquote [ns_set value $row $i]] regsub -all $key $tmptemplate $value tmptemplate } append tmppage $tmptemplate unset tmptemplate } This can be rewritten as below. Please keep in mind that I haven't tested this code, although I've used each part of it elsewhere. while {[ns_db getrow $db $row]} { set tmptemplate $template #below is a great little utility written by Phil Greenspun; #I've included a link below. It sets Tcl variables column_name #equal to each column's value for this row. set_variables_after_query #your specific code. It assumes that you have columns called # "image" and "another_column" in your table. if {$image == ""} { set image $another_column } #The next bit of code does the substitution into your template; #dumpvar simply returns the value of the variable whose name #is contained in $i. foreach i [info locals] { set res_value [dumpvar $i] regsub -all "#$i" $tmptemplate $res_value tmptemplate } append tmppage $tmptemplate unset tmptemplate } Here are the supporting scripts: Page builder module: http://www.primehost.com/members/develop/code/pagebldr.txt Phil Greenspun's utilities (with set_variables_after_query): http://demo.webho.com/view-source.tcl?filename=/tcl/utilities.tcl proc dumpvar var { upvar $var v if {[set ix [array names v]] != ""} { foreach i $ix {append res $v($i)\n} } elseif [info exists v] { if [catch {set $var $v} res] {set res "No known variable [list $var]"} } else { set res "No known variable [list $var]" } return $res } Please let me know if this works for you! Cheers, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:11:11 +0800 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: cecillee Subject: Re: speaking of NT Server... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:32:45 -0400 > From: Philip Greenspun > Subject: speaking of NT Server... > > This is a bit off-topic, but I've got two NT Server Intel-based > machines > and on neither am I able to install Netscape Navigator (any > version). > When I try to self-extract on one of them it says "you can't run > this > file from DOS". On the other, the installer gets farther but > then > crashes the entire machine. > > There seem to be a lot of NT Server users on this list so I > assume > you've all figured out how to make Navigator work, if only to > make sure > that AOL Server is functioning correctly. > > Philip > wishing he could be a Microsoft Achiever Hi, Try download Netscape again in binary mode, you should able to run it without any problem. Cecil Lee Systems Engineer Aidem Consultants 2 Kovan Road #01-03 Simon Plaza Singapore 548008 http://www.aidem.com.sg/ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 14:04:40 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Re: An advanced DB question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >At 10:33 AM 7/12/96 -0700, De wrote: >>Jeff, >> >>I have an advanced db question. >> >>Say I use your Page Builder module. I constructed a SQL >>statement and feeded it the server and got results back fine. >> >>my template.txt contains >> >>#image >> >>Cool so far! >> >>Now I wanna perform a test on the #image field rather just >>merely display it (I dream here, probably). >> >>if #image=="" >> >> #another_column >>else >> >> #image >>endif Another way to do this would be to change the SQL to read something like: select 'another column' from sometable where image = '' union select image from sometable where image <> '' Then you could just use the value of the first column. Pete. ------------- Peter M. Jansson petej@clickvision.com Click Interactive Visions, LLC. (410) 488-3690 Interactive WWW development services. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:37:22 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Liankui Sun Subject: Re: AOLserver 2.033 installation: libc_r.sl missing with HP-UX 9 Comments: To: jimbo@sb.aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, Jim: I have never used GNNserver's imagemap, what is the format for the imagemap file is it the same as NCSA imagemap file? How could I used it in my page! Could you give me an example? How could I use GNNpress to edit the imagemap, When I edit a page with an image, I would like to make the image an imagemap, I always got a disabled imagemap item from the element menu, what is wrong with my browser, Could you help me out. Thanks a lot for your help! Sun ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:06:00 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Michael Hirmke Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg) Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 10 Jul 1996 to 11 Jul 1996 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- referring to your message with subject: [GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 10 Jul 1996 to 11 Jul 1996] posted on: [12 Jul 96] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [...] > Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:10:02 -0700 > From: Doug McKee > Subject: Re: Server Side Includes > [...] > You didn't forget anything, it's just that server-parsed html is very > hard to configure correctly the first time. Note that this is fixed > in 2.1 beta. Here's what you need to do: > > 1. Goto the Setup Server page for configuring the nsshtml > module in your virtual server. > > 2. By default, you should have ".shtml" under Extension. > Remove it and any other settings you may have > put here. > > 3. Add an appropriate entry under Mapping. e.g., if you want > all .shtml files to be parsed, add "/*.shtml". > > doug Thanks a lot - that was exactly what I had to do. Now everything works as expected :) Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke, Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81, D-90489 Nuernberg, Germany email mh@mike.franken.de / voice +49-911-557999 / fax +49-911-557664 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 02:32:46 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Malte Sussdorff Subject: Croning TCL Script Hi, i like to do the following: Once a day i like to generate a couple of HTML Pages. This is done by calling a TCL Procedure, wich makes heavy use of GNN Server Commands (like interacting with Database). As i do this everyday by hand, i now started to wonder, if there is a possibility under Unix to cron this event. If anyone has any idea about it, please share it with me. Thanx in advance Malte --- Malte Sussdorff Web Site Administration Bertelsmann Online ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 21:04:55 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Croning TCL Script Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:32 AM 7/14/96 -0400, Malte Sussdorff wrote: >Hi, > >i like to do the following: >Once a day i like to generate a couple of HTML Pages. >This is done by calling a TCL Procedure, wich makes heavy use of GNN Server >Commands (like interacting with Database). As i do this everyday by hand, i >now started to wonder, if there is a possibility under Unix to cron this >event. >If anyone has any idea about it, please share it with me. Hello, AOLserver 2.1 (aka GNNserver) includes the "ns_schedule_daily" Tcl command for just this purpose. In an initialization script you could have: ns_schedule_daily -thread 1 30 myproc which would run "myproc" in it's own thread at 1:30am every day. This command works the same on NT and Unix. On Unix, you could also use: ns_atsignal {ns_thread begindetached myproc} which would use the new "ns_thread" command to begin a thread running "myproc" in response to a SIGHUP, perhaps sent from cron with something like: kill -HUP `cat /usr/local/aolserver/log/nspid.9876` The latest AOLserver 2.1 beta will be posted on the www.aolserver.com WebSite sometime tomorrow afternoon. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 19:36:00 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Dan Levy Subject: Sun goes big with Tcl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The main feature on Sun Microsystems's web site is on Tcl/Tk and its new Netscape plug-in. http://www.sun.com/960710/cover/index.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:39:35 PDT Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Patrick Kelly Subject: Problems submitting queries to Illustra w/ GNN Hi: I have just installed the GNN server and am trying to use it with our Illustra system. Most things work ok. However, I'm encountering some problems. And I'm hoping someone might have some insight. Thanks in advance. (1) I have a simple tcl script based on the getemps.tcl routine in the examples directory. When I try to execute it however, e.g. using the command: http://www-cajal:1027/nsdb/getImageData/select * from ImageTest I; I receive the following error from the GNNServer: [15/Jul/1996:12:39:03 -0700][3513.3523][neuroretserver] Error: Tcl script failed: [15/Jul/1996:12:39:03 -0700][3513.3523][neuroretserver] Notice: 304 bytes of raw data to follow: server does not have access to pool: "" while executing "ns_db gethandle [ns_config [ns_dbconfigpath] "DefaultPool"]" invoked from within "set db [ns_db gethandle [ns_config [ns_dbconfigpath] "DefaultPool"]]..." (procedure "getImageData" line 6) invoked from within "getImageData nsc1 {}" I'm not sure where to start debugging this problem. (2) When I fire up the server I receive the following error/warning messages: [15/Jul/1996:12:35:20 -0700][3513.3515][neuroretserver] Notice: Ns_ModuleSymbol: Loading module file: /local/zizkov3/GNNServer/bin/nsill.so UNKNOWN: Cannot find server 'default' in MiParams My MiParams file defines default3.2 as the server since, I have two versions of the Illustra server running. Is there a way to tell the GNNServer it should be using a different server, rather than "default" or is this hard coded? (3) Also on start up I receive the following warning message: [15/Jul/1996:12:35:19 -0700][3513.3515][nssetup] Warning: Sock(nssetup, nssock): Internet hostname may not be fully qualified: cajal I'm not sure what this means and whether it is something I should worry about. If all this stuff is in the FAQ plesae just point me to the relvant key words and I'll check it out. Thank you very much. pat ----------------------------------------- Patrick Kelly Visual Computing Lab ECE Dept. UCSD M/C 0407 La Jolla, CA 92093 lab: 619.534.5935 fax: 619.534.2486 phkelly@ucsd.edu http://vision.ucsd.edu http://www-cajal.ucsd.edu ----------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:41:45 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: AOLserver 2.033 installation: libc_r.sl missing with HP-UX 9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:37 PM 7/12/96 -0700, you wrote: >I have never used GNNserver's imagemap, what is the format for the imagemap >file is it the same as >NCSA imagemap file? How could I used it in my page! Could you give me an >example? There is a detailed answer to this question of imagemap formats in our FAQ: http://www.primehost.com/faq/faq.htm Just search under AOLpress - Images and Image Maps. >How could I use GNNpress to edit the imagemap, When I edit a page with an >image, I would like to >make the image an imagemap, I always got a disabled imagemap item from the >element menu, what is >wrong with my browser, Could you help me out. Thanks a lot for your help! You first have to select the image. Just double-click on the image, then do Element->Image Map. Cheers, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:13:22 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Re: Problems submitting queries to Illustra w/ GNN Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" When you set up the db pool, you need to set the source to default3.2:dbname where dbname is whatever comes after default: in the current definition. This ought to cure this problem. Pete. ------------- Peter M. Jansson petej@clickvision.com Click Interactive Visions, LLC. (410) 488-3690 Interactive WWW development services. