========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:07:33 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Dan Levy Subject: Separate authorization file for virtual hosts? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This query comes from a person who is using a virtual host on my server (GNN 2.033 on Solaris 2.5). I am a Primehost dedicated customer: From the GNNserver documentation it looks like there is a single server-wide authorization file (or "user" file), and that you then control access to subsets of your server with subsets of users by putting users into groups or listing user names explicitly in the server configuration. I have CGI-based Web conferencing software that needs its own separate authorization file that it can maintain itself, so that users can register with usernames and passwords without administrator intervention. The software adds and removes user names from the authorization file itself. Ideally this file should be in DBM format rather than flat, for efficiency with large numbers of users. With the NCSA or Apache servers, you'd do something like this: AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /users/foo/data/passwd DBM AuthName Motet require valid-user An equivalent thing is possible with the Netscape servers as well. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 11:40:54 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Stefano Fornari Organization: Stigma OnLine Subject: 'ns_event wait' syntax MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What is the real syntax for ns_event wait? The 'Tcl Interface' manual say : ns_event wait [timeout], but the command 'ns_event wait $eventID' returns the error: 'wrong # args: should be "ns_event wait event lock ?timeout?"'. What is lock ? Stefano Fornari ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:45:53 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Infowave Customer Support Subject: process killed with signal 13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Has anyone resolved this? We had a memory leak and server hang problem that AOLServer 2.1 is supposed to fix. Unfortunately, when we upgrade our server to 2.1, it runs and dies for no apparent reason with the same error as below. So we are really concerned whether this problem has been fixed. Please help, thanks, Wendy Liu InfoWave Communications Corp. >HELP!!!! > >We have the same problem with AOLserver 2.1. The server runs for about >a half hour then bombs with the error: > >[18/Sep/1996:14:21:18 -0600][21090] Warning: Process 21091 killed with >signal 13 > >I also found that the original init server does not go away as before. >Is this a symptom of the problem? > > root 21782 21049 5 14:33:02 pts/7 0:00 grep nsd > root 21779 1 17 14:32:56 ? 0:00 bin/nsd -c /pub/AOLserver/nsd.ini > -i > www 21780 21779 80 14:32:56 ? 0:03 bin/nsd -c /pub/AOLserver/nsd.ini > -i -b5 > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:28:49 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Jonathan Yarden Subject: Re: process killed with signal 13 In-Reply-To: <19961002004553.AAA28834@wliu> from "Infowave Customer Support" at Oct 1, 96 05:45:53 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > Has anyone resolved this? We had a memory leak and server hang problem that > AOLServer 2.1 is supposed to fix. Unfortunately, when we upgrade our server > to 2.1, it runs and dies for no apparent reason with the same error as > below. So we are really concerned whether this problem has been fixed. > > Please help, thanks, > Wendy Liu > InfoWave Communications Corp. > One of the sites I manage (www.cobb.com) anywhere from 200,000 to 400,000 hits in a given day, more if a new M$ product is being announced. I get this error all of the time on CGI's. According to what the signal list says, it is a SIGPIPE error, meaning that the output pipe (in this case, a peer-to-peer TCP socket) has been closed. I get this on cgi-bins like crazy until the virtual server stops dead. As for a fix I have none but have asked the same question. Jon Yarden, Internet Tool & Die ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 12:54:38 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Jonathan Yarden Subject: cgi-bin wierdness... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am using AOLServer 2.034 on IRIX and am having lots of problems running cgi-bin's. Specifically, I have a rotating advertisment system that runs a a cgi-bin which returns a "Location: " redirect for both the GIF and the link. It's written in C and I have used this on dozens of other systems (including IRIX) but not with AOLServer. I have also noticed that repeatedly running a cgi-bin of any kind on the AOLServer will cause the same problems. Anyone have any answers for this? Jon Yarden, Internet Tool & Die ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 13:25:12 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Jonathan Yarden Subject: Re: Separate authorization file for virtual hosts? In-Reply-To: from "Dan Levy" at Oct 1, 96 06:07:33 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > This query comes from a person who is using a virtual host on my server > (GNN 2.033 on Solaris 2.5). I am a Primehost dedicated customer: > > >From the GNNserver documentation it looks like there is a single > server-wide authorization file (or "user" file), and that you then control > access to subsets of your server with subsets of users by putting users > into groups or listing user names explicitly in the server configuration. > > I have CGI-based Web conferencing software that needs its own separate > authorization file that it can maintain itself, so that users can register > with usernames and passwords without administrator intervention. The software > adds and removes user names from the authorization file itself. Ideally > this file should be in DBM format rather than flat, for efficiency with large > numbers of users. > > With the NCSA or Apache servers, you'd do something like this: > > > AuthType Basic > AuthUserFile /users/foo/data/passwd DBM > AuthName Motet > > require valid-user > > > > An equivalent thing is possible with the Netscape servers as well. > I have an authentication system that uses Illustra that I am feverishly rewriting to turn it into an AOLServer module. It currently is in TCL and SQL and handles authentication for over 300,000 users, although only about 20,000 actually use it now. The main problem is that Illustra is not suited for this type of application (actually, Illustra doesn't seem suitable for any transactional use at all, in my opinion...) and it is very slow. I also ran into the problem of not having an API to get at Illustra from a cgi-bin, which is what prompted this rewrite. Look into using a simple flat-file in TCL that can also be accessed from a cgi-bin. This is essentially what I am doing, with the exeception being that we purchased a database API to make it zippy. Jon Yarden, Internet Tool & Die ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 04:43:05 -0400 Reply-To: jim@meritnet.com Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Jim Wilcoxson Organization: Merit Software, Inc. Subject: ns_sendmail causes extra bounces MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The ns_sendmail TCL function can cause extra mail bounces if incorrect addresses are used. For example, sending to baduser@company.com should cause a mail bounce or immediate error for the sender only. But there is a "catch" around the SMTP conversation in ns_sendmail, so if the rcpt command response is "unknown user", an error is thrown and the SMTP socket is immediately closed. This disconnect causes a postmaster notification at company.com (lost input channel). To fix the problem, I added: if $err { _ns_smtp_send $wfp QUIT 1 } immediately after the "catch" in ns_sendmail. Jim ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 21:31:06 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Nathan Lewis Subject: Rookie Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" As my previous message stated, I just upgraded from beta 6 to full release 2.1. Everything worked fine during the upgrade, I'm just noticing some inconsistancies between the manual and my setup server. When I go to add modules, the nscgi and nsshtml are not there. I can load them manually, by typing in their names, but it won't give any specific info about them. If this is a clue, my info button under the Expert/Beginner button is a light bulb instead of the information booth. Thanks, Nathan Lewis saturn@dataex.com saturn@nhs.neenah.k12.wi.us ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 19:49:31 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Nathan Lewis Subject: AolServer Version 2.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm happy to report that upgrading from beta 6 to 2.1 fixed my problem of the server not being able to restart itself remotely under Windows NT 3.51 because I renamed the service during installation. I am also very pleased with the Adobe Acrobat manual. Although it took a very long time to print, from what I've used, it is very well written. I'm not a big fan of AOL for their online service, but I'm very impressed with their work on AOLServer. Keep up the excellent work! Thanks, Nathan Lewis saturn@dataex.com saturn@nhs.neenah.k12.wi.us ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 17:03:52 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Phil Askey Organization: In the office Subject: AOLServer 2.1 HTML documentation as a tar file ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi, Anyone at AOL.. any chance you could put the HTML documentation up as a tar (or zip) file, so we can download it and keep a local copy. I love the idea of a hypertext manual, but sometimes the speed of the net detracts from its usefulness.. Thanks, Phil -- Phil Askey | mailto:phil@askey.net Internet Consultant | http://phil.askey.net Ybir lbh Freran | phone:+44 1223 570496 / 508020 smail: 92 St Barnabas Rd, Cambridge CB1 2DE ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:19:56 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Philip Greenspun Subject: I'm not going to give away my source code anymore... I'm not going to give away my source code anymore... well, maybe I will but it turns out that people are having a tough time installing it. So instead, I've decided to OPERATE a couple of free Web-wide services. Try http://www.greenspun.com/spam/index.tcl if you want to maintain a mailing list for your site. Try http://www.greenspun.com/boohoo/index.tcl if you want to have a micro-Yahoo running at your site. All backed by NaviServer/Illustra. All made possible by the good folks at PrimeHost who are letting me use a server. Enjoy, -- 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, 3 Oct 1996 16:44:12 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Vojislav Lalich-Petrich Subject: MIME types Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello all, Can someone please tell me how to configure MIME type on the 2.033 server (NT) to get shockwave files server properly? Thanks, Voja. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:01:22 +0200 Reply-To: michael@cylink.net Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Michael Bielicki Subject: Statistics on the Server MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, I am trying to install packages like mkstats for the AOLserver 2.1 and run in the following problem: How can I make the server keep separate logs for referrer, error, accesses .......... Has anyone a good statistics package for the server ???? Michael ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:13:10 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: Problem with 2.1 upgrade I have been unable to reproduce the problem with all the the cf_VServices stuff, and so forth, but I have taken a look through the code, and have perhaps found a way to solve the problem. If you shut down the server, go into the modules/nssetup directory, and nuke the data.cac file (assuming that you have already upgraded to 2.1 and so have the newer version of the data.src file), that may do the trick. When you restart the server, a new data.cac file will be generated, and that may very well fix the problem some of you have been having. At the very least, it can't hurt anything. Happy hunting. Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:27:36 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: Problems setting up AOLserver to Illustra ----Filippo Niccolini wrote... >I have just subscribed to the AOLServer Developers Group, and have a >question to anyone who has some AOLServer/Illustra Database experience. > >We are testing our AOL server connection to Illustra DB by using >the examples provided in the Tcl Tutorial section (Example 4: >Interacting with the Database) of the AOL server documentation. > >Unfortunately, we are constantly facing with an error message saying: > >invalid command name "ns_db" > while executing > "ns_db gethandle $pool" > invoked from within > "set db [ns_db gethandle $pool]..." > (procedure "describetable" line 10) > invoked from within > "describetable nsc29 {}" Indeed, as the AOL tech support people mentioned, this message means that the AOLserver tcl interpreter cannot find the ns_db function. Since the ns_db function is part the the database module, this then means that your database module is not properly set up, as you found. This may be a function of having an older version of the server, where you have the pools set up properly, but do not have the nsdb module added to your virual server. If the problem is in 2.1, (or even if it's not), feel free to let me know what your setup currently is (or even better yet, include you nsd.ini). I'm afraid though that without more info, I can't be of much help. Thanx. Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:33:47 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: Undo ns_unregister_proc GET / ---Peter M. Jansen wrote... >I was working with two servers, trying to make as transparent as possible >the switch to the new one, so I created the following procedure: > >ns_register_proc GET / server_move > >proc server_move {c i} { > ns_returnredirect $conn "http://new.server.thing[ns_conn url $c]" >} > >Then I sent it to the wrong server. To try to right things, I was able to >evaluate the following TCL: > >ns_unregister_proc GET / > >but now I can't get any static pages off the server because they all >complain that there's no procedure registered to handle "GET /whatever". > >How do I fix this? Have you removed the first script (with the server_move), and then reinitialized the server (or even better, restarted it)? I you have, and the problem still persists, then you have a very interesting problem indeed. If after what I suggested above, the problem still persists, please let me know, and give me the details, and I'll get right on it. Thanx. Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:40:36 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: ns_event wait syntax ---Stefano Fornari wrote... >What is the real syntax for ns_event wait? >The 'Tcl Interface' manual say : ns_event wait [timeout], >but the command 'ns_event wait $eventID' returns the error: >'wrong # args: should be "ns_event wait event lock ?timeout?"'. > >What is lock ? This is actually a problem that I came across just a few days ago. The docs currently are incorrect, but are being fixed. The actual syntax for ns_event wait is: ns_event wait eventId lockId ?timeout? Where the lock id is the id of either a mutex lock, or a semaphore lock. Happy Hunting Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:17:46 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: CGI problems --- On Sun, 15 Sep 1996 18:31:10 PDT Tom Byrnes wrote: > Hi All! > > We're having a freaky problem with Aolserver. > > If multiple users are connected and running CGI or Perl (and not even > necessarily the same routing, just any of the above) the users get a > "Connection Reset by Peer" message in their browser on any CGI or PERL > execute action. > > This occurs when ANYONE ( even if they're the only one on the server) > using Microsoft Explorer 2.1 for Mac attempts to access a CGI page. Any > ideas? > > Using Aolserver 2.033 > > Would like to D/L 2.1 but www.aolserver.com has been unreachable since > Thursday. > > Have you been able to upgrade to 2.1 successfully? And if so, has this fixed the problem? I have been unable to reproduce this problem, but have just started in on it. If there are any special circumstances, please let me know so I can try to isolate the problem better. Thanx. Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:16:40 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: kennen blanning Subject: supported platforms? In-Reply-To: <199610040403.AAA05230@services.web.aol.com> from "Automatic digest processor" at Oct 4, 96 00:03:04 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hello, i'm wondering -- do you have any plans on porting aolserver to AIX? or supporting Linux on Alpha? thank you -- kennen@drawings.