Forum OpenACS Development: Accessing TCL scripts under serverroot/www

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1: Accessing TCL scripts under serverroot/www
Posted by Brian Fenton on 03/29/17 03:46 PM
Hi

I don't know whether this is an OpenACS or a Naviserver issue, so hopefully someone can enlighten me. On a legacy system of ours running on AOLserver and an old version of OpenACS, TCL scripts placed under ${serverroot}/www were accessible in the browser by visiting the corresponding URL e.g. ${serverroot}/www/brian.tcl was available at http://localhost:8100/brian.tcl
This was also true for the contents of www/resources, www/styles, www/images etc.

It seems that now under OpenACS 590 and Naviserver, in order to get the same result, I need to place the content under /packages/acs-subsite/www

Is there a setting that controls this, so that I can leave the code under ${serverroot}/www, or it is recommended that I move everything to /packages/acs-subsite/www?

thanks
Brian

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2: Re: Accessing TCL scripts under serverroot/www (response to 1)
Posted by Antonio Pisano on 03/29/17 04:08 PM
Hello Brain,

there is a chance something is being overlooked. This feature never changed in the years AFAIK and I have used it on a regular basis.

Just to be 101% sure, I have just putting a file called brian.adp into ${server_root}/www with some content and everything was fine. I am running latest OpenACS and naviserver 4.99.15.

Do you have special configs in place? ...Proxies?

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3: Re: Accessing TCL scripts under serverroot/www (response to 2)
Posted by Brian Fenton on 03/29/17 04:17 PM
Hi Antonio

thanks for replying. I don't have any special config, this is on a fresh install of the Windows build, that Maurizio has provided here http://www.spazioit.com/pages_en/sol_inf_en/windows-openacs_en/

The log says:
[29/Mar/2017:14:33:08][3656.110][-conn:openacs:2-] Error: return: failed to redirect '404': exceeded recursion limit of 3
[29/Mar/2017:15:11:45][3656.110][-conn:openacs:2-] Error: return: failed to redirect '404': exceeded recursion limit of 3
[29/Mar/2017:15:11:51][3656.110][-conn:openacs:2-] Error: return: failed to redirect '404': exceeded recursion limit of 3

Not sure why it's returning the 404.

thanks for the response.
Brian

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5: Re: Accessing TCL scripts under serverroot/www (response to 3)
Posted by Maurizio Martignano on 03/29/17 04:20 PM
This has been fixed as per my other post and it is available in the installer since 2 weeks or so.

Maurizio

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6: Re: Accessing TCL scripts under serverroot/www (response to 5)
Posted by Brian Fenton on 03/29/17 04:27 PM
Indeed it has been fixed! It's working now for me. Many thanks Maurizio for a great response.

Brian

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4: Re: Accessing TCL scripts under serverroot/www (response to 1)
Posted by Maurizio Martignano on 03/29/17 04:18 PM
Dear Brian,
Perhaps you need to make sure you have the following in your config:

ns_section "ns/server/${server}/fastpath"
ns_param serverdir ${homedir}
ns_param pagedir ${pageroot}

Hope it helps,
Maurizio

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7: Re: Accessing TCL scripts under serverroot/www (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 03/30/17 11:41 AM
Brian, this was neither an OpenACS 5.9.* issue, nor a NaviServer issue, but a config file issue. The solution that Maurizio presented is exactly what is present in the recommended default settings shipped with the sample config file for NaviServer (see e.g. [1]).

Since it looks as if your config file was not derived from the sample-config-file, but rather from a legacy configuration, it might be usefule to check for more differences to avoid surprises.

all the best
-gn

[1] https://bitbucket.org/naviserver/naviserver/src/e045cbe91217a66729a065c98e9548ff4a025e06/openacs-config.tcl?at=naviserver-4.99.15&fileviewer=file-view-default

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8: Re: Accessing TCL scripts under serverroot/www (response to 7)
Posted by Brian Fenton on 03/30/17 01:20 PM
Gustaf, I'm really glad you mentioned that, as I just compared the latest version of the config.tcl with the version I've been using, and they are very different! My config was a modified version of the one included in Maurizio's installer about a month ago, but I hadn't taken Maurizio's latest changes.

thanks again
Brian