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:31:02 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Malte Sussdorff Subject: No query active Hi i tried to execute the following select: set select [ns_db select $db "select * From W3_Catalog;"] while {[ns_db getrow $db $select]} { an i get this from the server.log : [16/Jul/1996:10:28:28 -0400][9570.20185] Notice: Ns_Ill(default:nsdb): No query active on this connection [16/Jul/1996:10:28:28 -0400][9570.20185] Error: Tcl script failed: [16/Jul/1996:10:28:28 -0400][9570.20185] Notice: 339 bytes of raw data to follow: Database operation "getrow" failed while executing "ns_db getrow $db $select" Does anyone know what this means ? Memory lack ? The Server is GNN 2.0 on an SGI system Thanx in advance for reply, because I'm somewhat stuck here ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:45:31 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Chris Umali Subject: GNN Server Software Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, When will the version of the gnnserver w/ the built in Perl API will be available? Thanks & Have a nice day, Chris Umali Assistant WebMaster Envision Group, NetWerks chris@netwerks.com umali@scf.usc.edu http://www.netwerks.com http://www-scf.usc.edu/~umali 310-523-2000 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:05:06 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: nsql hangs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I posted this question a while back, and I'm still hoping that someone out there can help me understand what happened to the Illustra DB running under GNNServer. If this sounds familiar, or if you can otherwise postulate a way to prevent the situation from happening, please send me a message. Thanks. -- I have been having a bunch of database problems, and now have identified a case in which when I issue the following command: nsql -U miadmin -P adminpw -T -c "select * from generalListings where listingID = '2047.2046';" realdb it never returns. I have been able to issue selects on the individual fields in the row with success, but when I ask for the entire row, it hangs. How do I find out what's wrong and/or how to fix/get around it? Pete. ------------- Peter M. Jansson petej@clickvision.com Click Interactive Visions, LLC. (410) 488-3690 Interactive WWW development services. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:01:35 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Ashish Parikh Subject: can't start illustra Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, My server (Solaris 2.5) went down and I tried to re-start illustra but I get the following error message: -- ERROR:mirun: Attempt to start midaemon failed. ERROR:mirun: The following was put in the file /usr/tools/miadmin/data/midaemon .log: Copyright c 1995 Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. See files/copyright. midaemon:XZSC04:Only the Illustra System Administrator(miadmin) may execute this function midaemon: Error 0 midaemon: cannot attach to license daemon, errocode: -6 Copyright c 1995 Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. See files/copyright. midaemon:XZSC04:Only the Illustra System Administrator(miadmin) may execute this function midaemon: Error 0 midaemon: cannot attach to license daemon, errocode: -6 Copyright c 1995 Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. See files/copyright. midaemon:XZSC04:Only the Illustra System Administrator(miadmin) may execute this function midaemon: Error 0 midaemon: cannot attach to license daemon, errocode: -6 Copyright c 1995 Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. See files/copyright. midaemon:XZSC04:Only the Illustra System Administrator(miadmin) may execute this function midaemon: Error 0 midaemon: cannot attach to license daemon, errocode: -6 -- Everything was working just fine before the system went down (and I'm not sure why it went down). Any clues as to what may be going on? I did start the daemon first by typing SOMEPATH/startdaemon. Thanks, Ashish ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 03:49:15 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Malte Sussdorff Subject: Copying Illustra Entrys to another table. Hi, during the last few days a tried a lot, just to do this 'easy' task. I want to Copy all entrys (nearly 3000 with 13 Columns) from one Table to another Table, to work as backup with. Didn't work: [18/Jul/1996:02:15:05 -0400][20934.23848] Notice: Ns_Ill(default:nsdb): No query active on this connection [18/Jul/1996:02:15:05 -0400][20934.23848] Error: Tcl script failed: [18/Jul/1996:02:15:05 -0400][20934.23848] Notice: 339 bytes of raw data to follow: Database operation "getrow" failed while executing "ns_db getrow $db $select" Then i grew less demanding. I wanted to copy one Column to another. I did this via: set select [ns_db select $db "select oid from W3_Catalog;"] while {[ns_db getrow $db $select]} { ns_db dml $db "UPDATE W3_Catalog set Code=Unterkategorie where oid='[ns_set get $select oid]' ;" } Guess what happend : no query active on this connection. But the select didn't fail. If i try set select [ns_db select $db "select oid from W3_Catalog;"] while {[ns_db getrow $db $select]} { append a "[ns_set get $select oid]
" } ns_returnnotice $conn 200 $a it works (gives me all the results). Any clue what happened ?? Any hint how i can accomplish the tasks above on another way ? Thanks in advance Yours Malte --- Malte Sussdorff Web Administration Bertelsmann Online ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:11:26 -0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Magnus Larsson Subject: Win95 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Is the Win95 version out ? --Magnus-- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:18:22 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "De Q. Vo (by way of Jeff Rawlings )" Subject: Shopping any1? Request for Advice Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello I'd like to implement a shopping cart using Tcl on GNNServer. Probably, some of you have done it ... so I'd like to learn from your experience. The idea is based on the BIG assumption that a client would have a unique IP address; therefore, I would know who s/he is. (If this is a bad assumption then I'm dead in the water! :)). And, I'd need a db, call it Cart, to hold selected items, structured as follows: IP_address text QTY small integer Item text Price small integer Product_No text The client (buyer/shopper) can add (insert), drop (delete), or revise (update) items to the Cart all day. When done shopping, the client will be asked to pay by credit card through form/phone ... whatever. Questions 1. How do I capture the client's IP address when s/he signs on? 2. Will this db/IP_address implementation work? Thanks! De ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:56:29 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Philip Greenspun Subject: Perl and Illustra (what a great combo) Comments: cc: chris@netwerks.com, ashish@Savantage.Com In-Reply-To: <199607180404.AAA08542@services.web.aol.com> (message from Automatic digest processor on Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:02:22 -0400) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:45:31 -0700 From: Chris Umali Subject: GNN Server Software Hello, When will the version of the gnnserver w/ the built in Perl API will be available? That's be great. I'd like to see an EDSAC machine code API too, or maybe Common Lisp. Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:01:35 -0500 From: Ashish Parikh Subject: can't start illustra Hello, My server (Solaris 2.5) went down and I tried to re-start illustra but I get the following error message: -- ERROR:mirun: Attempt to start midaemon failed. ERROR:mirun: The following was put in the file /usr/tools/miadmin/data/midaemon .log: Copyright c 1995 Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. See files/copyright. midaemon:XZSC04:Only the Illustra System Administrator(miadmin) may execute this function midaemon: Error 0 midaemon: cannot attach to license daemon, errocode: -6 You're sure that ELMD was running? It looks to me like it wasn't. I too have suffered cruelly at the hands of ELMD. Also, you're sure that you SU'd to "miadmin" before executing "mirun"? ----- Say, folks, now that we're all here.... I hacked up a bunch of new NaviServer/Illustra-backed services. Checked out my "related links" kludge, at the bottom of, say, http://webtravel.org/samantha/samantha-XII.html Also look at the top of http://photo.net/photo/ for some new db-backed services. These are mostly simple adaptations of my old stuff at http://demo.webho.com/ -- Philip Greenspun ------------------------------------------------------------- MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 545 Technology Square, Rm 609, Cambridge, MA 02139, (617) 253-8574 Personal Web URL: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/philg/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 13:51:30 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Michael Bielicki Subject: Re: Shopping any1? Request for Advice MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Hi, youre assumpiton is wrong. If somebody comes in from a Multiuserhost than he shares his ip number evtl. with hundreds of people. The saem for all users of a very popular ISP called pipeline. --- On Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:18:22 -0400 "De Q. Vo (by way of Jeff Rawlings )" wrote: Hello I'd like to implement a shopping cart using Tcl on GNNServer. Probably, some of you have done it ... so I'd like to learn from your experience. The idea is based on the BIG assumption that a client would have a unique IP address; therefore, I would know who s/he is. (If this is a bad assumption then I'm dead in the water! :)). And, ........ -----------------End of Original Message----------------- ========= ____ ===== ======== / / / ___ ___ /_ ====== ======= /---- / / / / /___/ / ======= ====== /____ /___/ / / /___ /_ ======== ===== ========= Michael Bielicki Tel: +357 (0)2 759 114 Technical Operations Fax: +357 (0)2 759 852 Cylink Ltd. / EUnet Cyprus http://www.Cyprus.EU.net #202, 54 Digheni Akritas Ave. e-mail: michael@Cyprus.EU.net Nicosia 1660, Cyprus ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:29:16 CDT Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Tank (SPM)" Subject: Re: Shopping any1? Request for Advice In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960718131822.01086e74@mail.gnnhost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 18 Jul 96 08:18:22 CDT , De Q. Vo (by way of Jeff Rawlings ) keyed in: > Hello > > I'd like to implement a shopping cart using Tcl on GNNServer. Probably, > some of you have done it ... so I'd like to learn from your experience. > > The idea is based on the BIG assumption that a client would have a uniq= ue > IP address; therefore, I would know who s/he is. (If this is a bad > assumption then I'm dead in the water! :)). Hi There- If the user is dialing into a terminal server, and obtaining an IP addres= s dynamically, the address will not be consistent between logins, therefo= re this is NOT an accurate method of identification. Would it be feasible to have the user register ONCE with the system to = obtain a "Shopping Club Number" which he could use to uniquely identify = himself to the system? Other possiblities would be to mask out the host segment of the IP addres= s as users from a single ISP will MOST LIKELY always show up within a giv= en network segment, however this is not a guarantee, and does not allow = for the possibility of the user having multiple providers. Hope this is useful. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Tank (SPM) Sean P. McNamara Tank@PG.NET The Planet Group, Inc. Network Operations Center Voice: (312) 772-8333 Fax: (312) 772-9214 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:28:05 -0800 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Robert A. Dennis" Subject: Java applet code in ns_return Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Morning, We have been unable to get a simple tcl script that returns html that contains the tag to function propoerly. The tcl script works, actually, and returns a page, but the applet doesn't come down. The error that Netscape reports is a java.lang.Format_Error. We want the user to be able to specify some of the parameters that go with the applet code, and so we present them a form. When the form is submitted a page is returned but the applet just won't come down. This is not a problem with the applet code. It works just fine when the parameters are specified statically. Has anyone had any luck or experience with any thing like this? Any ideas are appreciated. If there is any interest I will summarize and report to the group. Cheers Buddy ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:48:09 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Documentation and support contracts Comments: To: gnnhost-l@services.web.aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just wanted to let you all know that printed documentation is now available for AOLpress and AOLserver. In addition, we're now offering support contracts (phone and email support) for AOLserver. Downloads of the software will continue to be free. Here is the pricing for documentation and support: AOLpress User Guide: $19.95 + S&H AOLserver Documentation Kit (7 user manuals including Illustra documentation) PrimeHost customers: $250/kit (additional kits; one is included) non-PrimeHost customers: $389/kit AOLserver technical support contract (for non PrimeHost customers - includes AOLserver documentation kit): $1,000/year Cheers, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:03:23 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Educational & Non-Profit Discounts Comments: To: gnnhost-l@services.web.aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Another brief announcement: PrimeHost now has an educational & non-profit discount program. If you can verify your non-profit status, we will waive all startup fees for the service; monthly fees are unchanged. If you have any questions, please let us know at info@primehost.com. Cheers, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:31:05 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Dominique Mueller Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 16 Jul 1996 to 17 Jul 1996 Hi all, I don't manage to insert form-data into my database using the mailform.tcl - script as described in the tutorial. I tried it at http://www.cymagic.com/test/mailform.htm. The E-mail is sent, but then following the error occurs: The HTTP request was in an invalid format or contained invalid data. Reason: No values specified For further assistance, contact the server administrator. There is no data inserted into my database. A table with the name "test" exists in the pool "sql" with the field "test". The test.row template contains: cyma96@aol.com keiner Nur ein Test #test Can anybody help me please? Thanks, Dominique webmaster@cymagic.