Hi All,

I just started using the 'Maintain' environment and was stopped by an error while trying to 'deploy and run'.

"HTTP Status 404 - /cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/webapi.dll"

I searched in the forum and found a topic as

http://forums.informationbuild...541009751#8541009751

I tried to create a new path as per the steps given below.

1) File - Show Environments
2) Selected the Server as localhost and clicked Properties
3) Clicked on WebFOCUS Client of localhost and tried to change the Client Path to
/cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/ibiweb.exe (webapi.dll)
4) Click OK

Got following errors,
"Cannot access WebFOCUS Client
/cgi-bin/ibi_cgi/ibiweb.exe"

I searched the file webapi.dll in my local and found this available in C:\ibi\DevStudio71\srv71\wfs\web\cgi.

Any help would be grateful.

Thanks in advance,
Johney Joseph.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

Johney,

Did you check the existence of the aliases cgi-bin and cgi-bin/ibi_cgi on the webserver?
If they are there, what's the type and version of the webserver?

Hi GamP,

I could not find cgi-bin/ibi_cgi in my local machine (Local OS is Windows XP). My local web server is Apache Tomcat 5 which is working when I try http://localhost:8080 (I am getting the Tomcat server home page). The folders C:\j2re1.4.2_06 and C:\j2sdk1.4.2_06 are available. If I need to create the folders cgi-bin/ibi as you specified, where do I create?

Thanks and Regards,
Johney Joseph.

Yes, you defenitely need these two aliases.
The cgi-bin is the first alias, the ibi_cgi is to be created below that first alias.
I think you can do this through tomcat's admin page. And then instruct tomcat to run the exe or dll inside it's own environemnt, I don't know exactly how to do that. But there is a vast tomcat archive available on the web where the solution to this this must be present.

johney,

If you are using Tomcat, are you using ibi_apps/WFServlet, rather then ibi_cgi/ibiwed.exe ?

My Tomcat 'virtual' directories are defined in .xml files in 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.0\conf\Catalina\localhost', with approot.xml, ibi_apps.xml, and ibi_html.xml, among others.

I believe mine were setup during the install process, as I have yet to see a GUI interface to Tomcat stuff.

I was under the impression that WFServlet was the way to go.

Agreed, servlet is the way to go, but there may still be reasons to keep on using the old cgi technology, if only for compatibility issues. And if you need to use cgi (or webapi for that matter), you'll have to have them identified to the webserver by means of the aliases.
And I seem to recall that interfacing with tomcat using the cgi is a rather cumbersome process to set up, which is probably why I never put in the trouble to try it. Problem is that tomcat is not really a full blown webserver, but was actually meant to be no more than a container for web applications (ie, in our case, WFServlet). If yoy really need the cgi, I'd advise to go through IIS. This is a lot easier to set up using the cgi, since IIS is a real full blown webserver. And IIS is quite easy to install and use on the windows xp machine you're using with DevStudio.

quote:

Originally posted by Dave Ayers:
If you are using Tomcat, are you using ibi_apps/WFServlet, rather then ibi_cgi/ibiwed.exe ?

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the point here.

Does it mean that,If I give "ibi_apps/WFServlet" as webfocus client path in the localhost environment, my maintain application will work without using cgi ?

My idea is that , I need to create maintain apps with the help of tomcat web server. Could you please tell me what all are the changes I need to do?

Thanks and Regards,
Johney Joseph.

Johney,

Maintains can be accessed using the servlet method if and only if the release of webfocus is 714 or higher.
714 is the first release that supported maintain thropugh servlets, but in some cases it was just a bit flaky still.
I'd advise to run maintains using the servlet in release 76 or up. Before that, use cgi.
But then you get the problem of integrating cgi with tomcat....