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:12:32 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Nielsen Subject: access limitations by ip address In-Reply-To: <199610050403.AAA05398@services.web.aol.com> from "Automatic digest processor" at Oct 5, 96 00:03:16 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is it possible with aolserver to allow access to more than one group of ip addresses? Let's say for example I wanted access to some pages allowed only by these two nets: 128.146.33.** 128.146.20.** I would think you would just specify both address in the access permissions menu with a /24 following them but it only allows one of the addresses when I list both. Is it possible to have 2 addresses listed? john ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:20:14 -0800 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Alex Khassin Subject: Eric, welcome to the list In-Reply-To: <199610041840.LAA19055@spaz.navisoft.com> Hey folks, it would seem we have a new support person from AOL SB on the list. Eric, I'd like to welcome you on behalf of the list. Perhaps you would care to introduce yourself and maybe tell us what your area of expertise is in the AOLServer project. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 01:14:55 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Stefan Arentz Subject: Illustra SGI <-> Linux AOLServer problems Hi there, We're trying to use the following setup: IRIX 5.3 box with Illustra Linux 2.0.21 box with AOLServer 2.1 build 1 The problem is that I can't get the database connection to work. When nsd starts I see the following message: Error: Ns_DbDriverInit(extill): ProxyDaemonPath or ProxyHost must be specified in config file But the documentation contains nothing about the ProxyDaemonPath or ProxyHost options. What is the correct syntax of those options and where in the config should I put them? Thanx in advance, -- Stefan Arentz PS. It looks like nsql is missing from the Linux distribution. I had to install the IRIX 5.3 dist. of AOLServer on the database server... Will this be changed in the future? ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:41:46 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Nielsen Subject: found answer for access permissions In-Reply-To: <199610050403.AAA05398@services.web.aol.com> from "Automatic digest processor" at Oct 5, 96 00:03:16 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I figured it out, ( was there a mention of this somewhere in the docs?). You can comma seperate mulitple address and have restrictions plaed on all of them for the URL. I was just seperating the ip addresses by spaces. john ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:04:51 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Mantegna Subject: Re: AOLserver 2.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:29 PM 9/18/96 PDT, you wrote: >I just tried to upgrade my AOLserver 2.033 to 2.1 and got a nasty surprise. > >When starting the service I get an error, > >unable to find procedure entry point ns_closeonexec in module nsd.dll. > This sounds like you may be loading an old 2.033 module. In 2.1, nscgi, nsdb, and nsshtml are all stub modules for backward (2.0x nsd.ini file) compatibility. Verify that these DLLs have all been replaced in your 2.1 installation. >I'm trying to upgrade to see if this will help with the pesky >"Connection Rest by peer" messages I'm getting running CGI and PERL or with >MAC Clients running MSIE 2.1. > After installing 2.1, let us know if this still occurs. -John ______________________________________________ John Mantegna AOL Santa Barbara Vox:805-882-2350 511 Bath St. Fax:805-882-9162 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:59:19 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Nielsen Subject: limiting exec server-side includes with wildcards In-Reply-To: <199610050403.AAA05398@services.web.aol.com> from "Automatic digest processor" at Oct 5, 96 00:03:16 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to prevent any url beginning with a ~ (i.e. a user`s home directory) from being able to run an exec with a server-side include), I have not been able to figure out how the wildcards ?, *, [] work. They don't seem to work like standard regular expressions. Or is there a problem because of the mapping of ~ to a user's home directory? For example, shouldn't: /~*(NoExec) or /~[a-zA-Z]*(NoExec) stop any url beginning with ~ from having exec? Thanks for any help. john ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 18:56:07 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Nielsen Subject: no recursion in shtml???? In-Reply-To: <199610050403.AAA05398@services.web.aol.com> from "Automatic digest processor" at Oct 5, 96 00:03:16 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to include a file that includes another file with server parsed html. However, AOLSERVER ignores the request for the 2nd file to be included. Is anyone able to get this to work? If so do you have to do anything special? It looks like the capability is not implemented at least it doesn't work on Solaris 2.5.1. john ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:30:27 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Valter Quenda Subject: indexing PDF files Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi everybody I would like to index some PDF files of my site. How can I obtain full text indexing of PDF files in AOLserver environment? Should I buy specific products? (what products?) thanks in advance Valter Quenda (v.quenda@crf.it) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:04:00 -0800 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Alex Khassin Subject: RE[2]: AOLserver 2.1 In-Reply-To: <199610071904.MAA20890@sb.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_08tW01g.bO1996u.N03d000A.r10Y.04:00787d" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --=_08tW01g.bO1996u.N03d000A.r10Y.04:00787d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >At 11:29 PM 9/18/96 PDT, you wrote: >>I just tried to upgrade my AOLserver 2.033 to 2.1 and got a nasty surprise. >> >>When starting the service I get an error, >> >>unable to find procedure entry point ns_closeonexec in module nsd.dll. >> I think the nsssl.dll module does this since it does not get updated by the installation procedure. John, it really should rename that file or something! --=_08tW01g.bO1996u.N03d000A.r10Y.04:00787d 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- --=_08tW01g.bO1996u.N03d000A.r10Y.04:00787d-- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:19:07 +0000 Reply-To: ted.goessling@mts.com Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Ted Goessling Organization: MTS Systems Corporation Subject: Re: indexing PDF files Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Valter Quenda wrote: > Hi everybody > I would like to index some PDF files of my site. How can I > obtain full text indexing of PDF files in AOLserver environment? > Should I buy specific products? (what products?) > thanks in advance I'm using the "SearchPDF(TM) for Web Servers v.1.0" CGI from http://www.verity.com/products/spdf_data.html with GNNserver v2.31. It works like a charm, doesn't take long to configure, and is FREE!! The only catch is that you must have Adobe Acrobat Catalog for Windows or Mac in order to create the "index" the Verity CGI uses. Catalog comes with Acrobat Exchange, which will cost you about $150. The free version of SearchPDF will allow you to create searchable indexes for up to four different document "collections" (directories). It's intended as a hook to get you interested in Verity's other search products. It was so easy to implement on my AOLserver that they do indeed have that hook firmly set! :-) Ted G. -- ====================================================================== Ted Goessling 14000 Technology Dr. ted.goessling@mts.com Technology Analyst Eden Prairie, MN 612-937-4824 ->vox MTS Systems Corporation 55344 USA 612-937-4515 ->fax ====================================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:06:50 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Stewart Subject: Error installing Linux version? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm trying to install the Linux version of AOLSERVER 2.1 (BTW, I have our company's Intranet running on Solaris no problem). When running nsbootstrap (linux kernel 2.0.6), I get the error: [08/Oct/1996:17:00:43 -0500][9974] Notice: AOLserver/2.1 build 1 starting. [08/Oct/1996:17:00:43 -0500][9974] Fatal: Startup failed initializing: fd utilities [08/Oct/1996:17:00:43 -0500][9973] Warning: Process 9974 killed with signal 9 I could find no mention of this error in the docs... does anyone have any idea? thanks John Stewart System Administrator Heurikon Corporation johns@heurikon.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:38:35 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Ray Davis Subject: secure passwords? With respect to entering a username/password when accessing a protected web: Am I assuming correctly that the password is sent from browser to server in cleartext (i.e. no encryption)? Or is the info already protected from net sniffers? If so, is it possible (perhaps with SSL) to have the username/password be sent to the server encrypted? Thanks, Ray ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:10:38 +0200 Reply-To: michael@cylink.net Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Michael Bielicki Subject: AOLserver 2.1 on Solaris gives errors on full text synchronization MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, I get the following error message when I try to resynchronize the full text stuff: Syncing the pages directory with the database: Creating list of pages in the files system ... Creating list of pages in the full text index ... Updating the full text index ... Error synchronizing the database: can't read "errInfo": no such variable Finished. Does somebody know what this means and how to get rid of it :)))) /???? Michael Bielicki Technical Director Managing Director PL-net Sp. z o.o. Buisnetco Ltd. Warszawa, Poland Nicosia, Cyprus http://www.cylink.com.cy/users/m/michael michael@cylink.net Get My PGP-Public-Key with: finger michael@www.cylink.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:48:13 +0200 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Marco Coletti Subject: Re: secure passwords? Comments: To: Ray Davis Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12.38 09/10/96 +0200, you wrote: >With respect to entering a username/password when accessing a >protected web: Am I assuming correctly that the password is >sent from browser to server in cleartext (i.e. no encryption)? Not in clear text but with a simple base64 encoding (see HTTP 1.0 specifications). That means no protection at all against sniffing attacks. >If so, is it possible (perhaps with SSL) to have the username/password >be sent to the server encrypted? Given that SSL is an encryption (and validation/authentication) layer between HTTP and TCP, any data sent or received by the browser is virtually uncrackable. -= MarCo =- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:51:08 +0200 Reply-To: ray@carpe.net Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Ray Davis Subject: Re: secure passwords? In-Reply-To: Automatic digest processor's message <199610100402.AAA29076@services.web.aol.com> of Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:01:11 EDT. >> With respect to entering a username/password when accessing a >> protected web: Am I assuming correctly that the password is >> sent from browser to server in cleartext (i.e. no encryption)? >> Or is the info already protected from net sniffers? >> >> If so, is it possible (perhaps with SSL) to have the username/password >> be sent to the server encrypted? > > Given that SSL is an encryption (and validation/authentication) layer > between HTTP and TCP, any data sent or received by the browser is virtually > uncrackable. So does that mean that a page http://foo.bar/stuff/ which requires a username/password, when called up via shttp://foo.bar/stuff/ would cause the username/password to be encrypted? Thanks, Ray ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:36:38 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: Access limitations by ip address. ---John Nielson wrote... >Is it possible with aolserver to allow access to more than one group >of ip addresses? > >Let's say for example I wanted access to some pages allowed only by >these two nets: > >128.146.33.** >128.146.20.** > >I would think you would just specify both address in the access >permissions menu with a /24 following them but it only allows >one of the addresses when I list both. Is it possible to have >2 addresses listed? Yep, it's quite possible. The only thing I think you were missing was a comma. Try this: 128.146.33.2/24, 128.146.20.2/24 The reason I used the .2 is as a filler. The *, ?, and [] are for use with actual host names, and the /24 or /(whatever) is just for ip. Hope that helps. Eric Klein ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:45:00 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Welcome ---Alex Khassin wrote... >Hey folks, it would seem we have a new support person from AOL SB on the >list. > >Eric, I'd like to welcome you on behalf of the list. > >Perhaps you would care to introduce yourself and maybe tell us what your >area of expertise is in the AOLServer project. No problem. My name is Eric Klein, and as you noted, I work for AOL in Santa Barbara. I am working on the server team doing debugging, and will be working with the PrimeHost development. I orrignally worked here as QA for the client, but have progressed on to where I am now. I am currently most familiar with the Tcl, the C & Tcl apis, and general server issues, but am willing to tackle just about any question directed my way. On of my big interests on the list is to find and identify new bugs, and report/fix them. Anyway, I'm here for questions, and help, and whatever. So, have at it... Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:20:53 -0400 Reply-To: philg@mit.edu Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Philip Greenspun Subject: performance questions In-Reply-To: <199610100403.AAA29080@services.web.aol.com> (message from Automatic digest processor on Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:01:11 -0400) We're moving our AOLServer at Hearst to a new computer, a SPARC Server 1000 with four CPUs. We have about 16 virtual servers. Here are two questions for discussion: 1) will we get highest performance running a single NSD process with 16 virtual servers, four with four each, or 16 NSDs with one virtual server each? 2) will Solaris 2.5 split the load of a single NSD process with, say, 50 threads running, across the four CPUs? Or do we have to have four separate NSD processes if we want to take advantage of multiprocessing? Anyone else out there running NSD on a multi-headed Solaris box? Philip ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:22:38 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: gnat Subject: Netscape File Upload handler. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello all, I have written a replacement for my original file upload handler. This time it is all in Tcl so it should be much more portable. This version is used instead of using "ns_conn form" to get your form data. You call it almost the same way: set formdata [get_multipart_formdata $conn] and it returns a ns_set with all the formdata. This code works by writing all the content to a file (so you can not use this and ns_conn form in the same script) then reads back through the file looking for posted files. As it does so it builds a new ns_set with all the formdata. When it finds a file in it, it replaces the field value with the file name that was sent by Netscape and creates a new field (_temp) and gives it the value of the temp file which it copies the included file to. After it is finished it returns the filled ns_set to the calling function so you can then do ns_set gets on it to get the data. Here are some untested theories I have about the code: 1) It should work on any 2.1 server since it is all in Tcl without any C extentions. They only thing that should need to change is how the temp files are named for any included files. NT can not (i think anyway) handle the convention I use, but it is simple to fix that. 2) It should work on 2.0 servers as well as 2.1 since I don't think I am using any 2.1 specific procedures. 3) It should handle multiple files being uploaded at once. Given the way I wrote it to handle included files it should happily handle as many files as you want to through at it, but I haven't tested it. You can get the code from http://www.deadend.org/dev/ in the Tcl Utilities section under "Examples of Tcl Scripts". If you have any questions please let me know. If someone tries it on 2.0 let me know and I will try to port it when I have spare time. If someone tries it on NT and has trouble please let me know since I may have to use this on NT in the future. Dave David Whittle Internet Systems Developer Digital City, Inc. (P) (703) 918-2465 (F) (703) 917-1207 (E) gnat@digitalcity.