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:54:31 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 16 Jul 1996 to 17 Jul 1996 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Hi all, > >I don't manage to insert form-data into my database using the mailform.tcl - >script as described in the tutorial. I tried it at >http://www.cymagic.com/test/mailform.htm. The E-mail is sent, but then >following the error occurs: > >The HTTP request was in an invalid format or contained invalid data. Reason: >No values specified >For further assistance, contact the server administrator. > >There is no data inserted into my database. A table with the name "test" >exists in the pool "sql" with the field "test". [...] Try renaming your field "ColValue.test" instead of just "test". The insertrow proc expects the fields to be in the ColValue.column_name format the the dynamically-generated input and update forms use. I'll make this clearer in the readme and comments... Cheers, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 17:57:47 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Win95 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:11 AM 7/18/96 -0100, Magnus Larsson wrote: >Is the Win95 version out ? Hello, The long awaited Win95 port will be posted with the next AOLserver 2.1 beta release scheduled for next Friday. It's really just the WinNT port with a little graphical front end for start and stop. There are two major drawbacks to the Win95 port: 1. Illustra doesn't run on Win95 (although you can access a remote Illustra server or use a 32bit ODBC driver such as MS Access). 2. Sockets on Win95 cannot be turned into ordinary file handles or stdio FILE streams. This causes the ns_sock* Tcl commands and scripts which depend on them (such as ns_sendmail) to fail. Although we are releasing a Win95 port with the next beta, we have not committed to supporting this platform. If the port proves useful and reliable throughout the beta program we will consider it for the final release. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 19:01:26 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Patch and workaround for AOLserver beta 2.1b6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, This message describes two problems with the AOLserver 2.1 beta 6 release: 1. Patch for socket driver for all platforms. 2. Workaround for bug in Intel and Sparc Solaris. Patch: We have posted a patch for the socket and export ssl drivers for AOLserver 2.1 beta 6. The patch corrects a problem transferring large files and can be downloaded from the same location as 2.1 beta: http://www.aolserver.com/server/2.1beta.html Simply download the apropriate driver and replace the cooresponding file in the bin subdirectory of the AOLserver directory. Solaris Workaround: A bug in Intel and Sparc Solaris 2.4 (and possibly 2.5) can cause AOLserver 2.1 to hang. When this happens you will find a "protocol error" message in the server log. To workaround this problem, set the "ListenThread" parameter of the socket and ssl drivers to "y" in each virtual server. To do so: 1. Access the setup server. 2. Select a virtual server. 3. Select the nssock (or nsssl) module 4. Select "Expert" mode. 5. Scoll to the bottom and in the "Addition Parameters" section enter "ListenThread" for the key and "y" for the value. 6. Press Update. 7. Repeat for all socket and ssl drivers in all virtual servers. Note: This workaround is only required for Intel and Sparc Solaris. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 01:14:57 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Another Patch for AOLserver 2.1b6 on Solaris Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, We have discovered another Solaris bug requiring a patch. The problem keeps the AOLserver from binding to more than one privileged port. To correct the problem, download the corresponding compressed nsd binary: Intel: http://www.aolserver.com/download/server/intel-solaris/nsd.Z Sparc: http://www.aolserver.com/download/server/solaris/nsd.Z and uncompress it in your bin aolserver directory, e.g.: % cd /usr/local/aolserver/bin % mv nsd nsd.old % uncompress nsd.Z % chmod +x nsd Here are the details of the problem: When AOLserver 2.1 is started as root, it forks a child process. The child immediately performs a setuid() to the non-root user configured in the nsd.ini file and begins multithreaded startup. This new multithreaded startup helps speed startup when the server is configured with multiple virtual servers. In such a post-setuid(), non-privileged state, the server would normally not be able to bind to any privileged ports (e.g., port 80) but the AOLserver uses a special trick to request privileged ports from the parent process which is still running as root. The parent process creates the socket, bind()'s to the privileged port, and sends it back to the child using sendmsg(). The problem on Solaris was that some unknown bug in the Solaris socket code was preventing more than one socket from being sent to the child. Actually, the socket was sent back fine and the child successfully issued a listen() call but in fact Solaris did not begin listening for connections. Instead, the socket was left in a strange bound but not listening state which you could see with the netstat -an command, e.g.: 199.221.53.97.80 *.* 0 0 0 0 LISTEN 199.221.53.98.80 *.* 0 0 0 0 BOUND 199.221.53.99.80 *.* 0 0 0 0 BOUND The solution to the problem was to have the parent process perform the listen() in addition to the bind() before sending the socket back to the child. As bind() is the privileged operation, issuing the listen() shouldn't be necessary. In fact, it wasn't necessary on any other platform. This was just another example of the buggy socket code in Solaris. Cheers, -Jim _________________________________________________ Jim Davidson | jimbo@sb.aol.com AOLserver Project Manager | America Online Inc. | 511 Bath Street | Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 | Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:17:59 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Patch for GNNserver 2.04 on SunOS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, Several of you have reported problems executing CGI's which return more than 4k of data using GNNserver 2.04 on SunOS. We have tracked down the problem and a patched nsd binary can be downloaded from the GNNserver download page: http://www.tools.gnn.com/server/download.html This problem only affects GNNserver 2.04 and only the SunOS port - the Linux and FreeBSD ports are unaffected. Note: Unfortunately, the presence of this patch does not indicate a renewed commitment to the SunOS, Linux, and FreeBSD ports. There are still no plans to port AOLserver 2.1 to these platforms. In fact, this bug was found in the pthreads library which has caused us so much trouble in the first place. All SunOS, Linux, and FreeBSD customers are strongly encouraged to install Intel or Sparc Solaris on their hardware where AOLserver 2.1 is fully supported. Cheers, -Jim _________________________________________________ Jim Davidson | jimbo@sb.aol.com AOLserver Project Manager | America Online Inc. | 511 Bath Street | Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 | Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 19:36:29 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Re: Copying Illustra Entrys to another table. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >during the last few days a tried a lot, just to do this 'easy' task. >I want to Copy all entrys (nearly 3000 with 13 Columns) from one Table to >another Table, to work as backup with. The easiest way I know of (assuming that Backup_Catalog looks just like W3_Catalog) would be: insert into Backup_Catalog select * from W3_Catalog; Although this doesn't address your "no query active" message, it would get the job done. Similarly, to copy columns, you could do update W3_Catalog set Code=Unterkategorie; which would do it for all rows in W3_Catalog. Pete. ------------- Peter M. Jansson petej@clickvision.com Click Interactive Visions, LLC. (410) 488-3690 Interactive WWW development services. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:57:05 -0000 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Alex Khassin Subject: Re: Shopping any1? Request for Advice In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960718131822.01086e74@mail.gnnhost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_18tW07g.bO1996u.N16d000A.r07Y.57:004957" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --=_18tW07g.bO1996u.N16d000A.r07Y.57:004957 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >The idea is based on the BIG assumption that a client would have a unique >IP address; therefore, I would know who s/he is. (If this is a bad >assumption then I'm dead in the water! :)). And, I'd need a db, call > >Questions > 1. How do I capture the client's IP address when s/he signs on? > 2. Will this db/IP_address implementation work? > Here is a way in which a shopping cart system can be implemented: Although you can assume with reasonable degree of certainty that within 30 minutes or so an IP number is more or less the same person, it is not guaranteed. Here is an example. Every time you dial into an ISP you are usually assigned a different dynamic IP address. What that means is that if a visitor's connection to his ISP got interrupted while he was viewing your site, when he redials he might have a different IP address. Cookies are a good way to maintain state but they are not 100% reliable since a lot of users do not have browsers that support them. The only sure way to track a user through a site (and therefore his selections in your catalog) is to use URLs that incorporate a unique ID for each visitor. So, when someone enters a catalog they are assigned a unique ID. After that pages that they view are generated by the scripts to have URLs include the id, i.e. a link to the next page would be: http://www.catalog.com/NS/ShopCart/page3.htm?id=147132478 or something to that effect. Then your cart table would have a row with the id and all the items purchased, etc. We would be more than happy to develop such a shopping cart system for you. Depending on complexity you are looking at $3000-$5000. If you find somebody else using GNNServer who would want this system you can split this cost! --=_18tW07g.bO1996u.N16d000A.r07Y.57:004957 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="alexsig.txt" Content-Description: The Sender's Signature ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Khassin AM Computers mailto:akhassin@am.net 1040-B N. Dutton Ave Voice: (800) 579-2018 Santa Rosa, CA 95401 (707) 579-2010 http://am.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Source for Advanced Computing Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------- am.net = The Best Hosting Service with integrated database, secure transactions, real-time credit card processing and more ---------------------------------------------------------------- --=_18tW07g.bO1996u.N16d000A.r07Y.57:004957-- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:54:10 -0400 Reply-To: jyarden@tool.net Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jonathan Yarden Subject: Stupid Illustra tricks... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Maybe I'm a little dense, but I have yet to find out how Illustra can be coerced into doing the following: 1. Extending an existing column of a table. I just need to add 2 characters to a column, that's it. A no-brainer, right? 2. Deleting a column from a table. No, not rename, remove. Simple huh? I've spend over an hour on the phone with the Illustra tech's, and the seem to have difficulty understanding the nature of my questions. I'm sure I am not the only person on the planet who has asked these questions, so somebody out there has the answers. Then again, it's entirely possible that I'm just too stupid to use databases... BTW, the full Illustra product is about $70,000... "Gee Wally, I sure wish I had $70,000 to blow on a database server with lousy documentation and non-standard SQL!" Jon Yarden, Systems Geek, Internet Tool & Die ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 14:01:25 +0100 Reply-To: dvo@dgs.dgsys.com Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "De Q. Vo" Subject: Re: Shopping any1? Request for Advice Comments: To: wells@alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu, phig@martigny.ai.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gentlemen: Thanks much for your insights on how to do a shopping cart. I knew I asked the right group ... so I guess I'll be dead NOT in the water after all :)) Have a nice weekend! De ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:13:05 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Dominique Mueller Subject: add_timestamp_to_form function? Hi all again, thank you very much Jeff for your fast help on my database problem. Now a new problem: There is a useful function called add_date_to_form $formdata $datecolumn in the file forms.tcl. I just tried and failed to create a new function called add_timestamp_to_form which should add a complete timestamp to a table with a field of the type "timestamp". Did anybody allready create such a function and/or can anybody help me with the sourcecode? Thank you, Dominique ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 15:47:45 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Joseph Heitzman Subject: AOLserver and WinNT 4.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am trying to install AOLserver into Win NT 4.0. When I do, I get an error about Win95 not being supported. Has anyone come up with a work around for this? I would prefer to use AOLserver, but if I can't under this version of NT, I'm stuck with IIS. Thanks, Joseph Heitzman ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 18:34:00 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Marco Coletti Subject: Describe Page and Metadata? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I already posted this question, but got no reply. So I'm trying again. I'm running GNNServer 2.031 on Windows NT 3.51 sp4. When I select Tools/Administer_Page/Describe, in NaviPress 1.1, I get: This server does not support "describing" pages. (NaviPress really does a GET of /NS/GetMetaTables/...) I'm unable to find any reference to "describing" or "metadata" in the server setup HTML pages. nor I'm able to find it in GNNServer 2.0 online manual. I remember however there was some speaking about "metadata" in NaviServer 1.0 manual. Has this feature been taken out from GNNServer? I'm talking about some method to associate keywords with pages. Ciao. -= MarCo =- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 10:41:33 +0300 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Michael Bielicki Subject: Noo Virtual Servers with Beta 6 ??? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi Folks, I ran into a serious problem with Beta 6 on SPARC Solaris 2.5. I have all patches installed, the new TCP/IP one's too. I'm trying to run 6 Virtual Servers, but beta 6 answers only on one address. In the log file everything seems to be correct. WIth 2.033, same machine, same setup no problems. Any ideas ??? Michael - -- ========= ____ ===== ======== / / / ___ ___ /_ ====== ======= /---- / / / / /___/ / ======= ====== /____ /___/ / / /___ /_ ======== ===== ========= Michael Bielicki Tel: +357 (0)2 361 377 Technical Operations Fax: +357 (0)2 367 266 Cylink Ltd. / EUnet Cyprus http://www.Cyprus.EU.net 504,Augusta House,10,Stasandrou str. e-mail: michael@Cyprus.EU.net Nicosia 1660, Cyprus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAgUBMfCNp8neSpf+YTVhAQEYxQQAifYD4NGqzW/Eq4DXCjJvAsranX9w5bT6 nIfGYc64VB1A9ngtxMWeVaPeFLBFY4IyoeiVajP2elyMHFe7aNEZKIDi3MPJbWyb 19s/SuaV5pgovLMmOQWGL36/8eXZSW7ET29VGzstmU/4VIGyPhygMwcy6HKthtXL oT6170p7sgI= =9k4l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 01:05:55 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Philip Greenspun Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 17 Jul 1996 to 18 Jul 1996 Comments: To: dvo@dgs.dgsys.com In-Reply-To: <199607190404.AAA22815@services.web.aol.com> (message from Automatic digest processor on Fri, 19 Jul 1996 00:02:49 -0400) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:18:22 -0400 From: "De Q. Vo (by way of Jeff Rawlings )" Subject: Shopping any1? Request for Advice Hello I'd like to implement a shopping cart using Tcl on GNNServer. Probably, some of you have done it ... so I'd like to learn from your experience. The idea is based on the BIG assumption that a client would have a unique IP address; therefore, I would know who s/he is. (If this is a bad assumption then I'm dead in the water! :)) Rest in peace. The client (buyer/shopper) can add (insert), drop (delete), or revise (update) items to the Cart all day. When done shopping, the client will be asked to pay by credit card through form/phone ... whatever. Shopping carts are very 1994. When I do a system like this today, the first time the user asks to order something, I ask for all the information (address, credit card, whatever). I write back a magic cookie header with some kind of unique key (maybe his email address, maybe a number from a database-based sequence generator). Next time he says he wants to order something, my Tcl code sees the cookie header and says "do you want to add to your previous order?" Magic cookies work with all browsers from Netscape 1.0 onward I think. The main class of lusers without cookie capability are inside AOL. But of course, if they are satisfied AOL Achievers then they probably won't object to typing the same information over and over again. Philip ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 18:31:24 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Howard Jones Subject: NT/AOL2.1b6 upgrade problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have just downloaded AOLserver 2.1b6 for Intel NT to play with and have found a few wierdnesses compared to my previous version (GNN 2.03): 1) It's nice that I can restart the server remotely now, but it crashes roughly 1 in 4 times when I try with a GPF (or whatever NT calls them). 2) I get the following error message: The HTTP request was in an invalid format or contained invalid data. Reason: Missing Tcl library For further assistance, contact the server administrator. when I try to Reinitialize Tcl. Tcl is running OK (apart from a few bits where in the process of documenting functions, they've gained an 'ns_', but that's my fault for using them. The DLL's and so on appear to be in place - what's up here? Thanks for any advice, Howard. P.S. As I understand it, I can now preload data from a database table into a TCL array to be used as a lookup by *all* TCL threads. Is that the case? What are the problems (apart from needing to reload the lookup when the data changes)? -- Howard Jones HELP! MY TYPEWRITER IS BROKEN! Voss Net Plc. - E.E.CUMMINGS Internet: hjones@vossnet.co.uk http://www.vossnet.co.uk/people/Howard/index.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:07:14 +0800 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Cecil Lee Subject: Customise Return Page for Table MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I have been working on this problem for days, could anyone tell me how to customise the return page after entering data into the NaviServer tables. This is what I have done, - created a table called test_table with two columns, field1 and field2. - went to /NS/GetEntryForm/ns_tables and entered the table_name as test_table, table_inserturl as "/test.htm" The ERROR message that I get is, X23C00:integrity constraint violation: Constraint Name _UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT_ON_INSERT_To_public_ns_tables_ Any ideas what this, I couldn't feature out how to solve this. ------------------------------------ Cecil Administrator Aidem Consultants http://www.aidem.com.sg ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:45:09 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Doug McKee Subject: Re: Customise Return Page for Table In-Reply-To: <31EF09F2.477@singnet.com.sg> (message from Cecil Lee on Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:07:14 +0800) > This is what I have done, > > - created a table called test_table with two columns, field1 and > field2. > - went to /NS/GetEntryForm/ns_tables and entered the table_name > as test_table, table_inserturl as "/test.htm" > > X23C00:integrity constraint violation: Constraint Name > _UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT_ON_INSERT_To_public_ns_tables_ You've already got a record in ns_tables for your table; you just need to go to /NS/GetSearchForm/ns_tables, find the existing record, and edit that. doug -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Doug McKee America Online, Inc. Email: doug@sb.aol.com 511 Bath Street Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA (805) 882-2350 93101 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:50:20 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: NT/AOL2.1b6 upgrade problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 06:31 PM 7/22/96 +0100, Howard Jones wrote: >I have just downloaded AOLserver 2.1b6 for Intel NT to play with and have >found a few wierdnesses compared to my previous version (GNN 2.03): > >1) It's nice that I can restart the server remotely now, but it crashes >roughly 1 in 4 times when I try with a GPF (or whatever NT calls them). Yes - known bug we should wack out by the next release. >2) I get the following error message: >The HTTP request was in an invalid format or contained invalid data. Reason: > > Missing Tcl library > >For further assistance, contact the server administrator. > >when I try to Reinitialize Tcl. Tcl is running OK (apart from a few bits >where in the process of documenting functions, they've gained an 'ns_', >but that's my fault for using them. The DLL's and so on appear to be in >place - what's up here? Tcl now has a concept of a "shared" vs. "private" library. The /NS/TclInit URL now takes the library as the first parameter and unfortunately the top level Tcl admin page link doesn't pass this. Try following one of the re-init links on the shared and/or private view/edit Tcl admin pages. >As I understand it, I can now preload data from a database table into a >TCL array to be used as a lookup by *all* TCL threads. Is that the case? >What are the problems (apart from needing to reload the lookup when the data >changes)? Yes - this is a major new feature of the Tcl code in 2.1 which went through quite a revision internally since 2.0. Basically, all global variables, procedures, and open files are shared among the Tcl interpreters for a virtual server (there is still no sharing between virtual servers). This means your code can simply fill up a global variable at startup, say: set db [ns_db gethandle] set row [ns_db select $db "select a, b from mytable"] while {[ns_db getrow $db $row]} { set a [ns_set value $row 0] set b [ns_set value $row 1] set mydata($a) $b } and then access it anytime later with: proc myproc {conn context} { global mydata puts $mydata(foo) } One note: To acomplish the sharing, Tcl must make a copy private to the interp on *each* access of the global variable. This means that this code: global foo set tmp $foo ... do many things with $tmp ... is typically more efficient than: global foo ... do many things with $foo ... because each access of $tmp would not require a data copy from the global area whereas each time you accessed $foo Tcl would have to make a copy (don't worry - the copies are garbaged collected automatically at the end of the transaction and