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David Pennington

Error in processing a WebConnection request

Hi Everybody

I have just moved from using the Free version of Abyss Web Server to the paid for X2 version so that I can run multiple web sites. However, I now have a problem that I didn't have before. I should mention that I have been building WebConn web sites for about 15 years so, in theory, I should know what I am doing - smile.

I provide back end support to my web pages using Web Connection. A page is requested in the following format:

http://www.waterfrontweather.co.uk/cgi-bin/abtwsac.exe/WeatherMainPage

This all worked fine using the default host in the free version. I set up the script parameter to set where the cgi-bin directory was and everything was good.

Now I have the X2 version, I have 5 web sites running, one of which is the above domain. When I set that domain up in the same fashion as before, I get the following error when I call a page:

Web Server Interface Error - Error processing an HTTP server transaction. An error occurred receiving data: rc=0, errno=0.

Here is the bit of the screen that matters:

I have to say that this looks like a WebConn generated error page.

Would anyone be able to help me understand what is going wrong here?

Any thoughts would be appreciated. If you need more info, just ask.

David

Totally Objects

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jtuchel

Re: Error in processing a WebConnection request

Hi David,

It's been at least a decade that I used Web Connection, and I always used the servlet approach, but I hope I can help at least a little.

A short Google search shows that this is an error thrown by abtwsac.exe. That means your web server seems to be configured okay, but the little cgi program seems to be unable to communicate with your image.

IIRC, WebConn usually answers an error page that contains an http code in its html representation, so for me it seems you have to look at your cgi configuration first, meaning the way from abtwsac.exe to your smalltalk image.

HTH

Joachim

Am Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2013 17:20:23 UTC+2 schrieb David Pennington:

Hi Everybody

I have just moved from using the Free version of Abyss Web Server to the paid for X2 version so that I can run multiple web sites. However, I now have a problem that I didn't have before. I should mention that I have been building WebConn web sites for about 15 years so, in theory, I should know what I am doing - smile.

I provide back end support to my web pages using Web Connection. A page is requested in the following format:

http://www.waterfrontweather.co.uk/cgi-bin/abtwsac.exe/WeatherMainPage

This all worked fine using the default host in the free version. I set up the script parameter to set where the cgi-bin directory was and everything was good.

Now I have the X2 version, I have 5 web sites running, one of which is the above domain. When I set that domain up in the same fashion as before, I get the following error when I call a page:

Web Server Interface Error - Error processing an HTTP server transaction. An error occurred receiving data: rc=0, errno=0.

Here is the bit of the screen that matters:

I have to say that this looks like a WebConn generated error page.

Would anyone be able to help me understand what is going wrong here?

Any thoughts would be appreciated. If you need more info, just ask.
David
Totally Objects

Douglas Swartz

Re: Error in processing a WebConnection request

In reply to this post by David Pennington

Hello David,

Here's a couple of suggestions:

1. Try changing the settings in the abtwsi config file to put out
verbose error messages. My memory of how abtwsac.exe works says you'll
get more data that may give some clues to the problem.

2. I know nothing about Abyss. But, when you switched to multi-host,
do you set up a separate CGI directory for each site, or are you running
through a common CGI directory and executable? Are all the sites
connecting to a single running VAST image, or is there a separate
image for each site? Since what you changed was the web server setup,
the problem almost has to be in either the abtwsi.cnf settings, or
Abyss is invoking abtwsac from a different directory than you expect,
and thus using a different abtwsi.cnf than you expect.

Doug.

Thursday, May 16, 2013, 10:20:23 AM, you wrote:

> Hi Everybody

> I have just moved from using the Free version of Abyss Web Server
> to the paid for X2 version so that I can run multiple web sites.
> However, I now have a problem that I didn't have before. I should
> mention that I have been building WebConn web sites for about 15
> years so, in theory, I should know what I am doing - smile.

> I provide back end support to my web pages using Web Connection. A
> page is requested in the following format:

> http://www.waterfrontweather.co.uk/cgi-bin/abtwsac.exe/WeatherMainPage

> This all worked fine using the default host in the free version. I
> set up the script parameter to set where the cgi-bin directory was and everything was good.

> Now I have the X2 version, I have 5 web sites running, one of which
> is the above domain. When I set that domain up in the same fashion
> as before, I get the following error when I call a page:

> Web Server Interface Error - Error processing an HTTP server
> transaction. An error occurred receiving data: rc=0, errno=0.

> Here is the bit of the screen that matters:

> I have to say that this looks like a WebConn generated error page.

> Would anyone be able to help me understand what is going wrong here?

> Any thoughts would be appreciated. If you need more info, just ask.

> David

> Totally Objects

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David Pennington

Re: Error in processing a WebConnection request

In reply to this post by David Pennington

I have sorted it. Following Doug's suggestion, I found all of the cgi-bin directories. I then renamed all of them except the one I wanted. Making sure that the paths were set for that one got everything going again. Thanks to everyone who answered.

David

Totally Objects

On Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:20:23 UTC+1, David Pennington wrote:

Hi Everybody

I have just moved from using the Free version of Abyss Web Server to the paid for X2 version so that I can run multiple web sites. However, I now have a problem that I didn't have before. I should mention that I have been building WebConn web sites for about 15 years so, in theory, I should know what I am doing - smile.

I provide back end support to my web pages using Web Connection. A page is requested in the following format:

http://www.waterfrontweather.co.uk/cgi-bin/abtwsac.exe/WeatherMainPage

This all worked fine using the default host in the free version. I set up the script parameter to set where the cgi-bin directory was and everything was good.

Now I have the X2 version, I have 5 web sites running, one of which is the above domain. When I set that domain up in the same fashion as before, I get the following error when I call a page:

Web Server Interface Error - Error processing an HTTP server transaction. An error occurred receiving data: rc=0, errno=0.

Here is the bit of the screen that matters:

I have to say that this looks like a WebConn generated error page.

Would anyone be able to help me understand what is going wrong here?

Any thoughts would be appreciated. If you need more info, just ask.
David
Totally Objects