Forum OpenACS Q&A: Win2K AOLServer and OpenACS

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Posted by Ryan Casey on
I am trying to get AOLServer and OpenACS working on Win2K using
Cygwin.  I have been looking at the prior posts, but everyone seems
to be further than me.

Are there pages that I could test in OpenACS without PGSql installed,
just to see if I have that configuration proper?  It seems to try and
load index.tcl, but just sits there with the progress bar running for
a few minutes before it fails.

Thanks.

Ryan P. Casey

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Posted by James Harris on
The default index.tcl tried to access the database, so if you don't have Postgres installed, it won't work.

If you want to test whether AOLServer is working, replace the original index.tcl with an index.tcl containing only static HTML.

i.e.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>AOLServer test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>AOLServer test</H1>
<P>If you can see this, then AOLServer is working</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Posted by James Harris on
My HTML didn't show up, but if you 'view source' you can see it.
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Posted by Dave Bauer on
Is there only HTML in your .TCL file? Call it index.html if there is no Tcl code in it. A minimal Tcl page has this:

ns_return 200 text/html "put your html in here"

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Posted by Andrei Popov on
the simplest test is to fire up aolserver with a default config.tcl -- you will then see something like this:

Welcome to AOLserver

Welcome to the AOLserver Community! AOLserver supports a long list of exciting features including:
For the latest AOLserver information, visit the AOLserver.COM web site.

AOLserver is provided subject to the terms of the AOLserver Public License.