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:38:23 +0200 Reply-To: ray@carpe.net Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Ray Davis Subject: Re: secure passwords? Comments: To: Marco Coletti In-Reply-To: Your message <2.2.32.19961011111006.00685040@mbox.vol.it> of Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:10:06 +0200. > At 14.51 10/10/96 +0200, you wrote: > >> > >> Given that SSL is an encryption (and validation/authentication) layer > >> between HTTP and TCP, any data sent or received by the browser is virtually > >> uncrackable. > > > >So does that mean that a page http://foo.bar/stuff/ which requires > >a username/password, when called up via shttp://foo.bar/stuff/ would > >cause the username/password to be encrypted? > > As far as HTTP over SSL is involved (URL like https://foo.bar.com/stuff) the > answer is yes. > > For SHTTP (Secure HTTP) really I don't know. Oops - I meant to say https... Thanks, Ray ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:41:24 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Toni Pamies Subject: supported platforms? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hello, i'm wondering -- do you have any plans on porting aolserver to Linux on Sparc, or supporting Linux on Alpha? thank you ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:47:40 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: James F Smallacombe Subject: Re: Access limitations by ip address. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >There are 5 messages totalling 160 lines in this issue. > >Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:36:38 -0700 >From: Eric Klein >Subject: Re: Access limitations by ip address. > >---John Nielson wrote... > >>Is it possible with aolserver to allow access to more than one group >>of ip addresses? >> >>Let's say for example I wanted access to some pages allowed only by >>these two nets: >> >>128.146.33.** >>128.146.20.** >> >>I would think you would just specify both address in the access >>permissions menu with a /24 following them but it only allows >>one of the addresses when I list both. Is it possible to have >>2 addresses listed? > >Yep, it's quite possible. The only thing I think you were missing was a comma. >Try this: 128.146.33.2/24, 128.146.20.2/24 > >The reason I used the .2 is as a filler. The *, ?, and [] are for use with >actual host names, >and the /24 or /(whatever) is just for ip. > ...I think you want to use .0, as in 128.146.33.0/24 I know a router would be awfully confused by a .2/24 .0 is the network number. James Smallacombe Bucks County, PA Internet Access james@pil.net http://www.pil.net PlantageNet Internet Ltd. http://www.plantagenet.com "I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares" 3 Henry VI, I,i ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:32:18 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Nielsen Subject: security with server side includes In-Reply-To: <199610040403.AAA05230@services.web.aol.com> from "Automatic digest processor" at Oct 4, 96 00:03:04 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I want to limit any url beginning with ~ (i.e. things in people's home directories) from having exec server side includes available. How does one use the wildcards to limit that? I assume they work similar to the way they do in standard regular expressions, but I haven't been able to get it to work for things beginning with ~. Does anyone have any clues? Also, the server sides includes don't appear to be recursive as mentioned in the docs (i.e. I can't have include a file that includes another file and have the 2nd file included). Has anyone got this to work? john ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:23:08 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Nielsen Subject: server includes in tcl scripts In-Reply-To: <199610050403.AAA05398@services.web.aol.com> from "Automatic digest processor" at Oct 5, 96 00:03:16 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The server doesn't appear to handle server-side includes in tcl or cgi scripts. Does something special have to be done to get that to work? john ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:36:51 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: Access limitations by ip address ---James Smallacombe wrote... >>Yep, it's quite possible. The only thing I think you were missing was a comma. >>Try this: 128.146.33.2/24, 128.146.20.2/24 >> >>The reason I used the .2 is as a filler. The *, ?, and [] are for use with >>actual host names, >>and the /24 or /(whatever) is just for ip. >> >...I think you want to use .0, as in 128.146.33.0/24 I know a router would >be awfully confused by a .2/24 .0 is the network number. Normally you would be right, but in this case the last chunk (i.e .2/24) is only seen by the AOLserver internally, and so if you use the / operator to tell the server how many significant bits to use, the last number becomes irrelevant, and it doesn't matter what you use. Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 23:06:50 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: "Peter M. Jansson" Subject: Mime types Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" When configuring mime types in a virtual server, do I have to enter all of the defaults, or can I just add the new ones I need? Pete. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:21:24 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Stewart Subject: Linux install probs? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii xxxxxxxxx TO THE MODERATOR: This message was (apparently) rejected once. If this is an inappropriate post, can you *please* tell me why? xxxxxxxxx Hi all... when attempting to run nsbootstrap to install AOLSERVER on my Linux (2.0.6) box, i get this (rather useless) error (everything seems to work fine when I install it on Solaris): [11/Oct/1996:16:17:34 -0500][15853] Notice: AOLserver/2.1 build 1 starting. [11/Oct/1996:16:17:34 -0500][15853] Fatal: Startup failed initializing: fd utilities [11/Oct/1996:16:17:34 -0500][15852] Warning: Process 15853 killed with signal 9 Anyone know what fd utilities error means? Nothing in the docs that I could find... thanks! johnS ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 03:40:05 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Jim Wilcoxson Organization: Merit Software, Inc. Subject: TCL Cookie Cutter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It would be really cool if you could say: set cookies [ns_conn cookies $conn] to have cookies handled like form vars. Since you can't (yet), I wrote a TCL function to do it and thought I'd post it in case others are interested. # TCL function to return all cookies as a set of name/value pairs # Returns a null string if no Cookies: header is found # Returns an empty set if Cookies: header is present w/o name/value pairs (?) proc qrcookies {conn} { set cstring [ns_set get [ns_conn headers $conn] Cookie] if [string match $cstring ""] { return "" } set cset [ns_set create cookies] while {[regexp -indices {[ ;]*([^ ;]+)=([^ ;]+)} $cstring pair name value]} { ns_set put $cset [string range $cstring [lindex $name 0] [lindex $name 1]] \ [string range $cstring [lindex $value 0] [lindex $value 1]] set cstring [string range $cstring [expr {[lindex $pair 1] + 1}] end] } return $cset } Here's a test program: set cset [qrcookies $conn] set n [ns_set size $cset] set s "Cookies set: $n
" for {set i 0} {$i < $n} {incr i} { append s "Index $i: name=\"[ns_set key $cset $i]\", value=\"[ns_set value $cset $i]\"
" } ns_return $conn 200 text/html $s Have fun! Jim ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 12:27:52 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: Linux install probs? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:21 PM 10/11/96 -0500, you wrote: >xxxxxxxxx > >TO THE MODERATOR: >This message was (apparently) rejected once. If this is an inappropriate post, >can you *please* tell me why? This post is certainly appropriate for the list. I don't believe I received the post you mentioned; the listserv probably rejected it automatically for some reason. If you email me directly, I'll investigate further. Sorry for the inconvenience, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Webmaster, PrimeHost Moderator, HOSTING and AOLSERVER mailing lists For inquiries about Web Hosting, send email to ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 21:24:49 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Richard D & Pamela Wyncoop Subject: Re: AOLSERVER Digest - 10 Oct 1996 to 11 Oct 1996 How accurate is the online information at PrimeHost about our web sites? My site counter gives us different numbers then your site. Thank you SITE PROS http://www.sitepros.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:43:48 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: gnat Subject: redirecting to a default page. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The 2.0 server used to redirect you to your default page instead of just returning its contents, but the 2.1 server does not. Now on the whole I like this, but I have run into an application where I still need it to do the redirection to the default page. Is there someway to turn this back on for specific virtual servers? Thanks, Dave David Whittle Internet Systems Developer Digital City, Inc. (P) (703) 918-2465 (F) (703) 917-1207 (E) gnat@digitalcity.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:22:25 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Ivan Auger Subject: CGI - date problem... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a perl CGI script that generates html. It basically runs Sun's calendar manager lookup program (dtcm_lookup) and beautifies it. When running the apache server, the times in it are displayed correctly - however when I use the aolserver, the times are off by 4 hours. The correct output has:
  • Wednesday October 16, 1996:
    • 8:00am- 9:00am DaveR OUT(vacation)
    • 3:30pm- 4:30pm Sheila LV (personal)
  • Thursday October 17, 1996:
    • 7:30am- 3:30pm Sue OUT (vacation)
    • 8:00am- 9:00am DaveR OUT(vacation)
    However, when running the same script under AOLserver 2.1, I get:
  • Wednesday October 16, 1996:
    • 12:00am- 1:00pm DaveR OUT(vacation)
    • 7:30pm- 8:30pm Sheila LV (personal)
  • Thursday October 17, 1996:
    • 11:30am- 7:30pm Sue OUT (vacation)
    • 12:00am- 1:00pm DaveR OUT(vacation)
    Does anybody know how to change this behavior ? -- Ivan E. Auger ivan.auger@wadsworth.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:29:30 PDT Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Tom Byrnes Subject: ODBC in Aolserver 2.1 Comments: To: rawlings@PRIMEHOST.COM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We finally got Aolserver 2.1 installed. It took completely reinstalling Windows NT, applying service pack 5, and installing AOLserver 2.1. Of course, ssl won't work until we get the new dll (it's on its way via snail mail). All of our simultaneity and CGI problems have disappeared but now our CGI programs can't access the ODBC connection. We checked that it worked in Access and it does, but our CGI can't see the DSN. Any ideas? ************************************************************** / Tomas L. Byrnes, Applications Engineer / E-mail: tomb@adnc.net / Date: 10/16/96 Time: 14:29:30 / WANS/LANS, Connecting the World, Private/Public Networks, / ISPs, Data/LAN/Voice, Routing ************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:18:50 +0000 Reply-To: m1234@nettrade.com.au Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Marketing Department Organization: NetTrade Pty Ltd Subject: AOL SERVER SERVICE UNDER NT USING RAS, AUTOMATIC LAUNCH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good Morning Everyone, Is anyone out there, using AOL Server under Windows NT and RAS? When the dial-up connection is lost, RAS will dial in automatically, but AOL Server needs to be STOPPED AND STARTED BY HAND to get back on line. If you have found a way to automate this process, please let me know! Thank you. Best regards, Michael Lohmann NetTrade Australia ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:47:38 +0100 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Howard Jones Subject: Re: ODBC in Aolserver 2.1 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Tom Byrnes wrote: > We finally got Aolserver 2.1 installed. It took completely reinstalling > Windows NT, applying service pack 5, and installing AOLserver 2.1. Of course, > ssl won't work until we get the new dll (it's on its way via snail mail). All > of our simultaneity and CGI problems have disappeared but now our CGI programs > can't access the ODBC connection. We checked that it worked in Access and it > does, but our CGI can't see the DSN. > > Any ideas? You need to make sure that the ODBC Source is available to the user that the AOLServer process runs as. ODBC sources are per-user, not system wide things. The neatest way so far that I have found to do this is using a bit of the install program from WebDBC by Nomad, which does this automatically. The only other way I know is by cutting & pasting bits of registry. Does anyone have a nicer way? It's a bit of a pain either of the above. 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: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 17:32:30 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Dave Zais Subject: Ns_SignalNaviServer function call MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable While trying to compile with Visual C++4.0 on WindowsNT, I am getting = the following error message in regards to a call to the = Ns_SignalNaviServer function, 'Ns_SignalNaviServer ' : undeclared = identifier. The same function call from the same code on Unix works = fine. In searching for the definition of this function, I found on Unix = it was defined in the include/nsfuncs.h file. On NT however, the = c:\AOLserver\include\nsfuncs.h file is empty. I don't know if this is = supposed to be empty and this function is defined somewhere else or if = this may have been an installation error. I also noticed from the = AOLServer C API function reference documentation, there is a function = Ns_SignalServer. Is this the same function that has been renamed and if = so can anyone tell me where it is defined? Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, David Zais dzais@pfn.com=09 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:40:51 EDT Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Christian Gross <70324.1777@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Re: AOL SERVER SERVICE UNDER NT USING RAS, AUTOMATIC LAUNCH >Good Morning Everyone, >Is anyone out there, using AOL Server under Windows NT and RAS? >When the dial-up connection is lost, RAS will dial in automatically, but >AOL Server needs to be STOPPED AND STARTED BY HAND to get back on line. >If you have found a way to automate this process, please let me know! No offence, but if you are connected to the line for a large amount of time, why not buy a leased line??? Christian Gross ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:16:35 PDT Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Tom Byrnes Subject: Fw: Failing ODBC connection Comments: To: rawlings@PRIMEHOST.COM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII More info: In order to eliminate the gethostbyname call, we explicitly entered the IP address and socket in the address field in the ODBC connection. (Tried it without explicit socket as well) we then get this error. SQLAllocEnv() - OK SQLAllocConnect() - OK SQLSetConnectOption() - OK SQLConnect() Failed, rc = -1 DisplayODBCErrors rc = 0 State = 01000 Native Code = 0.000000 Error Message: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBMSSOCN]ConnectionOpen (socket()). rc = 0 State = 08001 Native Code = 0.000000 Error Message: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBMSSOCN]General network error. Check your network documen SQLFreeConnect() SQLFreeEnv() --- On Thu, 17 Oct 96 13:52:53 PDT Tom Byrnes wrote: > I set up the AOLserver to run as administrator to eliminate the possibility of > this being a rights issue. It still doesn't work. It works with Named Pipes as > the connection protocol. If Windows Sockets is used it works from a DOS > application but not from a C application run in CGI. > > > A test ODBC connection returns the following error: > > SQLConnect() Failed, rc = -1 > > DisplayODBCErrors > rc = 0 > State = 01000 > Native Code = 0.000000 > Error Message: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBMSSOCN]ConnectionOpen > (gethostbyname()()). > > rc = 0 > State = 08001 > Native Code = 0.000000 > Error Message: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBMSSOCN]General network > error. Check your network documen > > SQLFreeConnect() > SQLFreeEnv() > > From the SAME SERVER, running the same query from a CMD prompt in the > server1\pages\cgi_local subdirectory. We get the following: > > > ODBC Access Test Program > > SQLAllocEnv - OK > SQLAllocConnect - OK > SQLConnect - OK > SQLAllocStmt - OK > SQLPrepare - OK > SQLBindParameter - OK > Executing query 'SELECT account_number,check_amount FROM loan_contract' > > Connected and running > Fetch rc = 0 > > Account Number : 1234567 Check Amount : $74975.23 > Account Number : 2586549 Check Amount : $45000.00 > Account Number : 3579512 Check Amount : $50000.00 > Account Number : 4256983 Check Amount : $75000.00 > Account Number : 6542586 Check Amount : $24000.00 > Account Number : 6589543 Check Amount : $11526.23 > > > All Done! > > C:\AOLserver21\servers\server1\pages\cgi-local> > > There is one reference in the past 3 months to the gethostbyname error using > windows sockets and that was a query that wasn't replied to. > > This is what it should return: > > SQLAllocEnv() - OK > SQLAllocConnect() - OK > SQLSetConnectOption() - OK > SQLConnect() - OK > SQLAllocStmt() - OK > SQLPrepare() - OK > Executing query 'SELECT account_number,check_amount FROM loan_contract' > SQLExecute() - OK > > SQLFetch() - OK > Account Number: 1234567 Check Amount: $74975.23 > SQLFetch() - OK > Account Number: 2586549 Check Amount: $45000.00 > SQLFetch() - OK > Account Number: 3579512 Check Amount: $50000.00 > SQLFetch() - OK > Account Number: 4256983 Check Amount: $75000.00 > SQLFetch() - OK > Account Number: 6542586 Check Amount: $24000.00 > SQLFetch() - OK > Account Number: 6589543 Check Amount: $11526.23 > > SQLFreeStmt() > SQLDisconnect() > SQLFreeConnect() > SQLFreeEnv() > > From AOLserver 2.1 from a system IN the domain, using Named Pipes. For > security reasons we want to keep the production server OUT of the domain, > which means we can't use named pipes. > > Is there a problem with CGI and Winsock calls? If so, how do I work around it, > and when will it be fixed. > > ************************************************************** > / Tomas L. Byrnes, Applications Engineer > / E-mail: tomb@adnc.net > / Date: 10/17/96 Time: 13:52:53 > / WANS/LANS, Connecting the World, Private/Public Networks, > / ISPs, Data/LAN/Voice, Routing > ************************************************************** > ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ************************************************************** / Tomas L. Byrnes, Applications Engineer / E-mail: tomb@adnc.net / Date: 10/17/96 Time: 14:16:36 / WANS/LANS, Connecting the World, Private/Public Networks, / ISPs, Data/LAN/Voice, Routing ************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:52:53 PDT Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Tom Byrnes Subject: Failing ODBC connection Comments: cc: erich@peoplefirst.