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Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

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    component not showing

    Hi,

    I hope I'm just doing something stupid, but I'm stuck.

    I have created a very simple index page, (index.a5w) just to make sure things work. It has a banner, a graphic, and one a5w component placed within a table.

    After I publish it, in IE and Netscape, it displays the banner, the graphic, and the table, but not the a5w component. In Firefox, what displays is the source code.

    I'm stuck. I can't figure out if I have something in the alias list wrong (the path.alias is set to the local computer where the database is located.) All the files properly publish to the public_html folder, which is the default folder on my ISP.

    I also can't figure out why the source code shows up on Firefox rather than the page itself. Is there some Firefox setting I need to change? All the browsers find the index.html as the default file, rather than index.a5w.

    WAS is licensed and activated. Did I misunderstood something and I can't use it on my own ISP, I have to use on the A5 hosts? Are there some other files I have to download to make the alpha function work?

    Any help would be appreciated. The site is
    annionawarrner.com

    index.a5w
    index.html are both on the site. If you switch between the two you can see that the table grows a litte in the a5w version, since that's where the component is located.

    Ann

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    RE: component not showing

    Ann, your pages and components must be run from a server which has the Web Application Server software installed and running. It sounds like you have installed, licensed and activated the software on your own computer, but have then uploaded the files to your ISP's server which does not run the Web Application Server. This will not work.

    Lenny Forziati
    Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
    Alpha Software Corporation

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      RE: component not showing

      I just took a look at your site Ann and I see it is in fact running on an Apache web server on Unix. In order to have your componanets and A5W pages properly executed, they must be run on a server that has the Web Application Server.

      You have a few options
      - ask your ISP to provide hosting services using the Web Application Server
      - use an ISP that already supports the Web Application Server
      - host the site on your own server

      Lenny Forziati
      Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
      Alpha Software Corporation

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        #4
        RE: component not showing

        I am having the same problem with all of my web components, many of which I have not touched and suddenly they don't work. The only thing I have done is to upgrade to the latest patch. To see what I mean go to http://teambb.no-ip.biz/tei

        Help!
        Howard
        Howard G. Cornett, Independent Consultant

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