simultaneous multithreaded access is safe due to internal locking of the Tcl code). Another side affect is that $tmp won't change throughout the transaction whereas $foo could change through an action in another interp which may or may not be what you want. The distinction is subtle but important. If you take advantage of sharing data between interps, consider using some of the new thread synchronization routines as well (i.e., ns_mutex, ns_event, etc). Cheers, -Jim _________________________________________________ Jim Davidson | jimbo@sb.aol.com AOLserver Project Manager | America Online Inc. | 511 Bath Street | Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 | Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:52:06 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Customise Return Page for Table Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:07 PM 7/19/96 +0800, Cecil Lee wrote: >Hi, > >I have been working on this problem for days, could anyone tell >me how to customise the return page after entering data into the >NaviServer tables. > > >This is what I have done, > >- created a table called test_table with two columns, field1 and >field2. >- went to /NS/GetEntryForm/ns_tables and entered the table_name >as test_table, table_inserturl as "/test.htm" > > >The ERROR message that I get is, > >X23C00:integrity constraint violation: Constraint Name >_UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT_ON_INSERT_To_public_ns_tables_ > > >Any ideas what this, I couldn't feature out how to solve this. Try searching for test_table on the ns_tables search form and then following the update link. Using entry attempts to add a second row for the test_table table which is in fact an integrity violation (the ns_tables table can only have one record per table). Cheers, -Jim _________________________________________________ Jim Davidson | jimbo@sb.aol.com AOLserver Project Manager | America Online Inc. | 511 Bath Street | Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 | Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:53:30 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Noo Virtual Servers with Beta 6 ??? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:41 AM 7/20/96 +0300, Michael Bielicki wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hi Folks, >I ran into a serious problem with Beta 6 on SPARC Solaris 2.5. >I have all patches installed, the new TCP/IP one's too. >I'm trying to run 6 Virtual Servers, but beta 6 answers only on one address. >In the log file everything seems to be correct. > >WIth 2.033, same machine, same setup no problems. Hello, This bug was fixed and a patch posted over the weekend. See: http://www.aolserver.com/server/2.1beta.html for details (you should have also received an announcement on this list). Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:55:54 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Doug McKee Subject: Re: Describe Page and Metadata? In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960719163400.006abf74@mbox.vol.it> (message from Marco Coletti on Fri, 19 Jul 1996 18:34:00 +0200) >>>>> "Marco" == Marco Coletti writes: Marco> I already posted this question, but got no reply. So I'm Marco> trying again. Marco> I'm running GNNServer 2.031 on Windows NT 3.51 sp4. When I Marco> select Tools/Administer_Page/Describe, in NaviPress 1.1, I Marco> get: Marco> This server does not support "describing" pages. Marco> (NaviPress really does a GET of /NS/GetMetaTables/...) Marco> I'm unable to find any reference to "describing" or Marco> "metadata" in the server setup HTML pages. nor I'm able to Marco> find it in GNNServer 2.0 online manual. Marco> I remember however there was some speaking about "metadata" Marco> in NaviServer 1.0 manual. Marco> Has this feature been taken out from GNNServer? Marco> I'm talking about some method to associate keywords with Marco> pages. You've guessed correctly; this functionality existed in 1.0 but was removed between 1.0 and 2.0. It let you associated relational data with pages and then do combination keyword/relational searching. Unfortuantely, no one used it, and it wasn't particularly flexible. The good news is that you have all the tools at your disposal in the Tcl api to write your own relational/full text system. If you just want to associate non-displayed keywords with your pages, I'm not sure how to do this, since all tags (including comments) are removed before full-text indexing. Anyone know how to do a "keyword1 keyword2 keyword3" ? doug -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Doug McKee America Online, Inc. Email: doug@sb.aol.com 511 Bath Street Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA (805) 882-2350 93101 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:03:21 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: AOLserver and WinNT 4.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:47 PM 7/22/96 -0400, Joseph Heitzman wrote: >I am trying to install AOLserver into Win NT 4.0. When I do, I get >an error about Win95 not being supported. Has anyone come up with >a work around for this? I would prefer to use AOLserver, but if I >can't under this version of NT, I'm stuck with IIS. The message is a warning because the InstallShield program used for setup believes NT 4.0 is Win95. You can safely continue the installation. AOLserver 2.1 will most certainly be supported on NT 4.0 when it's released. That's NT Server by the way - MS intends to tweak Workstation so it can't be used as a Web server. However, we have not yet tested AOLserver on NT 4.0 Beta so I can't guarantee it will work as reliably as it does on 3.51. I don't expect any problems (as long as MS has done their job to make 4.0 compatible with 3.51) but I can't say for sure. Cheers, -Jim _________________________________________________ Jim Davidson | jimbo@sb.aol.com AOLserver Project Manager | America Online Inc. | 511 Bath Street | Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 | Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:05:00 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Describe Page and Metadata? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 06:34 PM 7/19/96 +0200, Marco Coletti wrote: >I already posted this question, but got no reply. So I'm trying again. > >I'm running GNNServer 2.031 on Windows NT 3.51 sp4. >When I select Tools/Administer_Page/Describe, in NaviPress 1.1, I get: > > This server does not support "describing" pages. > >(NaviPress really does a GET of /NS/GetMetaTables/...) > >I'm unable to find any reference to "describing" or "metadata" in the server >setup HTML pages. nor I'm able to find it in GNNServer 2.0 online manual. > >I remember however there was some speaking about "metadata" in NaviServer >1.0 manual. > >Has this feature been taken out from GNNServer? > >I'm talking about some method to associate keywords with pages. Yes - this feature was removed because very few people used it in NaviServer 1.0. Cheers, -Jim _________________________________________________ Jim Davidson | jimbo@sb.aol.com AOLserver Project Manager | America Online Inc. | 511 Bath Street | Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 | Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 19:50:38 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Scott Munro Subject: Shopping any1? Request for Advice Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" De Q. Vo wrote: > Hello > I'd like to implement a shopping cart using Tcl on GNNServer. Probably, > some of you have done it ... so I'd like to learn from your experience. > The idea is based on the BIG assumption that a client would have a unique > IP address; therefore, [remainder deleted] De, I wrote a similar application about a year ago without the use of an API (see http://www.balducci.com/). Here's the "Reader's Digest Condensed Version" of how it works in case it gives you any good ideas. I'm sure a similar technique could be implemented (more easily!) with the GNNServer. In order to create a "shopping basket", I tag each user with a unique serial number as they enter the site. How this is done is an implementation issue, but using the srand() function with an incremented seed worked in my case. This "user tag" is stored in each subsequent page passed to the user as a "hidden" variable. For instance, if a user's ID is ABC12345, each page passed back to the user would contain: In this way, all I need to do is examine the userid: key/value pair passed back with each POST operation to tell who sent it. You can then use this value with your "shopping basket" database to log all of the transactions performed by a particular user. If you are using a GET operation, the user ID code can be passed as a query string (http://www.mysite.com/mypage?userid=ABC12345). While this sounds simple in concept, in actuallity it manifests itself as a good deal of code. Some things that must be accomplished: 1. Identifying when the user is "entering" the site (indication is entry page URL with no hidden user ID value). 2. Clean-up: Identifying when the user has left the sight and purging all the old transactions. 3. Security: Detecting folks trying to hack the site 4. Error handling. 5. etc. I have not revisited this problem since those early days. I'm sure there are smarter ways to accomplish the same thing with all of the functionality provided by the newer WWW environments (using "cookies" perhaps), but what the hell... it worked. Solves the dynamically allocated IP address problem too. Hope this is helpful. Regards, Scott Munro Aardvark Interactive, LLC smunro@connix.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:45:15 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Re: Shopping any1? Request for Advice Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Phil Greenspun wrote: >Shopping carts are very 1994. When I do a system like this today, the >first time the user asks to order something, I ask for all the >information (address, credit card, whatever). I write back a magic >cookie header with some kind of unique key (maybe his email address, >maybe a number from a database-based sequence generator). Next time he >says he wants to order something, my Tcl code sees the cookie header and >says "do you want to add to your previous order?" When do you actually process the order? (How do you know when the order is complete?) What do you do with the credit card number to verify the transaction with the bank? ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:09:20 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Nathan Lewis Subject: GNN/AOL server for i386 NT 3.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am looking for a verison of NaviServer, GNNServer, or AOLServer that will run on i386 (intel based) Windows NT version 3.50. I know the newest version requires version 3.51, but this is not what our school district owns. We are setting up an NT machine with 3.50, because we bought it a while ago to see if we liked it better than Novell. As it turns out, we didn't like it as well for File and Printing, but it does do internet services a lot better, so now that we are getting a 56k leased line, we pulled it out again. I managed to find a DNS server, and an SMTP program that will run on 3.50, and I thought it would be great to get one of the above Web Servers running on it, because NaviPress/GNNPress/AOLPress are so easy to use and setup, it would be great for high school students who want to make their own web pages (during study hall) and not have to deal with FTP. Bottom line: I need a version of NaviServer or GNNServer or AOLServer that will run on an intel-based Windows NT version 3.50. I don't care if it's an old Beta version with a bunch of security problems, or if it doesn't support Virtual Web servers, and I don't need the Illustra databasing program either. Our department doesn't have the money to upgrade our NT server to 3.51 right now though. Thank you for your time, Nathan Lewis saturn@dataex.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:51:15 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Searching Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Is there a way to get textblade-like searching available for more structured stuff? I want people to be able to search a list I have based on city and state. The list is currently in a database table. I'd like to have the search be forgiving with regard to case, spelling, and so forth and the textblade seems to have most of that, but I can only see how to index a document in an external file, and it seems silly to create a bunch of files that only have a city and state line in them. Thanks, Pete. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 01:08:50 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Philip Greenspun Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 20 Jul 1996 to 22 Jul 1996 Comments: cc: Jonathan Yarden In-Reply-To: <199607230403.AAA12964@services.web.aol.com> (message from Automatic digest processor on Tue, 23 Jul 1996 00:01:13 -0400) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:54:10 -0400 From: Jonathan Yarden Subject: Stupid Illustra tricks... Maybe I'm a little dense, but I have yet to find out how Illustra can be coerced into doing the following: 1. Extending an existing column of a table. I just need to add 2 characters to a column, that's it. A no-brainer, right? You mean go from CHAR(1) to CHAR(3) or something? I think you're hosed. You'll have to rename the column to old_column, then alter table foobar add column new_column char(3); update foobar set new_column = old_column; update foobar set old_column = null; 2. Deleting a column from a table. No, not rename, remove. Simple huh? I've spend over an hour on the phone with the Illustra tech's, and the seem to have difficulty understanding the nature of my questions. I'm sure I am not the only person on the planet who has asked these questions, so somebody out there has the answers. Then again, it's entirely possible that I'm just too stupid to use databases... Actually, I was just tonight telling someone outside the MIT Student Center that "you could train an ape to do what I do" [build relational database-backed Web sites]... If you had the Illustra User's Guide, you'd see that alter table can rename a column or a table, but it can't drop a column. This used to enrage me but then I realized that I could just update table_foobar set dead_column = NULL; and move on with my life. So rename your column to "this_would_be_history_if_I_were_an_Oracle_Achiever", NULL it out, and be happy. If you read my http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/wtr/illustra-tips.html then you'll see that you want to get your data model right the first time anyway. If you don't have a dead trees version of Illustra User's Guide, just go to http://www.illustra.com and look at all the docs on-line... Oops! I was thinking of NaviSoft. Illustra is still waiting to see if this Internet fad catches on... BTW, the full Illustra product is about $70,000... "Gee Wally, I sure wish I had $70,000 to blow on a database server with lousy documentation and non-standard SQL!" At least they did give you a quote. Oracle seems to randomly vary between $1,500 and $64,000 when you ask for a Web site quote. They've vaguely announced "new Internet pricing" but they're also going to wait another 27 years to see if this Internet fad catches on (i.e., the prices aren't on their Web site). Given the violence inflicted on http://photo.net/photo/ this weekend by the Illustra PLS Blade, I'm not sure why I'm defending Illustra SQL, but I can say that (1) the things that enrage me the most about Illustra SQL, e.g., "current_date - interval '1' month" can result in an error, are actually ANSI standard (2) the Illustra extensions per se are rather nice, e.g., the boolean type -- Philip Greenspun ------------------------------------------------------------- MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 545 Technology Square, Rm 609, Cambridge, MA 02139, (617) 253-8574 Personal Web URL: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/philg/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:01:08 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Doug McKee Subject: Re: Searching In-Reply-To: (petej@clickvision.com) >>>>> "Pete" == Peter M Jansson writes: Pete> Is there a way to get textblade-like searching available for Pete> more structured stuff? I want people to be able to search a Pete> list I have based on city and state. The list is currently Pete> in a database table. I'd like to have the search be Pete> forgiving with regard to case, spelling, and so forth and Pete> the textblade seems to have most of that, but I can only see Pete> how to index a document in an external file, and it seems Pete> silly to create a bunch of files that only have a city and Pete> state line in them. You're pretty much out of luck as far as using text blade if you don't want to use external files. However, you could try creating an auxiliary column where you keep a normalized version of the city and state (e.g., all lower case and 2 letter state abbreviations). Then perform the same normalization on the query and use "like" matching (e.g., where citystate_norm like '%ma%' and citystate_norm like '%framingham%'). doug -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Doug McKee America Online, Inc. Email: doug@sb.aol.com 511 Bath Street Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA (805) 882-2350 93101 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:06:48 +0000 Reply-To: jlemcke@image-sys.com Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jack Lemcke Organization: Image Systems Inc. Subject: illustra error MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, After adding a new illustradb and deleting the old I get the following error when starting gnnserver. Warning: NS_DbDriverInit (illustra): Could not read the MiParams file: MiParams. Unknown: Can;t open MI_SYSPARAMS file 'MiParams': No such file or directory. Trying MiParams Thanx in advance... jl ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:58:32 CDT Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Tank (SPM)" Subject: Current capacity of GNN 2.031 on NT 3.51 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Can anyone there at Navisoft/GNN/AOL tell me what the current benchmarks = for GNN v2.031 running on NT 3.51 I am currently being asked about expected performance (hit capacity) for = GNN v2.031 on a 200Mhz P6 running NT 3.51. Any comments? =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Tank (SPM) Sean P. McNamara Tank@PG.NET The Planet Group, Inc. Network Operations Center Voice: (312) 772-8333 Fax: (312) 772-9214 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 04:26:59 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Shutdown timeouts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" [24/Jul/1996:04:21:26 -0500][261.325] Notice: Continuing shutdown. [24/Jul/1996:04:21:35 -0500][261.325] Notice: Continuing shutdown. [24/Jul/1996:04:21:41 -0500][261.257] Fatal: Timeout waiting for server to shutdown; exceeded 60 seconds. To increase the shutdown time, set the MaxStopWait key in the [NS\Parameters] section of the following server configuration file to a higher value: d:\NaviSoft\Server\nsd.ini [24/Jul/1996:04:21:41 -0500][261.257] Fatal: Service shutting down. [24/Jul/1996:04:21:45 -0500][213.317] Notice: Log opened: d:/NaviSoft/Server/log/server.log This is happening consistently on our server. We do have databases attached to a couple of the virtual servers (there are 9 virtual servers). We've tried increasing the timeout to 300 seconds, but it still times out. Where should we start looking for the cause of this? There was a time when it didn't do this, but it's been so long ago that we've forgotten everything that's changed since. Thanks, Pete. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 03:35:24 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Malte Sussdorff Subject: Global Parameters Hello, I'm stuck on the following: I have a variable, that i use very often in nearly all my TCL Procedures. It Contains an HTML List, wich is generated out of the Database. Any Possibility to make it global and to generate if something changes (i would write to the variable as soon as something changes] ?? Thanx in advance Malte --- Malte Sussdorff Web Site Administration Bertelsmann Online ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:36:52 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Shutdown timeouts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:26 AM 7/24/96 -0400, Peter M. Jansson wrote: >[24/Jul/1996:04:21:26 -0500][261.325] Notice: Continuing shutdown. >[24/Jul/1996:04:21:35 -0500][261.325] Notice: Continuing shutdown. >[24/Jul/1996:04:21:41 -0500][261.257] Fatal: > > Timeout waiting for server to shutdown; exceeded 60 seconds. > To increase the shutdown time, set the MaxStopWait key in the > [NS\Parameters] section of the following server > configuration file to a higher value: > > d:\NaviSoft\Server\nsd.ini > >[24/Jul/1996:04:21:41 -0500][261.257] Fatal: Service shutting down. >[24/Jul/1996:04:21:45 -0500][213.317] Notice: Log opened: >d:/NaviSoft/Server/log/server.log > >This is happening consistently on our server. We do have databases >attached to a couple of the virtual servers (there are 9 virtual servers). >We've tried increasing the timeout to 300 seconds, but it still times out. >Where should we start looking for the cause of this? > >There was a time when it didn't do this, but it's been so long ago that >we've forgotten everything that's changed since. What version are you running? There are a few shutdown problems in 2.1b6 on NT which cause the server to hang or crash at shutdown but generally this just means one or more connections didn't finish in the 60 second grace period for shutdown. On the www.aolserver.com site we almost always get this message because there's normally a few people downloading software from our site and the downloads take more than 60 seconds. -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:42:33 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Global Parameters Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:35 AM 7/24/96 -0400, Malte Sussdorff wrote: >Hello, > >I'm stuck on the following: > >I have a variable, that i use very often in nearly all my TCL Procedures. >It Contains an HTML List, wich is generated out of the Database. > >Any Possibility to make it global and to generate if something changes (i >would write to the variable as soon as something changes] ?? For version 2.1, global variables are shared as described at: http://www.aolserver.com/server/docs/2.1b/html/v21-api1.htm for prior verions you can use the ns_eval command as described at: http://www.aolserver.com/server/docs/2.0/html/tcl-ch15.htm Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 11:14:08 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: nsql hangs Comments: cc: illustra-support@illustra.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:05 PM 7/17/96 -0400, Peter M. Jansson wrote: >I posted this question a while back, and I'm still hoping that someone out >there can help me understand what happened to the Illustra DB running under >GNNServer. If this sounds familiar, or if you can otherwise postulate a >way to prevent the situation from happening, please send me a message. >Thanks. > >-- >I have been having a bunch of database problems, and now have identified a >case in which when I issue the following command: > > nsql -U miadmin -P adminpw -T -c "select * from generalListings where >listingID = '2047.2046';" realdb > >it never returns. I have been able to issue selects on the individual >fields in the row with success, but when I ask for the entire row, it >hangs. > >How do I find out what's wrong and/or how to fix/get around it? Hello, A few users have reported Illustra version 3.1 hanging on NT 3.51. We reproduced a hang on NT Server which wouldn't occur on NT Workstation. This was reported to Illustra several months ago and they said a fix would show up in the Illustra 3.2 release which should be out shortly. Another user reported that installing Service Pak 4 solved the problem. If your running NT Server, try NT Workstation with Service Pak 4 if possible. Otherwise, I'm afraid we'll have to wait for the Illustra 3.2 release. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:39:28 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Philip Greenspun Subject: Re: GNNDEVELOPER-L Digest - 22 Jul 1996 to 23 Jul 1996 Comments: cc: petej@clickvision.com In-Reply-To: <199607240402.AAA23835@services.web.aol.com> (message from Automatic digest processor on Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:01:53 -0400) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:45:15 -0400 From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Re: Shopping any1? Request for Advice Phil Greenspun wrote: >Shopping carts are very 1994. When I do a system like this today, the >first time the user asks to order something, I ask for all the >information (address, credit card, whatever). I write back a magic >cookie header with some kind of unique key (maybe his email address, >maybe a number from a database-based sequence generator). Next time he >says he wants to order something, my Tcl code sees the cookie header and >says "do you want to add to your previous order?" When do you actually process the order? (How do you know when the order is complete?) What do you do with the credit card number to verify the transaction with the bank? You can go to http://mmnewsstand.com and try it out (though actually I haven't implemented the cookie thing there yet so it is just one shot). This particular site is owned by Hearst Corporation (a $3 billion publisher). The orders are sent (encrypted) on demand to a Hearst division whose only function is to insert orders for magazines and such into a IBM maintain VSAM file (yow!). From there, I guess they have their regular credit card processing. I'm not sure how to do it for a regular site. Presumably Netscape Secure Courier is the right thing, but I haven't looked into it because Hearst doesn't need/want it. Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:01:08 -0700 From: Doug McKee Subject: Re: Searching >>>>> "Pete" == Peter M Jansson writes: Pete> Is there a way to get textblade-like searching available for Pete> more structured stuff? I want people to be able to search a Pete> list I have based on city and state. The list is currently Pete> in a database table. I'd like to have the search be Pete> forgiving with regard to case, spelling, and so forth and Pete> the textblade seems to have most of that, but I can only see Pete> how to index a document in an external file, and it seems Pete> silly to create a bunch of files that only have a city and Pete> state line in them. You're pretty much out of luck as far as using text blade if you don't want to use external files. However, you could try creating an auxiliary column where you keep a normalized version of the city and state (e.g., all lower case and 2 letter state abbreviations). Then perform the same normalization on the query and use "like" matching (e.g., where citystate_norm like '%ma%' and citystate_norm like '%framingham%'). Not that I would dream of correcting the incredible Doug McKee... but Doug forgot to mention that you don't have to leave the external files around. You can use /tmp files when you are inserting/updating data and then flush them afterwards. To get the data out, you can use "GetDocText(doc_column_1)" (I think that's the name of the function; RTFM). Also, if you're going to do "like" matching, I'm not sure you need to do the aux column. You can just say WHERE UPPER(CITY) LIKE UPPER('%$user_query_string%') Philip ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:49:04 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Re: nsql hangs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >A few users have reported Illustra version 3.1 hanging on NT 3.51. We >reproduced a hang on NT Server which wouldn't occur on NT Workstation. This >was reported to Illustra several months ago and they said a fix would show >up in the Illustra 3.2 release which should be out shortly. Another user >reported that installing Service Pak 4 solved the problem. I was able to distill this to a reproducible event for Illustra, who took the file (a "copy" of a table showing the problem). We are waiting for their response. (Incidentally, the folks at Informix with whom we have worked are being very helpful.) I don't know if ours is the same problem as yours; it seems to be related to the content of the data (like certain characters stored in text fields are wedging Illustra somehow), although the specific content that causes the problem is as yet unidentified. We'll report what Illustra advises us when they get back to us. Pete. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:49:01 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Re: Shutdown timeouts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >What version are you running? version 2.033 on NT 3.51 SP 4. >normally a few people downloading software from our site and the downloads >take more than 60 seconds. We've had several cases where we were in telephone contact with everyone with a connection, and we had everybody get off. Also, the access log showed no accesses during the shutdown period. pete. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:59:48 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Ryan Houlette Subject: PrimeHost problems? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi folks. This is a little off-topic, but I'm not sure where else to turn right now. We're running a large website off of AOL's PrimeHost hosting service, and we're having problems with users not being able to access our site. We're running Apache 1.1.1 (for documents) and GNNserver 2.0.3 (for Illustra) on an SGI box under IRIX 6.2. Basically what I'd like to know is, has anyone else on AOL's hosting service had recurring problems with their network service? Or are there known bugs in IRIX, etc, that might be causing network problems? Thanks, Ryan -- Ryan Houlette The Auto Channel East rhoulett@theautochannel.com 624 W. Main St, 6th Floor phone: +1 502 584 4100 Louisville, KY 40202 http://nexus.theautochannel.com/~rhoulett http://www.theautochannel.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:40:13 +1 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Hensman Subject: Installing GNNPress on a Novell Network MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Attempting to run GNNPress over a Novell Network causes an execution error. It seems to be associated with the GNNPress executable being on a different drive to the Windows installation. Any ideas as to how to remedy this? Thanks Jim Hensman (webmaster@coventry.ac.uk) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:02:19 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: PrimeHost problems? Comments: To: Ryan Houlette Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:59 AM 7/25/96 -0400, you wrote: >Hi folks. This is a little off-topic, but I'm not sure where >else to turn right now. We're running a large website off >of AOL's PrimeHost hosting service, and we're having problems >with users not being able to access our site. We're running >Apache 1.1.1 (for documents) and GNNserver 2.0.3 (for Illustra) >on an SGI box under IRIX 6.2. Ryan, We have had rare instances where an ISP had incorrectly configured their network or DNS, which caused problems for that ISP's customers. We will deal with these promptly on a case-by-case basis; if anyone has such an access problem, please notify us right away at . I believe we are working on a couple of specific cases you've reported. You have a direct channel to our support manager, which is your best way to address such issues quickly. In this case, I also think tech support has also suggested modifications to your server configuration which might address some of these issues. Of course, if anyone knows of any bugs in Irix that might affect web or TCP/IP services, we'd like to hear about them too. Regards, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:41:00 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Windows AOLpress 1.2 Installation Comments: To: gnnhost-l@services.web.aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Windows AOLpress 1.2 Installation -- Known Problems and Workarounds: Several of you have experienced some trouble extracting and installing Windows AOLpress. We're working on permanent solutions, but we wanted to get these workarounds out to you quickly so everyone can begin to use the 1.2 version's enhanced features now. ----------- If, after the AOLpress install program has extracted the setup files, you receive one of the following errors you have encountered a known bug. "Setup is unable to decompress and copy all of the program files needed to proceed with the installation. Contact your software vendor. Error 112." or "Requires _SETUP.DLL and _ISRES.DLL (located in _SETUP.LIB) in order to operate properly. Please insure these files are located with setup.exe" This is caused by the presence of a file, _INST32I.EX_, in the systems temp directory (where the Installer extracts the setup files). The workaround is to remove this file and run the AOLpress installer again. The installer determines from the operating system which temp directory to use. It is usually c:\windows\temp, c:\temp, or c:\dos; if you don't know which is your temp directory, please check each of these locations for the file above. Error=-9 If you recieve an Error=-9 when installing AOLpress it means that the installer was damaged during the download. The solution here is to download the file again. If you are using AOL as your service provider we suggest signing off and signing back on before attempting the download again. ----------- Regards, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, AOL PrimeHost *Web hosting with multiple-T3 connectivity and 7x24 monitoring *AOLserver software, with relational database and full APIs ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:26:10 +0000 Reply-To: jlemcke@image-sys.com Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jack Lemcke Organization: Image Systems Inc. Subject: illustra index MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Illustra db install OK on SGI but not without a few kinks. I do not have the 'index' option in the Database Services///Create Table... The not null and unique are the only options... Also, a new illustra user 'nsadmin' was givien 't' access but the db would not initialize properly unless I use miadmin. help.. thanx in advance jl ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:10:16 +0000 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Christof Schmidbauer Organization: Ferengi Institute for Business Ethics Subject: Running CGI-BINS on GNNServer 2.031 NT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I am experiencing difficulties in running a specific cgi-bin using GNNServer 2.031 under Windows NT 3.51 SP4. After receiving a query, the CGI-BIN connects via TCP/IP to a second NT-Server, where it requests a Datastream and passes these Data to a Java-Applet. This works well with the Spry and the EMWACS webserver. Under GNNserver the applet cannot connect to the remote server. I doublechecked the CGI-BIN configuration on our server, testing several cgi-bins (compiled C-Executables and Perl-Scripts), all worked well. Even our cgi-bin will return error-strings, but still no TCP/IP connection. Running the cgi-bin from the command prompt with the query string works well and we get the datastream in return. A simple solution would be a second Webserver (e.g. EMWACS) running on another port. But I would prefer to run only my favourite webserver (GNNserver) on this machine. I would appreciate any pointer to a solution. TIA --Christof Christof Schmidbauer jwgi@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de @ Teledata Boerseninformations GmbH: cschmidb@teledata.de @ Vereinigung Technischer Analysten Deutschlands e.V. http://caladan.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/VTAD/ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:07:48 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Michael Bielicki Subject: Still old log Mdule in Beta 6 ??? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi all :)) I have read a lot in the release notes for 2.1 beta 6 about this wonderfull new log module which does not seem to be included into the Solaris version. Am I doing something wrong ??? Michael ========= ____ ===== ======== / / / ___ ___ /_ ====== ======= /---- / / / / /___/ / ======= ====== /____ /___/ / / /___ /_ ======== ===== ========= Michael Bielicki Tel: +357 (0)2 759 114 Technical Operations Fax: +357 (0)2 759 852 Cylink Ltd. / EUnet Cyprus http://www.Cyprus.EU.net #202, 54 Digheni Akritas Ave. e-mail: michael@Cyprus.EU.net Nicosia 1660, Cyprus ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 16:52:12 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: illustra index Comments: To: jlemcke@image-sys.