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I set up the AOLserver to run as administrator to eliminate the possibility of this being a rights issue. It still doesn't work. It works with Named Pipes as the connection protocol. If Windows Sockets is used it works from a DOS application but not from a C application run in CGI. A test ODBC connection returns the following error: SQLConnect() Failed, rc = -1 DisplayODBCErrors rc = 0 State = 01000 Native Code = 0.000000 Error Message: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBMSSOCN]ConnectionOpen (gethostbyname()()). rc = 0 State = 08001 Native Code = 0.000000 Error Message: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBMSSOCN]General network error. Check your network documen SQLFreeConnect() SQLFreeEnv() From the SAME SERVER, running the same query from a CMD prompt in the server1\pages\cgi_local subdirectory. We get the following: ODBC Access Test Program SQLAllocEnv - OK SQLAllocConnect - OK SQLConnect - OK SQLAllocStmt - OK SQLPrepare - OK SQLBindParameter - OK Executing query 'SELECT account_number,check_amount FROM loan_contract' Connected and running Fetch rc = 0 Account Number : 1234567 Check Amount : $74975.23 Account Number : 2586549 Check Amount : $45000.00 Account Number : 3579512 Check Amount : $50000.00 Account Number : 4256983 Check Amount : $75000.00 Account Number : 6542586 Check Amount : $24000.00 Account Number : 6589543 Check Amount : $11526.23 All Done! C:\AOLserver21\servers\server1\pages\cgi-local> There is one reference in the past 3 months to the gethostbyname error using windows sockets and that was a query that wasn't replied to. This is what it should return: SQLAllocEnv() - OK SQLAllocConnect() - OK SQLSetConnectOption() - OK SQLConnect() - OK SQLAllocStmt() - OK SQLPrepare() - OK Executing query 'SELECT account_number,check_amount FROM loan_contract' SQLExecute() - OK SQLFetch() - OK Account Number: 1234567 Check Amount: $74975.23 SQLFetch() - OK Account Number: 2586549 Check Amount: $45000.00 SQLFetch() - OK Account Number: 3579512 Check Amount: $50000.00 SQLFetch() - OK Account Number: 4256983 Check Amount: $75000.00 SQLFetch() - OK Account Number: 6542586 Check Amount: $24000.00 SQLFetch() - OK Account Number: 6589543 Check Amount: $11526.23 SQLFreeStmt() SQLDisconnect() SQLFreeConnect() SQLFreeEnv() From AOLserver 2.1 from a system IN the domain, using Named Pipes. For security reasons we want to keep the production server OUT of the domain, which means we can't use named pipes. Is there a problem with CGI and Winsock calls? If so, how do I work around it, and when will it be fixed. ************************************************************** / Tomas L. Byrnes, Applications Engineer / E-mail: tomb@adnc.net / Date: 10/17/96 Time: 13:52:53 / WANS/LANS, Connecting the World, Private/Public Networks, / ISPs, Data/LAN/Voice, Routing ************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 15:50:33 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: "George Fike Jr." Subject: mailfrom.tcl (*.row) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi All, We've been using the *.eml at our website (www.outer-banks.nc.us) for a number of months now without a hitch. Now today I tried to implement the *.row feature, but as easy as it looks like it should be to get going, I had no luck. I keep getting the error; >The HTTP request was in an invalid format or contained invalid data. Reason: > > No values specified > >For further assistance, contact the server administrator. when I submit the form. The e-mail DOES get through, but no data gets dumped into the db. I've gone over it a couple of times now and can't seem to find the problem. The column names in my table(called "rest_reviews") are 1)reviewer 2)email 3)reviewee 4)review 5)category 6)permission 7)submit_date I started w/ http://www.outer-banks.nc.us/eats/review_submission.htm and when that didn't work I stripped it down to http://www.outer-banks.nc.us/eats/review_submission_2.htm ,but it still didn't work. If anyone has a *.html form that submits to a *.row that works .. I loved to take a peak at your code to see what silly mistake I am making. notes: .html form is at ../eats/reviewer_submission.htm .row form is at ../eats/reviewer_submission.row and the name of the page to redirect to is review_return.htm script used is mailfrom.tcl Thank you for your time and effort, Jordie Fike www.outer-banks.nc.us ***************************************************************** * 100% Kona Coffee should be a control substance, * * get your fix from Fike Farms! * * ph808.328.2265 fax328.2420 * ***************************************************************** Jordie Fike www.outer-banks.nc.us ***************************************************************** * 100% Kona Coffee should be a control substance, * * get your fix from Fike Farms! * * ph808.328.2265 fax328.2420 * ***************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:19:32 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: Recursion in shtml ---John Nielsen wrote... >I am trying to include a file that includes another file with server parsed >html. However, AOLSERVER ignores the request for the 2nd file to be included. >Is anyone able to get this to work? If so do you have to do anything special? > >It looks like the capability is not implemented at least it doesn't work on Solaris 2.5.1. > >john For the time being at least, AOLserver doesn't support recursive server parsed html. Unfortunately for those who wanted to have the output of their CGI or tcl scripts parsed by the server, that is also not supported currently. Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:31:41 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: Linux install problems. ---John Stewart wrote... >Hi all... when attempting to run nsbootstrap to install AOLSERVER on my Linux >(2.0.6) box, i get this (rather useless) error (everything seems to work fine >when I install it on Solaris): > >[11/Oct/1996:16:17:34 -0500][15853] Notice: AOLserver/2.1 build 1 starting. >[11/Oct/1996:16:17:34 -0500][15853] Fatal: Startup failed initializing: fd >utilities >[11/Oct/1996:16:17:34 -0500][15852] Warning: Process 15853 killed with signal 9 > >Anyone know what fd utilities error means? Nothing in the docs that I could >find... > >thanks! > >johnS Well, as far as I can tell, this is due to the operating system missing (or having a problem with) the fd utilities. I'm afraid that I'm not of much use as far as linux help goes, however both comp.os.linux, and comp.os.linux.questions are excelent sources of information. Best of luck Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:16:23 -0700 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Eric Klein Subject: Re: Illustra SGI <-> Linux problems ---Stefan Arentz wrote... >We're trying to use the following setup: > > IRIX 5.3 box with Illustra > Linux 2.0.21 box with AOLServer 2.1 build 1 > >The problem is that I can't get the database connection to work. When nsd >starts I see the following message: > >Error: Ns_DbDriverInit(extill): ProxyDaemonPath or ProxyHost must be > specified in config file > >But the documentation contains nothing about the ProxyDaemonPath or ProxyHost >options. What is the correct syntax of those options and where in the config >should I put them? > >Thanx in advance, > > -- Stefan Arentz > >PS. It looks like nsql is missing from the Linux distribution. I had to >install the IRIX 5.3 dist. of AOLServer on the database server... Will >this be changed in the future? Well, in answer to your first problem, that was a bad response from the server, and has now been fixed. The message should have been: Ns_DbDriverInit(extill): LocalDaemon or Remotehost must be specified in config file So, since you are trying to connect to another machine for the DB, you should check to see if Remotehost is configured for extill As far as nsql of nsill for Linux, these are not ever needed since there is no port of illustra to Linux. Eric Klein eric@sb.aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:14:20 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Jim Wilcoxson Organization: Merit Software, Inc. Subject: System-wide ODBC sources Comments: To: Marketing Department , Howard Jones MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm not using GNN on NT anymore, but I did have it set up with an Access database. If you configure the ODBC source as a "System DSN" with the Microsoft ODBC tools, then the data source will be available to all users AND to processes like GNN that run as a service. -Jim ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:39:59 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: John Nielsen Subject: diff bet restarting server and script In-Reply-To: <199610190401.AAA15739@services.web.aol.com> from "Automatic digest processor" at Oct 19, 96 00:01:27 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a tcl script that acts differently if I restart the server compared to when I initialize the script directly. It is in the main private directory. The script is run at a url not releated to any aolserver url. I also know that the server is seeing the script when it restarts because when I change the url it is registered to, the new url then becomes active. And, since the registration and the script are in the same file, it is seeing the file. What is the difference between what the server does when it restarts to re-initialize scripts and re-initializing the script directly. john ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:45:04 -0500 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Rodney Barnett Subject: Re[2]: Illustra SGI <-> Linux problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric Klein wrote: >---Stefan Arentz wrote... [snip] >>PS. It looks like nsql is missing from the Linux distribution. I had to >>install the IRIX 5.3 dist. of AOLServer on the database server... Will >>this be changed in the future? [snip] >As far as nsql of nsill for Linux, these are not ever needed since >there is no port of illustra to Linux. I'm new to all of this so I may not know many things that most everyone else here knows, but I'm in the same (or possibly worse) situation as Stefan. I'm trying to use AOLServer under Linux and Illustra under NT 3.51. The installation instruactions at http://www.aolserver.com/server/docs/2.1/install/ill6.htm explicitly say "Locate nsql in the bin subdirectory of the AOLserver directory (not the Illustra directory)". When I couldn't find nsql there, I looked around and found msql in the illustra directory. However, when I tried to use that instead of nsql... D:\illustra\bin>msql -U miadmin -P xxxx template1 XVL011:license manager: SERVER FEATURE MI_LIB_USAGE: Can't login to server can't login to template1 on server default, host localhost Not currently connected to a database Perhaps I have something misconfigured, but I can't figure out what. Now, I remembered reading that the version of illustra available with AOLServer is configured to only accept connections from AOLServer and that nsql uses the same key as AOLServer. So, I jumped to the conclusion that the license manager rejects the connection from msql because it's not using that key. After all, if I could use msql, I wouldn't need to have the AOLServer package to use the database for anything I wanted, right? However, jumping to conclusions is usually a bad thing, so, I'm probably wrong here. In that case, can someone help with my illustra problem? I'd also propose that the documentation be modified to describe how to configure things if you don't have nsql. Thnaks. Rodney rbarnett@teltech.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:13:00 -0600 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Ron Patterson Subject: Re: Aolserver 2.1 Comments: To: Guy Detroz Hello Guy, Unfortunately, no I haven't heard anything from them. I have assumed that it may be Solaris 2.4 since they are specifying that this is a release for 2.5 and maybe something is required there. We haven't had a change to go to 2.5.1 yet so I am still running AOLserver 2.033 for now. Hope you have better luck, Ron >Message-Id: <199610211609.SAA18393@winch.cediti.be> >To: Ron.Patterson@mci.com >Subject: Aolserver 2.1 >Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:09:41 +0200 >From: Guy Detroz > >>We have the same problem with AOLserver 2.1. The server runs for about >>a half hour then bombs with the error: >> >>[18/Sep/1996:14:21:18 -0600][21090] Warning: Process 21091 killed with >>signal 13 > > >Hello, > >I have the same problem with AOLserver 2.1 and Solaris 2.4. > >Did you receive any answer to your question ? if so, I'm really interested in. > >Thanks in advance for your help. > >Guy Detroz > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:25:11 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: mailfrom.tcl (*.row) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:50 PM 10/17/96 -0400, you wrote: >Hi All, > We've been using the *.eml at our website (www.outer-banks.nc.us) >for a number of months now without a hitch. Now today I tried to implement >the *.row feature, but as easy as it looks like it should be to get going, I >had no luck. I keep getting the error; [...] >when I submit the form. The e-mail DOES get through, but no data gets dumped >into the db. I've gone over it a couple of times now and can't seem to find >the problem. > >The column names in my table(called "rest_reviews") are > >1)reviewer This is most likely your problem. The database calls in the server expect the field names to be in this format: ColValue.column_name For your example above, this would be NAME="ColValue.reviewer" . If you go to the auto-generated entry form for the table, you'll find that the data fields all have that format; it is case-sensitive. Sorry for the trouble -- I'll take another look at the documentation for the mailform.tcl script! Regards, Jeff Rawlings -- rawlings@primehost.com -- http://www.primehost.com/ Internet Marketing Manager, America Online PrimeHost *Web hosting with databases, scripting, and T3 connectivity. *Storefront Solution is here! Easy setup, secure purchases. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:25:12 -0400 Reply-To: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost Sender: Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost From: Jeff Rawlings Subject: Re: mailfrom.tcl (*.row) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" [Here's another response for you, from doman@doitsports.com. I've removed a bit of the quoted material... --Moderator] ----------------- It took us a long time to get the script to work as well, but this does it. As well, the funciton *insertandmailop* does not return the file specified by "returnfile", because of an error in the code for the *insertrow* function. Anyway, this works:

