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Håkan
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This is our client site.wfs which has worked without any problem for several years. Now we've upgraded to 7.6.4 from 7.1 and the variables RAPP and AUTH_USER are not set.


HTTP_HOST=&HTTP_HOST
SET_IP=&REMOTE_HOST
RAPP=&IBIF_ex
AUTH_USER=&AUTH_USER
WEBROOT = E:\\webroots\\esealmw440\\web\\


Any ideas?

W2003 Server, IIS, Tomcat 5.5

Tia
Håkan


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Francis Mariani
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Try the alternate syntax for this:
WF_PROGRAM=&CGI_PROG
<set> WF_PROGRAM (pass)

Where WF_PROGRAM is the variable passed to WebFOCUS and &CGI_PROG is the server variable.

RAPP=&IBIF_ex
<set> RAPP (pass)


Here's a posting on this subject Pass the URL of the current WF request in a DM variable and another Server Variable

I hope this helps.


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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smiths
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Håkan,

I can confirm that we have our 7.6.2 site.wfs syntax set as Francis has suggested.

The only difference in our file is that there is no space between the variable name and the (pass) part, but I assume that either way is OK.

Sean


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Håkan
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Francis,

I've modified the site.wfs to use the {SET} syntax instead of {SENDVAR}. The funny? thing is that some variables are passed on, but not AUTH_USER or RAPP. The problem is that we're heavily dependant on AUTH_USER, since we're logging every request.

Håkan

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Håkan,

We have 2 instances of site.wfs on the client side, but we only use one of them. Is it the ./WebFOCUS76/client/wfc/etc/site.wfs version that you have updated? This is the one we use.

Also, I assume you stopped and restarted the WF and Tomcat processes?

Other than that, I don't know what it could be.

Sean


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Francis Mariani
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Are you sure that AUTH_USER and IBIF_ex are valid server variables?

To find out the fex being executed, you have &FOCFOCEXEC already available as a DM variable. IBIC_user is is usually the server user id, which must be passed by site.wfs.


Francis


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