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:26 PM 7/26/96 +0000, Jack Lemcke wrote: >Hello, >Illustra db install OK on SGI but not without a few kinks. I do not >have the 'index' option in the Database Services///Create Table... The >not null and unique are the only options... >Also, a new illustra user 'nsadmin' was givien 't' access but the db >would not initialize properly unless I use miadmin. >help.. Try granting select privilege on the tables and columns tables for nsadmin: grant select on table tables to nsadmin; grant select on table columns to nsadmin; Without this privilege the AOLserver can't fetch the list of tables and their columns from the database which breaks most everything in the ad-hoc Tcl query system. Cheers, -Jim _________________________________________________ Jim Davidson | jimbo@sb.aol.com AOLserver Project Manager | America Online Inc. | 511 Bath Street | Voice: (800) 529-9166 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 | Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 19:00:39 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Running CGI-BINS on GNNServer 2.031 NT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:10 PM 7/26/96 +0000, Christof Schmidbauer wrote: >I am experiencing difficulties in running a specific cgi-bin using >GNNServer 2.031 under Windows NT 3.51 SP4. > >After receiving a query, the CGI-BIN connects via TCP/IP to a second >NT-Server, where it requests a Datastream and passes these Data to a >Java-Applet. This works well with the Spry and the EMWACS webserver. > >Under GNNserver the applet cannot connect to the remote server. I >doublechecked the CGI-BIN configuration on our server, testing >several cgi-bins (compiled C-Executables and Perl-Scripts), all worked >well. Even our cgi-bin will return error-strings, but still no TCP/IP >connection. > >Running the cgi-bin from the command prompt with the >query string works well and we get the datastream in return. > >A simple solution would be a second Webserver (e.g. EMWACS) running >on another port. But I would prefer to run only my favourite >webserver (GNNserver) on this machine. > >I would appreciate any pointer to a solution. Hello, By default the AOLserver does not pass any of the process environment except the PATH variable to the CGI which I think is different than most servers. Try setting the "SystemEnvironment" configuration key of the nscgi module to "on" which will pass these variables and see if your problem goes away. Cheers, -Jim p.s., It's also possible to communicate with a remote server through Tcl using the ns_sockoen commmand. This is typically much faster because it avoids the process creation of CGI. _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 19:32:56 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Jim Davidson Subject: Re: Shutdown timeouts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:49 PM 7/24/96 -0400, Peter M. Jansson wrote: >>What version are you running? >version 2.033 on NT 3.51 SP 4. > > >>normally a few people downloading software from our site and the downloads >>take more than 60 seconds. >We've had several cases where we were in telephone contact with everyone >with a connection, and we had everybody get off. Also, the access log >showed no accesses during the shutdown period. It only takes one hung connection which wouldn't show up in the access log to keep the server from shutting down. However, it is possible the server is just getting wedged at shutdown. The code which handles shutdown is pretty complex with several threads working in tandem and signalling each other when it's safe to exit. This signalling is done with Ns_Event's and on NT there's a potential race condition in the 2.0x Ns_Event code. At this point I'm guessing the shutdown event is getting missed and the shutdown thread just continues to wait. As the race condition is very rare and only on NT and since Ns_Event's aren't used in any critical systems while the server is actually running, there are no plans to post a patch for this problem. The Ns_Event code in 2.1 has been fixed and the shutdown code streamlined in general so we don't expect any shutdown problems with the next release. For now you can set the MaxStopWait [ns/parameters] key to a lower value, perhaps 10 seconds, to ensure a faster shutdown. Cheers, -Jim _______________________ Jim Davidson jimbo@sb.aol.com Voice: (805) 882-2350 Fax: (805) 899-4316 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:33:30 -0700 Reply-To: escoffon@pauahtun.com Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Emil Scoffone Subject: Re: Running CGI-BINS on GNNServer 2.031 NT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christof Schmidbauer wrote: > > I am experiencing difficulties in running a specific cgi-bin using > GNNServer 2.031 under Windows NT 3.51 SP4. > > After receiving a query, the CGI-BIN connects via TCP/IP to a second > NT-Server, where it requests a Datastream and passes these Data to a > Java-Applet. This works well with the Spry and the EMWACS webserver. > > Under GNNserver the applet cannot connect to the remote server. I > doublechecked the CGI-BIN configuration on our server, testing > several cgi-bins (compiled C-Executables and Perl-Scripts), all worked > well. Even our cgi-bin will return error-strings, but still no TCP/IP > connection. > > Running the cgi-bin from the command prompt with the > query string works well and we get the datastream in return. > > A simple solution would be a second Webserver (e.g. EMWACS) running > on another port. But I would prefer to run only my favourite > webserver (GNNserver) on this machine. > > I would appreciate any pointer to a solution. > I had a similar problem with a different HTTP server; turns out that Winsocks code needs the environment variable windir, which was not set in the CGI environment. Try setting it in the CGI environment; you might also want to try temp and sysdir (compare with your system environment). Emil ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 16:58:56 -0000 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Alex Khassin Subject: NSSSL capabilities In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960727023256.0065fe4c@199.221.53.18> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_29tW57g.bO1996u.N16d000A.r07Y.58:002a61" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --=_29tW57g.bO1996u.N16d000A.r07Y.58:002a61 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When a script is run from an SSL page (i.e. POST https://am.net/NS/myscript) which ns_returns an HTML page or returns a file, is that data encrypted/secure? --=_29tW57g.bO1996u.N16d000A.r07Y.58:002a61 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="alexsig.txt" Content-Description: The Sender's Signature -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Khassin AM Computers mailto:akhassin@am.net 1040-B N. Dutton Ave Voice: (800) 579-2018 Santa Rosa, CA 95401 (707) 579-2010 http://am.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Source for Advanced Computing Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------- am.net = The Best Hosting Service with integrated database, secure transactions, real-time credit card processing and more ---------------------------------------------------------------- --=_29tW57g.bO1996u.N16d000A.r07Y.58:002a61-- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 10:36:57 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: John Mantegna Subject: Re: NSSSL capabilities Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:58 PM 7/29/96 -0000, you wrote: >When a script is run from an SSL page (i.e. POST >https://am.net/NS/myscript) which ns_returns an HTML page or returns a >file, is that data encrypted/secure? > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline; filename="alexsig.txt" >Content-Description: The Sender's Signature > > >-- >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Alex Khassin AM Computers >mailto:akhassin@am.net 1040-B N. Dutton Ave >Voice: (800) 579-2018 Santa Rosa, CA 95401 > (707) 579-2010 http://am.net >---------------------------------------------------------------- > The Source for Advanced Computing Solutions >---------------------------------------------------------------- > am.net = The Best Hosting Service with integrated database, > secure transactions, real-time credit card processing and more >---------------------------------------------------------------- > Yes. The SSL driver is associated with the 'conn' structure such that all I/O associated with the connection (via TCL or C API) will be encrypted. -John ______________________________________________ John Mantegna AOL Santa Barbara Vox:805-882-2350 511 Bath St. Fax:805-882-4316 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 14:41:25 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Barlow Subject: Gnn counter Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I read in the Gnn developers source code section about the counter.c file and useing it with Gnnserver and yet there is no copy of the counter.dll file to be found? Also according to Gnn readme.txt file the counter.dll is included as well Where can I find this .DLL and other such files to work with Gnnserver? Could anyone please recommend a cgi script hit counter if the counter.Dll is not available thankyou Kerry http://204.181.7.192 barlow@servtech.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:39:52 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: gnat Subject: Handling file uploads through Netscape MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Awhile back there were a few people looking for how to accept and decode files sent to the NaviServer via Netscape using the form tag. I have completed the module that allows you to do this via Tcl. The idea is that you do the majority of the connection work through Tcl then pass the connection info, along with file names, to the module and it reads the info out of the content information and writes it to a file, then finds and saves the true file. Currently it only handles indiviual files. It you try uploading a directory it will crash, i'm not quite sure how to fix or block that. I have tested it with 2MB and smaller files with no trouble, it is designed to handle up to almost 10MB files. I tried for larger files but memset was giving me trouble with using an char array with INT_MAX elements. As it is you may be able to plug in a higher number and have it work, 9.9MB is enough for me and i'm not interested in picking at it until I figure out why memset doesn't like the giant array. Anyway, you can find it at http://www.deadend.org/dev/c_tcl.html. Please let me know if you have any questions about it. As usual I offer this code for example purposes only. I have only tested it on an SGI under the circumstances I need it for. I hold no claims on its reliablity on other platforms or other needs. I will be glad to help with any questions that I can and will attempt to fix bugs whenever I find/hear about them. Enjoy. David Whittle Internet Systems Developer Digital City, Inc. (P) (703) 918-2465 (F) (703) 918-1207 (E) gnat@aol.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:11:20 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: Liankui Sun Subject: Help needed on Illustra Database Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, After I have started to use illustra database with GNNserver, I got two problems, 1. the search results contains Images Server I expect the results will return a link, but the search results return me as following HTML code, <a href=http://mech02.me.sc.edu/ target="data">Images Server</a> How could I get the results return a link instead of HTML itself. 2. How could I do Boolean search in illustra database. How could I do a case unsensitive search? Any help is appreciated! Sun ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 09:24:07 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service Sender: Web Development with GNNserver and GNN Hosting Service From: BPVW89K@CPUSIC.BELL-ATL.COM Subject: Re: Gnn counter Comments: To: "owner-gnndeveloper-l(a)SERVICES.WEB.AOL.COM" , "barlow(a)servtech.com" Kerry: There is a very good CGI hit counter with 5 different digit formats, date and time functions and is available as a source and for NT in the compiled version. The URL you can download it from is at http://www.semcor.com/~muquit/Count.html. This does not require Server Side Includes to be enabled on the server. This is a CGI. HTH - Sankar, M.C. Bell Atlantic bpvw89k@bell-atl.com Also at: m_c_sankar@msn.com ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Gnn counter Author: owner-gnndeveloper-l@SERVICES.WEB.AOL.COM at INTERNET Date: 7/30/96 3:28 PM Attachment file number 1, file name Creation date: July 30, 1996 21:17:45 Document Type: ASCI, Document Class: MEMO Author: Comment: Gnn counter Level: 1, Number : 1 I read in the Gnn developers source code section about the counter.c file and useing it with Gnnserver and yet there is no copy of the counter.dll file to be found? Also according to Gnn readme.txt file the counter.dll is included as well Where can I find this .DLL and other such files to work with Gnnserver? Could anyone please recommend a cgi script hit counter if the counter.Dll is not available thankyou Kerry http://204.181.7.192 barlow@servtech.com ----------------------------------------------------------------