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    Date:         Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:31:37 -0700
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Infowave Customer Support 
    Subject:      Re: Aolserver 2.1
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    
    Hi,
    We called technical support finally, hoping to get an answer.  The answer we
    got was that there were some changes in Version 2.1 that requires
    modification in Tcl programs.  And they've asked us to read the
    documentation to see what we need to change in our programs.
    
    That's about what we can share for now because we haven't read the
    documentation yet.  If we find anything and have it run successfully, we
    will share with everyone.
    
    Regards,
    Wendy Liu
    InfoWave Communications
    
    >Hello Guy,
    >
    >Unfortunately, no I haven't heard anything from them. I have assumed
    >that it may be Solaris 2.4 since they are specifying that this is a
    >release for 2.5 and maybe something is required there. We haven't had
    >a change to go to 2.5.1 yet so I am still running AOLserver 2.033 for
    >now.
    >
    >Hope you have better luck,
    >Ron
    >
    >>Message-Id: <199610211609.SAA18393@winch.cediti.be>
    >>To: Ron.Patterson@mci.com
    >>Subject: Aolserver 2.1
    >>Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:09:41 +0200
    >>From: Guy Detroz 
    >>
    >>>We have the same problem with AOLserver 2.1. The server runs for about
    >>>a half hour then bombs with the error:
    >>>
    >>>[18/Sep/1996:14:21:18 -0600][21090] Warning: Process 21091 killed with
    >>>signal 13
    >>
    >>
    >>Hello,
    >>
    >>I have the same problem with AOLserver 2.1 and Solaris 2.4.
    >>
    >>Did you receive any answer to your question ? if so, I'm really interested in.
    >>
    >>Thanks in advance for your help.
    >>
    >>Guy Detroz
    >>
    >>
    >
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:52:29 -0400
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Tom Byrnes 
    Subject:      Re: System-wide ODBC sources
    Comments: To: Jim Wilcoxson 
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    
    That's what we're doing. The thing is, it works for a straight C app run
    as any user, it works when the machine is part of the domain (using named
    pipes). It is only when the process is run via CGI from the AOLserver
    using Windows Sockets instead of named pipes to access the ODBC connector
    that it fails. This looks like a bug in the nssock.dll. It's come up
    before but the boys and girls in Santa Barabara have been silent about
    it.
    
    Worst case we'll have to make the server part of the domain, but that
    brings with it its own headaches, mostly ones of security.
    
    --- On Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:14:20 -0400  Jim Wilcoxson 
    wrote:
    > I'm not using GNN on NT anymore, but I did have it set up with an
    Access
    > database.  If you configure the ODBC source as a "System DSN" with the
    > Microsoft ODBC tools, then the data source will be available to all
    > users AND to processes like GNN that run as a service.  -Jim
    >
    
    ---------------End of Original Message-----------------
    
    **************************************************************
    /         Tomas L. Byrnes, Applications Engineer
    /               E-mail: tomb@adnc.net
    /             Date: 10/21/96  Time: 13:22:59
    /   WANS/LANS, Connecting the World, Private/Public Networks,
    /             ISPs, Data/LAN/Voice, Routing
    **************************************************************
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:16:00 -0500
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Vojislav Lalich-Petrich 
    Subject:      Re: AOLSERVER Digest - 18 Oct 1996 to 21 Oct 1996
    Comments: cc: jnielsen@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    
    Hello John,
    
    The problem is most likely that you have two Tcl functions with the same
    name defined in two places (i.e. different Tcl scripts).
    What happens when you start the server is that all the Tcl files are
    sourced and the function from the last file with that name will be "the"
    active one. When you then source the file with the right function that will
    take over and it will work.
    
    The solution is obviously to have the two functions with the different
    names - that should fix it.
    
    Best regards,
    Voja.
    
    ------------------------------
    
    Date:    Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:39:59 -0400
    From:    John Nielsen 
    Subject: diff bet restarting server and script
    
    I have a tcl script that acts differently if I restart the server compared to
    when I initialize the script directly. It is in the main private directory.
    The script is run at a url not releated to any aolserver url. I also know that
    the server is seeing the script when it restarts because when I change the url
    it is registered to, the new url then becomes active. And, since
    the registration and the script are in the same file, it is seeing the file.
    
    What is the difference between what the server does when it restarts
    to re-initialize scripts and re-initializing the script directly.
    
    john
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:53:23 +0100
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Valter Quenda 
    Subject:      Illustra unavailable for download
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    Hi everybody
    
    Illustra is unavailable for download since 16 October. I wish this is because of
    a new release incoming, but I'm afraid it's due to problems with redistribution,
    licensing and so on...
    Illustra has become a part of Informix some weeks ago; will they continue to
    distribute free their DBMS?
    Thanks to everyone who will answer this question
    
    Valter Quenda (v.quenda@crf.it)
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    Date:         Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:04:11 +0100
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    From:         Valter Quenda 
    Subject:      AOLServer hanging
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    Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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    I have AOLserver running on an NT Intel computer;I realize that server hangs, I restart it and, when I
    open the server.log to understand what happened, I find lines like these ones:
    
    [22/Oct/1996:11:28:57 +0100][77.85][-Scheduler-] Warning: crfserver:  thread max (50) reached with 5
    connections waiting.
    ....
    omitted, one new line was written every minute until I restarted the server
    ....
    [22/Oct/1996:12:17:57 +0100][77.85][-Scheduler-] Warning: crfserver:  thread max (50) reached with 43
    connections waiting.
    
    Why the server hangs in this situation? Is it sufficient to increase the value of MaxThreads variable?
    My server is not an high-trafic server, it seems impossible that 50 connections arrived
    simultaneously!
    
    Thanks to in advance for hints
    
    Valter Quenda (v.quenda@crf.it)
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:31:52 +1000
    Reply-To:     b.hart@cqu.edu.au
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Comments:     Authenticated sender is 
    From:         Bruce Hart 
    Organization: Central Queensland University
    Subject:      AOLServer and CGI o NT
    
    We have Webspirs V3b5 for NT3.51 + sp4  running on Netscape Enterprise server
    with no problems.
    
    We want to change it over to AOLServer so that we can do some
    Illustra stuff on the same machine.
    
    When we try to run Webspirs (/cgi-bin/webspirs.cmd) under AOLServer it
    says 'gateway error: can't make form pipe' ie the spawned process
    can,t communicate with the parent process.
    
    The executables work OK in a command prompt
    
    cgi settings are GET  /cgi-bin    c:\aolserver\servers\cgi-bin
                     POST /cgi-bin    c:\aolserevr\servers\cgi-bin
    
    It's like the program can't run (or at least communicate when run) as
    a cgi but is OK with Netscape.
    
    System permissions are OK
    
    Have we missed something in the cgi setup ?
    
    Any ideas ?
    
    TIA
    ------------------------------------------------------
    Bruce Hart   (b.hart@cqu.edu.au)
    Library Network Manager
    Central Queensland University
    Rockhampton, 4702 AUSTRALIA
    Phone (+)61 79 309146
    Fax   (+)61 79 309972
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:48:31 +0100
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Richard den Adel 
    Organization: Valkieser Multi Media
    Subject:      Problem getting a Postgres95 Oid from a Ns_Set
    Comments: cc: postgres95@postgres95.vnet.net
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    
    Hi,
    
    I'm writing a c-shared-module to the aolserver version 2.1. This module
    is supposed to get out an image from postgres, and give it back to the
    server. When I use the postgres sql lo function lo_export to a unix
    file, everything works fine. I'll only must use a temporary unix file
    and replace the '' tag with the temporary filename.
    
    It's much easier (and probably faster!) to lo_read the large object into
    a dynamic string and write it to the server using Ns_ConnWrite(..).
    
    The problem is that the result of the 1 row query I've send doesn't
    seems to give a proper large object id (part of a Ns_Set). I can open
    the object (lo_open), I can seek in the object (lo_seek), but I can't
    read it (lo_read returns 0 bytes readed the very first time). My guess
    is that the object id isn't correct, at the moment I just sscanf the
    result of the field (Ns_SetGet), which type is Oid, into an uint32.
    
    I hope being clear about my problem, please forgive me if I'm not.
    
    thanks in advance for some help,
    
    Richard.
    
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    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:41:40 -0400
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Ivan Auger 
    Subject:      CGI - date problem - followup
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
    
    I have done some further debugging and now have an explanation for =
    getting the incorrect output.
    
