New to A5w - Question

[Peter.Greulich]

So I assume you are working on "Tom", locally? The v7 WAS will only publish to your local machine (unless you buy a license). Your local machine acts as a server to itself.

[Tom Henkel]

OK, but it is not working!!!

[Lenny Forziati]

You cannot browse to the file and double-click it to open it. You must use a URL to access it through your browser. Otherwise your A5W code will not be evaluated and your browser will show the source as-is.

With the server running, go to your web browser and visit the URL http://TOM/Web_Applications_Demo/default/mainMenu.a5w. What happens? If you get an error message, please post the full message.

You should also verify that you do not have any firewall software blocking the server from using the port it is trying to run on (default of 80).

-Lenny

I have been using Alpha for years, and have many very large desktop spplications. We are evaluating ver 7 and the web server. In tryingto do the evaluation, I am attempting to run the web app demo.

The 3rd button "Laaunch the Home page" does NOT.

I opened up the form, and did an interactive of te code under the button.
This is the result:

?a5w_computeURL("local webroot","default","mainMenu.a5w")
= "http://TOM/Web_Applications_Demo/default/mainMenu.a5w"

the only way I counld launch the main menu was to navigate to the folder and double click on the "mainMenu.a5w" file.

C:\Program Files\A5V7\Samples\WebAppServerDemo\Web_Applications_Demo.WebProjects\Default.WebProject\MainMenu.A5W


Is it just me, or is something wrong??

Thanks in advance

Tom

[Peter.Greulich]

Tom, I feel your pain. I'm sure this is really simple. Maybe someone who sees the light can jump in. Now where is that Lenny when you need him?

[Lenny Forziati]

Ignore "TOM" guys, you're going down the wrong road. In the URL, Tom's machine knows it is named "TOM" so that is how it is referencing itself. "localhost" will also work for everyone since it always means this computer, but since Alpha knew the computer was named TOM, it was more specific in the URL that it constructed. It has nothing to do with target folders or paths.

Tom, the profile's "Target Folder" will control where the files are published to. Your's says "default" which means the files go to the a5webroot folder. But your first post indicated that the folder is "tom", not a5webroot. So there is a pathing issue. How did "tom" come to be?

[Lenny Forziati]

The Web App Server will publish anywhere you'd like, regardless of your license. What is restricted is how the server allows access without a license. If you are not licensed, access will be allowed only from the local computer. So if Tom runs an unlicensed server, he can access it from his own computer, but Dick and Harry cannot access it from theirs.

So I assume you are working on "Tom", locally? The v7 WAS will only publish to your local machine (unless you buy a license). Your local machine acts as a server to itself.

[Lenny Forziati]

Your profile is fine

Here's what I have there.

Should I have a different profile set up?

[Tom Henkel]

I think my mom and dad had something to do with it......

[Tom Henkel]

Lenny,

I just read your post, Opened up v6, re-published the pages, Launched the web server, then came to this post, and clicked on the url in your reply.

It is working!!!


I still cannot press the Launch home page of sample application button and get ie to load and run the url.

Thanks for your help!?

Tom

[Lenny Forziati]

That button calculates the URL (which we now know is correct), and then uses sys_open() to launch your default web browser.

If you go to the Interactive Window and do the following, what happens?

sys_open("http://www.alphasoftware.com/")

Lenny,

I just read your post, Opened up v6, re-published the pages, Launched the web server, then came to this post, and clicked on the url in your reply.

It is working!!!


I still cannot press the Launch home page of sample application button and get ie to load and run the url.

Thanks for your help!?

Tom

[Tom Henkel]

Sorry it took so long, but I just got in. We were closed yesterday.

I just tried it, and NOTHING happens. I even made sure the web app server was running.

[Peter.Greulich]

Sorry it took so long, but I just got in. We were closed yesterday.

I just tried it, and NOTHING happens. I even made sure the web app server was running.

Tom,

What made it work the other day? Could it be some network setting or administrative rights issue?

[Tom Henkel]

Peter,

If I have IE open, and launch the URL, all is good. I cannot seem to launch IE from the program. I can, however, launch IE from the URL in the e-mail that I just got telling me that you responded.

Go figure!

Tom

[Peter.Greulich]

If I have IE open, and launch the URL, all is good. I cannot seem to launch IE from the program.

Tom,

As long as the URL works from IE, I think you're in good shape. There must be some conflict somewhere preventing IE from being launched by Alpha. But, as you know, in the real world, users will open IE and then navigate to the URL.

[Lenny Forziati]

Peter is correct Tom, this will not impact your application when it is deployed. It is only going to affect you when you try to launch a URL from Alpha itself.

But even though this isn't a critical issue, let's see what else we can find out. sys_open() should just be passing the URL to Windows and asking Windows to handle it. What happens if you go to Start->Run and enter http://www.alphasoftware.com and then click OK?

Tom,

As long as the URL works from IE, I think you're in good shape. There must be some conflict somewhere preventing IE from being launched by Alpha. But, as you know, in the real world, users will open IE and then navigate to the URL.