    The perl script executes a program call dtcm_lookup (under Solaris =
    2.5.1).  This=20
    program does a lookup of a calendar and the output depends on the =
    timezone which=20
    it gets from the "TZ" environment variable =0D(this allows the calendar =
    to work=20
    across timezones).
    
    The TZ environment variable is standard in the apache server, but it is =
    not one=20
    of the standard environment variables under AOLserver 2.1.
    
    Is there a way to set such a variable for the whole server ? My =
    environment is=20
    Solaris 2.5.1.  I don't find this in the Admin server (the screens in =
    the=20
    documentation refer to NT).
    
    For now, the workaround is to=04set the appropriate environment variable =
    in the=20
    perl script.=20
    
    Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
    
    Ivan Auger
    ivan.auger@wadsworth.org
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:59:54 -0400
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Tom Byrnes 
    Subject:      Re: AOLServer and CGI o NT
    Comments: To: Bruce Hart 
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    
    Bruce,
    
    We're having a similar problem. There appears to be a bug in nssock.dll
    that causes CGI to error accessing windows sockets services. No-one from
    AOLserver has commented on it but you are the third organization to
    report such a problem.
    
    Is anyone in Santa Barbara able to tell us the cause and a possible
    work-around?
    
    --- On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:31:52 +1000  Bruce Hart 
    wrote:
    > We have Webspirs V3b5 for NT3.51 + sp4  running on Netscape Enterprise
    server
    > with no problems.
    >
    > We want to change it over to AOLServer so that we can do some
    > Illustra stuff on the same machine.
    >
    > When we try to run Webspirs (/cgi-bin/webspirs.cmd) under AOLServer it
    > says 'gateway error: can't make form pipe' ie the spawned process
    > can,t communicate with the parent process.
    >
    > The executables work OK in a command prompt
    >
    > cgi settings are GET  /cgi-bin    c:\aolserver\servers\cgi-bin
    >                  POST /cgi-bin    c:\aolserevr\servers\cgi-bin
    >
    > It's like the program can't run (or at least communicate when run) as
    > a cgi but is OK with Netscape.
    >
    > System permissions are OK
    >
    > Have we missed something in the cgi setup ?
    >
    > Any ideas ?
    >
    > TIA
    > ------------------------------------------------------
    > Bruce Hart   (b.hart@cqu.edu.au)
    > Library Network Manager
    > Central Queensland University
    > Rockhampton, 4702 AUSTRALIA
    > Phone (+)61 79 309146
    > Fax   (+)61 79 309972
    >
    
    ---------------End of Original Message-----------------
    
    **************************************************************
    /         Tomas L. Byrnes, Applications Engineer
    /               E-mail: tomb@adnc.net
    /             Date: 10/22/96  Time: 18:33:59
    /   WANS/LANS, Connecting the World, Private/Public Networks,
    /             ISPs, Data/LAN/Voice, Routing
    **************************************************************
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:47:13 -0700
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Levent N Atasoy 
    Subject:      Archived documents, where?
    
    I turned archiving on in my AOLserver. It is working fine.
    What I want to know is where all the old versions of the documents are
    kept.  I can't find any info in the online documentation.  Can anyone
    point me to the right location?
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:54:12 -0400
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         James F Smallacombe 
    Subject:      Virtual servers still stopping
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    
    I was hoping the release version of AOLserver 2.1 would fix this, but it
    hasn't.  Under Solaris 2.5 (with the TCP and ifconfig patches), a virtual
    server still stops occasionally.  The old listenthread fix doesn't work
    either.  Oddly, out of 15 virtual servers, I've yet to see more than one
    die at a time, and it's a different one every time.
    
    Has anyone identified this bug?  Is it unique to Solaris?
    
    TIA,
    
    James Smallacombe                      Bucks County, PA Internet Access
    james@pil.net                          http://www.pil.net
    PlantageNet Internet Ltd.              http://www.plantagenet.com
     "I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares"  3 Henry VI, I,i
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:25:18 -0700
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Eric Klein 
    Subject:      Re: CGI - date problem - followup
    Comments: To: Ivan Auger 
    In-Reply-To:  <199610222241.SAA15485@tronador.wadsworth.org>
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    
    ---Ivan Auger wrote...
    > I have done some further debugging and now have an explanation for getting the incorrect output.
    >
    > The perl script executes a program call dtcm_lookup (under Solaris 2.5.1).  This
    > program does a lookup of a calendar and the output depends on the timezone which
    > it gets from the "TZ" environment variable (this allows the calendar to work
    > across timezones).
    >
    > The TZ environment variable is standard in the apache server, but it is not one
    > of the standard environment variables under AOLserver 2.1.
    >
    > Is there a way to set such a variable for the whole server ? My environment is
    > Solaris 2.5.1.  I don't find this in the Admin server (the screens in the
    > documentation refer to NT).
    >
    > For now, the workaround is to set the appropriate environment variable in the
    > perl script.
    >
    > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
    >
    > Ivan Auger
    > ivan.auger@wadsworth.org
    
    Well, there is a way.
    
    In the setup server, go to your virtual server, and open the cgi section.
    
    Under environment, check the existing area (or if none is checked, click
    on the 'Define new environment' link, and then name the environment)
    
    In the evironment page, just set up your variables and values however you
    like. Just click on the update, or add button (whichever is applicable),
    and you should be all set.
    
    Happy hunting.
    
    Eric Klein
    eric@sb.aol.com
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:20:06 -0700
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Levent N Atasoy 
    Subject:      Re: Archived documents, where?
    Comments: To: Eric Klein 
    In-Reply-To:  
    
    Eric, thanks for the response, though I should have been more clear.
    I am able to retrieve the versions.  What I would like to know is the
    physical locations of the archives so that I make sure they do not
    fill the disk.  Also, idoes anyone know how to maintain archives,
    i.e. are there utilities t purge old archives, or what needs to be done?
    
    >>>>> On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:05:41 -0700 (PDT), Eric Klein  said:
    
     EK> ---Levent N Atasoy wrote...
     >> I turned archiving on in my AOLserver. It is working fine.
     >> What I want to know is where all the old versions of the documents are
     >> kept.  I can't find any info in the online documentation.  Can anyone
     >> point me to the right location?
    
     EK> In order to get at archived version of pages, use the tools menu in
     EK> AOLpress.
    
     EK> Goto Tools->Administer Page->Versions  from this dialog box, you will be
     EK> able to retrieve deleted version of a page.
    
     EK> Eric Klein
     EK> eric@sb.aol.com
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:24:09 -0800
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Alex Khassin 
    Subject:      Re: Archived documents, where?
    In-Reply-To:  <199610230447.VAA04035@optimal.mark.macsch.com>
    
    >I turned archiving on in my AOLserver. It is working fine.
    >What I want to know is where all the old versions of the documents are
    >kept.  I can't find any info in the online documentation.  Can anyone
    >point me to the right location?
    >
    
    Archiving along with full text search is done by the Illustra database.
    
    All the pages are automatically saved to the db. in addition to the file
    system when you use AOLPress.  If you don't you need to perform Full-Text
    Synchronization on a regular basis.
    
    
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    Date:         Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:19:47 -0400
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         "Bob S. Lally" 
    Subject:      text file to database
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    
    Hello:
    
    Does anyone know of a way, such as a script,  to take a formatted text file and move the data into an SQL database?
    
    Thank you.
    
    Bob Lally
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:54:29 -0700
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Jeff Gustafson 
    Subject:      Re: Virtual servers still stopping
    Comments: To: James F Smallacombe 
    In-Reply-To:  
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    
    On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, James F Smallacombe wrote:
    
    > I was hoping the release version of AOLserver 2.1 would fix this, but it
    > hasn't.  Under Solaris 2.5 (with the TCP and ifconfig patches), a virtual
    > server still stops occasionally.  The old listenthread fix doesn't work
    > either.  Oddly, out of 15 virtual servers, I've yet to see more than one
    > die at a time, and it's a different one every time.
    >
    > Has anyone identified this bug?  Is it unique to Solaris?
    
            I'm having the same problem.  I tried to pound the server with a
    bunch of requests ((while [ 1 ]; do lynx -dump http://www; done;) &) and
    it didn't stop.  When I put the server live it then stopped after awhile.
    In the meantime I'm running the 2.0 version.  It looks like the Linux 2.1
    AOLServer is now more stable than the Solaris version.  But there is no
    Illustra for Linux :(.  I'm running Solaris 2.4 with the lastest patches
    (as far as I know) on a Sparcstation 20.
            This problem has existed for awhile now and I haven't seen any
    response from the developers.  What's going on?
    
    ---
    Jeffrey Gustafson -- jeffgus@packardbell.com
    Technical Specialist & SysAdmin
    On-Line Services Group
    Packard Bell Electronics, Inc.
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:36:57 -0800
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Alex Khassin 
    Subject:      Re: text file to database
    In-Reply-To:  <01BBC0FE.0338C960@Cust2.Max7.New-York.NY.MS.UU.NET>
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    >Hello:
    >
    >Does anyone know of a way, such as a script,  to take a formatted text
    file and move the data into an SQL database?
    >
    
    Assuming that you are using Illustra you can use the copy or micopy SQL
    statement:
    
    micopy my_table
    from '/files/myfile.txt';
    
    By default, tab is the delimiter character.  To specify delimeters use:
    
    micopy my_table
    from '/files/myfile'
    using delimiters =91,;-#=91;
    
    where , ; - # are the delimiters that will be used.
    
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    =========================================================================
    Date:         Thu, 24 Oct 1996 22:47:43 -0700
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Tom Kee 
    Subject:      Re: Illustra unavailable for download
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    
    Thanks for the heads up, here.  I spent a far bit of time looking for the
    distribution.  I had a bit of trouble upgrading from NT3.51 to NT4.0.  All
    is well, how ever I was not able to use the upgrade path, so I essential
    have a new install.  My original Illustra installation all there, however,
    it's not configured for the new version of NT and the processes are not in
    the Services list.  Did anyone grab a copy of Illustra that I can knab to
    correct the configuration for NT4.0 or has anyone gone through this manually?
    
    -Tom
    
    At 08:53 AM 10/22/96 +0100, you wrote:
    >Hi everybody
    >
    >Illustra is unavailable for download since 16 October. I wish this is
    because of
    >a new release incoming, but I'm afraid it's due to problems with
    redistribution,
    >licensing and so on...
    >Illustra has become a part of Informix some weeks ago; will they continue to
    >distribute free their DBMS?
    >Thanks to everyone who will answer this question
    >
    >Valter Quenda (v.quenda@crf.it)
    >
    >
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:59:04 -0700
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
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    From:         Slava Kritov 
    Organization: Genesys Inc
    Subject:      Re: AOLSERVER Digest - 23 Oct 1996 to 24 Oct 1996
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    
    Hi !
    I have the same kind a problem on Solarisx86 2.5.1
    But I've mananged to fish out some detail and solve ( mine ;) problem.
    The preoblem that I had is when you're switching on the reverse name
    resolution, and for whatever reason your name resolver goes down, so
    does AOLserver. If the reverse resolution is not available, or you have
    named from Vixie (:) when it takes a lot of time to get "no responce"
    server behaves erratically and some threads might just hang ...
    This usually be race conditions with DNS requests.
    
    Well - I resorted to removing reverse lookups from server, and its just
    working fine.
    
    Best
            Slava
    
    >
    > > I was hoping the release version of AOLserver 2.1 would fix this, but it
    > > hasn't.  Under Solaris 2.5 (with the TCP and ifconfig patches), a virtual
    > > server still stops occasionally.  The old listenthread fix doesn't work
    > > either.  Oddly, out of 15 virtual servers, I've yet to see more than one
    > > die at a time, and it's a different one every time.
    > >
    > > Has anyone identified this bug?  Is it unique to Solaris?
    >
    >         I'm having the same problem.  I tried to pound the server with a
    > bunch of requests ((while [ 1 ]; do lynx -dump http://www; done;) &) and
    > it didn't stop.  When I put the server live it then stopped after awhile.
    > In the meantime I'm running the 2.0 version.  It looks like the Linux 2.1
    > AOLServer is now more stable than the Solaris version.  But there is no
    > Illustra for Linux :(.  I'm running Solaris 2.4 with the lastest patches
    > (as far as I know) on a Sparcstation 20.
    >         This problem has existed for awhile now and I haven't seen any
    > response from the developers.  What's going on?
    >
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:13:48 PDT
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    From:         Tom Byrnes 
    Subject:      AOLserver and Sockets Problem
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    
    We put the server into the domain and are now using named pipes to communicate
    with SQL server. Surprise, it works properly.
    
    This is clearly a problem with sockets calls from the CGI environment. The
    apparent culprit would be the nssock.dll, although there may be other code
    that causes a problem for CGI calls making it to the nssock.dll routines.
    
    The mute silence from AOL is not at all comforting.
    
    We are an ISP that also is a network integrator. We had hoped to recommend
    AOLserver (and would have participated in any dealership or resale plans you
    had for the product). Due to the way that this problem has been handled (or
    more precisely, ignored) we will now pursue other options.
    
    Why the silence?
    
    **************************************************************
    /         Tomas L. Byrnes, Applications Engineer
    /               E-mail: tomb@adnc.net
    /             Date: 10/24/96  Time: 18:13:48
    /   WANS/LANS, Connecting the World, Private/Public Networks,
    /             ISPs, Data/LAN/Voice, Routing
    **************************************************************
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:46:39 -0500
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    From:         Vojislav Lalich-Petrich 
    Subject:      tcl version
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    
    Hi,
    
    It seems that the tcl implementation in the AOLServer is version 7.4.
    Is that true and if so are there any plans to upgrade to 7.5 any time soon?
    
    Thanks,
    Voja.
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:46:40 -0500
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    From:         Vojislav Lalich-Petrich 
    Subject:      tcl API to AOLServer
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    
    Is there a way to use a tcl API to the AOLServer without executing the
    script under the server?
    In other words, I have a stand-alone tcl interpreter (from SUN) and would
    like to use it to execute my scripts but will need to talk to the AOLServer
    and its API.
    
    Thanks,
    Voja .
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Sun, 27 Oct 1996 19:52:27 -0500
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    From:         Kirk Zurell 
    Subject:      ns_db tcl instruction invalid, what causes?
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    
    I've installed AOLserver 2.1 and illustra on NT Server 3.51, SP5
    
    After installing nsdb.dll in add modules, Database Services appears and
    points to /NS/Db/Admin on the virtual server. Accessing it, however,
    returns an error and the log shows "ns_db pools" to be an invalid
    instruction. I figure that ns_db is linked in from nsdb.dll. Any ideas?
    
    Also, I can't connect to template1 using any of the illustra utilities,
    usually with a warning from the ELM. Usage does show that there are
    available licenses. Maybe it's a TCP/IP problem?
    
    Anyone who has pushed through these problems before, your help would be
    appreciated. Haven't seen any FAQs, so maybe this is infrequent...
    
    Kirk Zurell
    Computer Consultant
    University of Windsor
    Windsor, Ontario, Canada
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:49:35 +0100
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    From:         Andre April 
    Subject:      SSL key certification
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
    
    I installed aolserver-2.1 and want to use SSL fo internal purposes. How c=
    an I =
    
    certify the certificate request myself? I got the SSLeay package, but it =
    does =
    
    not recognize the certificate request. HELP...
    
    Andr=E9.
    
    P.S. Could anyone explain me the formats used by aolserver for its key an=
    d =
    
    certificate ?
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Sun, 27 Oct 1996 02:42:02 -0500
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    From:         "Peter M. Jansson" 
    Subject:      CGI environment is lying
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    
    I'm trying to get a CGI script to process a file upload on a Primehost
    commercial site, and it's not working as it did when I used the same
    script on an NT machine running GNNServer 2.031.  The Perl-based CGI
    doesn't seem to recognize the content type, and when I asked the script to
    dump out the environment variables, there was no "CONTENT_TYPE" variable
    as promised in the CGI Developer's Guide.  Instead, there were these two
    variables:
    
    HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE=application/x-form-url-encoded
    
    I took the script and moved it to a machine running Netscape Commerce
    1.12, and the same dump of environment variables showed the following
    line:
    
    CONTENT_TYPE=multipart/form-data;
    boundary=---------------------------131841204119493
    
    It seems that AOLServer at Primehost isn't honoring the Content-Type
    header.  Anyone have a clue what's going on here?
    
    Thanks,
        Pete.
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:59:09 +0100
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Ray Davis 
    Subject:      Re: AOLserver and Sockets Problem
    
    > The mute silence from AOL is not at all comforting.
    >
    > We are an ISP that also is a network integrator. We had hoped to recommend
    > AOLserver (and would have participated in any dealership or resale plans you
    > had for the product). Due to the way that this problem has been handled (or
    > more precisely, ignored) we will now pursue other options.
    >
    > Why the silence?
    
    As I understand it, AOLserver is free and if you want real support
    you have to pay for it.  Any donated support we might receive via
    this mailing list depends on the AOL folks' spare time.
    
    Check out www.aolserver.com or www.primehost.com (I'm not sure which).
    It might be worth your while to get a support contract.
    
    Cheers,
    Ray
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:47:27 +0100
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Kristian Jorg 
    Subject:      Re: CGI environment is lying
    
    > I'm trying to get a CGI script to process a file upload on a Primehost
    > commercial site, and it's not working as it did when I used the same
    > script on an NT machine running GNNServer 2.031.  The Perl-based CGI
    > doesn't seem to recognize the content type, and when I asked the script to
    > dump out the environment variables, there was no "CONTENT_TYPE" variable
    > as promised in the CGI Developer's Guide.  Instead, there were these two
    > variables:
    >
    > HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE=application/x-form-url-encoded
    >
    > I took the script and moved it to a machine running Netscape Commerce
    > 1.12, and the same dump of environment variables showed the following
    > line:
    >
    > CONTENT_TYPE=multipart/form-data;
    > boundary=---------------------------131841204119493
    
    I assume you have forgotten to add the content-type argument to your form
    tag in the HTML doc?
    
    This is what I have. It works on GNNserver 2.033. I have not tested it yet
    under 2.1, though I do not expect problems.
    
    
    
    /Kristian
    
    ------------------------------------------------
    Kristian Jörg             | Phone: +46 54 153395
    BEFOR System Integration  | Fax:   +46 54 153389
    Box 533, S-65112 KARLSTAD | Email: krjg@befor.se
    ------------------------------------------------
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:41:15 +0100
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Andre April 
    Subject:      Re: SSL key certification
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    
    Andre April said:
    > How can I certify the certificate request myself? I got the SSLeay package,
    > but it does not recognize the certificate request.
    
    I found the solution after a few hours...
    
    The certificate request generated by aolserver is almost in PEM format. It
    looks like:
    
    Webmaster: Andre.April@cediti.be
    Phone: +32.71.259404
    Certificate Request generated by AOLserver 2.1/SSL Module v1.3:
            Common Name: spirou.cediti.be
            Organizational Unit: UCL
            Organizational Name: CEDITI
            Locality Name: 6041 Gosselies
            State Or Province: Hainaut
            Country Name: BE
    
    -----Begin New Certificate Request-----
    MIFtMIEbAgEAMIG6MQswCQYDVQQGEwJCRTEQMA4GA1UECBMHSGFpbmF1dDEXMBUG
    ...
    8x+Z1XDBNotDF0mzCNCAvGWmJXV7kCKv1bPf2r/Z138=
    -----End New Certificate Request-----
    
    
    Howether SSLeay expect something like
    
    -----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
    MIFtMIEbAgEAMIG6MQswCQYDVQQGEwJCRTEQMA4GA1UECBMHSGFpbmF1dDEXMBUG
    ...
    8x+Z1XDBNotDF0mzCNCAvGWmJXV7kCKv1bPf2r/Z138=
    -----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
    
    i.e. in upper case only! Once this is done, you simply have to rename the
    certificate request file to "newreq.pem" and execute "CA.sh -sign". The new
    certificate will be stored in "newcert.pem". Copy this file to your
    aolserver-2.1/servers/"virtual server name" directory and fill the filename
    for the KeyFile and CertFile attributes in the ssl module configuration page
    for your server. Restart the server... it's done.
    
    Andre.
    
    P.S. After installing SSLeay, you have to "initialize" your Certification
    Authority. You first have to edit .../ssl/lib/ssleay.conf and then execute
    "CA.sh -newca".
    
    P.P.S. The procedure for Windows NT should be similar (it will probably be
    more difficult to compile and install SSLeay).
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:52:52 -0400
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         James F Smallacombe 
    Subject:      Re: Virtual Servers stopping
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    
    I had somebody else tell me the same thing, but I checked and two
    of the virtual servers that stopped did not have reverse DNS enabled.
    
    -Still stumped
    
    
    Date:    Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:59:04 -0700
    From:    Slava Kritov 
    Subject: Re: AOLSERVER Digest - 23 Oct 1996 to 24 Oct 1996
    
    Hi !
    I have the same kind a problem on Solarisx86 2.5.1
    But I've mananged to fish out some detail and solve ( mine ;) problem.
    The preoblem that I had is when you're switching on the reverse name
    resolution, and for whatever reason your name resolver goes down, so
    does AOLserver. If the reverse resolution is not available, or you have
    named from Vixie (:) when it takes a lot of time to get "no responce"
    server behaves erratically and some threads might just hang ...
    This usually be race conditions with DNS requests.
    
    Well - I resorted to removing reverse lookups from server, and its just
    working fine.
    
    Best
            Slava
    
    >
    > > I was hoping the release version of AOLserver 2.1 would fix this, but it
    > > hasn't.  Under Solaris 2.5 (with the TCP and ifconfig patches), a virtual
    > > server still stops occasionally.  The old listenthread fix doesn't work
    > > either.  Oddly, out of 15 virtual servers, I've yet to see more than one
    > > die at a time, and it's a different one every time.
    > >
    > > Has anyone identified this bug?  Is it unique to Solaris?
    >
    >         I'm having the same problem.  I tried to pound the server with a
    > bunch of requests ((while [ 1 ]; do lynx -dump http://www; done;) &) and
    > it didn't stop.  When I put the server live it then stopped after awhile.
    > In the meantime I'm running the 2.0 version.  It looks like the Linux 2.1
    > AOLServer is now more stable than the Solaris version.  But there is no
    > Illustra for Linux :(.  I'm running Solaris 2.4 with the lastest patches
    > (as far as I know) on a Sparcstation 20.
    >         This problem has existed for awhile now and I haven't seen any
    > response from the developers.  What's going on?
    >
    
    James Smallacombe                      Bucks County, PA Internet Access
    james@pil.net                          http://www.pil.net
    PlantageNet Internet Ltd.              http://www.plantagenet.com
     "I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares"  3 Henry VI, I,i
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:34:54 -0500
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         "Peter M. Jansson" 
    Subject:      Re: CGI environment is lying
    In-Reply-To:  <9610291047.AA23831@ befor.se>
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
    
    I did specify the enctype parameter on the FORM tag as
    "multipart/form-data".
    
    Pete.
    
    On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Kristian Jorg wrote:
    
    > > I'm trying to get a CGI script to process a file upload on a Primehost
    > > commercial site, and it's not working as it did when I used the same
    > > script on an NT machine running GNNServer 2.031.  The Perl-based CGI
    > > doesn't seem to recognize the content type, and when I asked the script=
     to
    > > dump out the environment variables, there was no "CONTENT_TYPE" variabl=
    e
    > > as promised in the CGI Developer's Guide.  Instead, there were these tw=
    o
    > > variables:
    > >
    > > HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE=3Dapplication/x-form-url-encoded
    > >
    > > I took the script and moved it to a machine running Netscape Commerce
    > > 1.12, and the same dump of environment variables showed the following
    > > line:
    > >
    > > CONTENT_TYPE=3Dmultipart/form-data;
    > > boundary=3D---------------------------131841204119493
    >=20
    > I assume you have forgotten to add the content-type argument to your form
    > tag in the HTML doc?
    >=20
    > This is what I have. It works on GNNserver 2.033. I have not tested it ye=
    t
    > under 2.1, though I do not expect problems.
    >=20
    > 
    >=20
    > /Kristian
    >=20
    > ------------------------------------------------
    > Kristian J=F6rg             | Phone: +46 54 153395
    > BEFOR System Integration  | Fax:   +46 54 153389
    > Box 533, S-65112 KARLSTAD | Email: krjg@befor.se
    > ------------------------------------------------
    >=20
    >=20
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:22:03 -0500
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Jim Davidson 
    Subject:      Re: AOLserver and Sockets Problem
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    
    At 06:13 PM 10/24/96 PDT, Tom Byrnes wrote:
    >We put the server into the domain and are now using named pipes to communicate
    >with SQL server. Surprise, it works properly.
    >
    >This is clearly a problem with sockets calls from the CGI environment. The
    >apparent culprit would be the nssock.dll, although there may be other code
    >that causes a problem for CGI calls making it to the nssock.dll routines.
    
    
    By default, the environment variables set before executing a CGI only
    includes those required by the CGI spec.  I've heard this screws up programs
    which use wsock32.dll.  Try setting the SystemEnvironment option to on which
    will cause all variables to be set.  I think the variable actually needed by
    wsock is windir and/or winsysdir.
    
    
    
    
    >The mute silence from AOL is not at all comforting.
    >
    >We are an ISP that also is a network integrator. We had hoped to recommend
    >AOLserver (and would have participated in any dealership or resale plans you
    >had for the product). Due to the way that this problem has been handled (or
    >more precisely, ignored) we will now pursue other options.
    >
    >Why the silence?
    
    
    AOLserver is free and only supported if you buy a service contract.
    
    -Jim
    _______________________
     Jim Davidson
     jimbo@sb.aol.com
     Voice: (805) 882-2350
     Fax:   (805) 899-4316
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:20:54 PST
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Tom Byrnes 
    Subject:      Re: AOLserver and Sockets Problem
    Comments: To: Jim Davidson 
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    
    We actually got a full distribution version of the AOLserver (DOCs, CD and
    all) and would be more than happy to get service contracts for every AOLserver
    we recommend.
    
    Is there going to be a dealership plan for AOLserver?
    
    --- On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:22:03 -0500  Jim Davidson  wrote:
    > At 06:13 PM 10/24/96 PDT, Tom Byrnes wrote:
    > >We put the server into the domain and are now using named pipes to
    communicate
    > >with SQL server. Surprise, it works properly.
    > >
    > >This is clearly a problem with sockets calls from the CGI environment. The
    > >apparent culprit would be the nssock.dll, although there may be other code
    > >that causes a problem for CGI calls making it to the nssock.dll routines.
    >
    >
    > By default, the environment variables set before executing a CGI only
    > includes those required by the CGI spec.  I've heard this screws up programs
    > which use wsock32.dll.  Try setting the SystemEnvironment option to on which
    > will cause all variables to be set.  I think the variable actually needed by
    > wsock is windir and/or winsysdir.
    >
    >
    
    Where do we need to set this?
    
    >
    >
    > >The mute silence from AOL is not at all comforting.
    > >
    > >We are an ISP that also is a network integrator. We had hoped to recommend
    > >AOLserver (and would have participated in any dealership or resale plans
    you
    > >had for the product). Due to the way that this problem has been handled (or
    > >more precisely, ignored) we will now pursue other options.
    > >
    > >Why the silence?
    >
    >
    > AOLserver is free and only supported if you buy a service contract.
    >
    
    How do we get one for our customer?
    
    
    
    > -Jim
    > _______________________
    >  Jim Davidson
    >  jimbo@sb.aol.com
    >  Voice: (805) 882-2350
    >  Fax:   (805) 899-4316
    >
    
    ---------------End of Original Message-----------------
    
    **************************************************************
    /         Tomas L. Byrnes, Applications Engineer
    /               E-mail: tomb@adnc.net
    /             Date: 10/29/96  Time: 13:20:54
    /   WANS/LANS, Connecting the World, Private/Public Networks,
    /             ISPs, Data/LAN/Voice, Routing
    **************************************************************
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:03:47 +0100
    Reply-To:     dormanns@kzs.hu
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Dormanns Marcel 
    Organization: Kossuth Zsuzsanna Tech. Highschool
    Subject:      TCL scripts and directory listing.
    
    Since a while I'm using AOLserver + Illustra on NT 3.51, and I
    encountered some (minor) problems which I could not solve yet.
    
    - Turning off directory browsing (DirectoryListing=none) inhibits
    users from automatically receiving index.htm etc. I don't like users
    just browsing around (call it paranoia if you want), but I do want
    to send them index.htm or default.htm automatically if they call
    plain http://www.kzs.hu. We used MS-IIS previously, and this can send
    a default html-document while inhibiting directory listing. Did I
    miss some parameter somewhere?
    
    - I defined a tcl-script which registers itself as
    http://www.kzs.hu/guestbook/default.htm , dynamically building a page
    from the guestbook database (Illustra) and sending it to the client.
    The problem here is that AOLpress somehow doesn't see the default.htm
    when I create and use the guestbook miniweb. Pointing my browser to
    http://www.kzs.hu/guestbook/ gives me a directory listing instead of
    the default.htm. Any other deafult.htm documents work just fine, it's
    the tcl-script that somehow differs from a static html-document.
    Again, did I miss some setup parameters or are these effects expected
    behaviour of AOLserver.
    
    Any help and suggestions would be appreciated.
    
    
    Marcel Dormanns (dormanns@kzs.hu)
    network manager
    Kossuth Zsuzsa Tech. and vocational school
    Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary.
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:59:30 +0100
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Kristian Jorg 
    Subject:      Re: CGI environment is lying
    
    > I did specify the enctype parameter on the FORM tag as
    > "multipart/form-data".
    
    Darn!
    
    Guess I have a problem myself then.
    
    Kristian
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:47:52 -0500
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         JOHN CHEN 
    Subject:      SOS
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    
    Could you please tell me do I need some software such as database
    enableed software to link my web page with MS Acess database file? Can I
    play this function locally? and how?
    
    Many thanks.
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:02:23 -0800
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Eric Klein 
    Subject:      Re: CGI environment is lying
    Comments: To: "Peter M. Jansson" 
    In-Reply-To:  
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
    
    On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Peter M. Jansson wrote:
    
    > I did specify the enctype parameter on the FORM tag as
    > "multipart/form-data".
    >=20
    > Pete.
    >=20
    
    I've looked this over, and tried to reproduce this, and have had no luck,
    however, the CGI code for the 2.033, and earlier, server has changed
    significantly in the transition to 2.1, and this may explain the problem.
    
    If you have a chance, could you let me know if this problem persists for
    you in 2.1?
    
    
    Eric Klein
    eric@sb.aol.com
    
    
    > On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Kristian Jorg wrote:
    >=20
    > > > I'm trying to get a CGI script to process a file upload on a Primehos=
    t
    > > > commercial site, and it's not working as it did when I used the same
    > > > script on an NT machine running GNNServer 2.031.  The Perl-based CGI
    > > > doesn't seem to recognize the content type, and when I asked the scri=
    pt to
    > > > dump out the environment variables, there was no "CONTENT_TYPE" varia=
    ble
    > > > as promised in the CGI Developer's Guide.  Instead, there were these =
    two
    > > > variables:
    > > >
    > > > HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE=3Dapplication/x-form-url-encoded
    > > >
    > > > I took the script and moved it to a machine running Netscape Commerce
    > > > 1.12, and the same dump of environment variables showed the following
    > > > line:
    > > >
    > > > CONTENT_TYPE=3Dmultipart/form-data;
    > > > boundary=3D---------------------------131841204119493
    > >=20
    > > I assume you have forgotten to add the content-type argument to your fo=
    rm
    > > tag in the HTML doc?
    > >=20
    > > This is what I have. It works on GNNserver 2.033. I have not tested it =
    yet
    > > under 2.1, though I do not expect problems.
    > >=20
    > > 
    > >=20
    > > /Kristian
    > >=20
    > > ------------------------------------------------
    > > Kristian J=F6rg             | Phone: +46 54 153395
    > > BEFOR System Integration  | Fax:   +46 54 153389
    > > Box 533, S-65112 KARLSTAD | Email: krjg@befor.se
    > > ------------------------------------------------
    > >=20
    > >=20
    >=20
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:46:35 -0500
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Kirk Zurell 
    Subject:      Re: ns_db instruction problems.
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    
    Using AOLserver 2.1/Illustra (3.2?) on Windows NT Server 3.51 SP5.
    
    Have loaded module nsdb.dll into my virtual server. "Database Services"
    appears as /NS/db/admin. Whenever I select any links on that page, the
    server reports an error and the log shows any ns_db instruction as
    an "invalid instruction".
    
    I imagine it's just a configuration problem, I'm new to NT Server. Is
    there an easy fix, or should I move back to an earlier version of AOLserver?
    
    Thanks in advance,
    
    Kirk Zurell
    Computer Consultant
    University of Windsor
    Windsor, Ontario, Canada
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:53:59 -0500
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Michael Kmiec 
    Subject:      Debugging DLLs...
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    
    Hello,
    
    While working on an NT port of some code that works well on UNIX, I was
    testing the URLs we constructed. Eventually, I hit a POST URL that revealed
    this in the server.log:
    
            *** Exception caught in thread 158 - invoking exception callbacks ***
    
            Status of virtual server 'vServ':
            Threads:  min 0, max 50, current 1, idle 0, stopping 0
            Active Connections:
            158: running POST /Submit 0
            Status of virtual server 'nssetup':
            Threads:  min 0, max 50, current 0, idle 0, stopping 0
            Active Connections:
    
            [30/Oct/1996:15:49:30 -0500][172][vServ] Fatal:
            Server fatal exception - exiting.
    
            [30/Oct/1996:15:49:31 -0500][66] Notice: Restarted:  AOLServer 2.1
    
    Uh Oh! I better try to see what's going on inside the wonderful Microsoft
    Visual C++ debugger. Well, when I try to hook up to the DLL -- using MS
    instructions -- it tries to command-line spawn a new AOLServer process that
    never actually works and I never get to see what's going on.
    
    My question is, has anyone been able to debug a DLL for AOLServer using MS
    VC++ 4.0? I'm kinda new to debugging on NT, perhaps I'm missing something,
    or perhaps there's a better way to debug this (i.e., a way AOLServer *can*
    start on the command line so that I can get to the point where my DLL dies.)
    Any help appreciated...
    
    
    Michael "Spooky" Kmiec
    
    
    ------------------------------------------------------
    Michael Kmiec                         PFN Incorporated
                                      26 Landsdowne Street
                                       Cambridge, MA 02139
    mike@pfn.com                              617.494.9980
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 30 Oct 1996 23:30:40 +0100
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Toni Pamies 
    Subject:      *** Exception caught in thread
    In-Reply-To:  
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    
    Hello,
    
    I'm running Aolserver 2.1 for Linux on my linux box (RedHat 4.0 Kernel
    2.0.24).
    
    I start the server, and in the server log appears:
    
    
    *** Exception caught in thread -1101004692 - invoking exception callbacks
    ***
    
    Status of virtual server 'readysoftes':
        Threads:  min 0, max 100, current 5, idle 1, stopping 0
    Active Connections:
    
    And then the server is down. Can you help me?
    
                 \\|//
                 (@ @)
    +--------ooO--(_)--Ooo-----------------+------------------------------------+
    |  Antoni Pamies Olive                 |  Et Portem el mon a casa           |
    |  Equip Webmestres                    |                                    |
    |  Ready Soft                          |  http://www.readysoft.es           |
    |  Av. Paisos Catalans, 44 1r          |  webmaster@readysoft.es            |
    |  Reus (Catalunya)                    |                                    |
    +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:05:44 -0800
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Eric Klein 
    Subject:      CGI problems
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    
    Hello everybody...
    
    First, a disclaimer: I've been trying to answer peoples questions as soon
    as I get a chance to look into them, but I've also been very bogged in
    other ways, so the going has been a bit slower that I would like.
    
    That being said, I've noticed a great many people are having trouble with
    CGI in one way or another, so... for everyone experiencing trouble, it
    would be very usefull for me if you would let me know what version of the
    server you are using. Please note also, that a great many of the CGI
    problems were solved with the move to 2.1, so if you would please check
    the bug against 2.1, as it may already be fixed, it would be greatly
    appreciated.
    
    Thanx
    
    Eric Klein
    eric@sb.aol.com
    
    P.S. If anyone has a truly urgent problem, please flag it as such, and I
    will do my best to put aside other projects, and look into it. I of course
    can't guarantee anything, but I'll try.
    =========================================================================
    Date:         Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:12:29 -0800
    Reply-To:     Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    Sender:       Web Development with AOLserver and PrimeHost
                  
    From:         Eric Klein 
    Subject:      Re: CGI - date problem - followup
    Comments: To: Ivan Auger 
    In-Reply-To:  <199610251252.IAA12262@tronador.wadsworth.org>
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    On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Ivan Auger wrote:
    
    > Hi,
    >    Yes, that's what I thougth from the documentation.  However, when I go to the
    > cgi section  (line is "CGI Scripting (cgi)" in "Additional Parameters"), it only
    > allows me to do Mappings...
    >
    >    Ivan...
    >
    >  P.S. I am running AOLserver 2.1 under solaris...
    >
    
    This most likely means that you are not in expert mode. Once you are in
    expert mode, you will be allowed to do this. Just click the basic button,
    and you should then be able to play with the environment.
    
    Happy Hunting
    
    Eric Klein
    eric@sb.aol.com
    
    
    
    
    > >
    > > Well, there is a way.
    > >
    > > In the setup server, go to your virtual server, and open the cgi section.
    > >
    > > Under environment, check the existing area (or if none is checked, click
    > > on the 'Define new environment' link, and then name the environment)
    > >
    > > In the evironment page, just set up your variables and values however you
    > > like. Just click on the update, or add button (whichever is applicable),
    > > and you should be all set.
    > >
    > > Happy hunting.
    > >
    > > Eric Klein
    > > eric@sb.aol.com
    > >
    >