[Melbourne-pm] interesting apache outcome

[Ian Macdonald]

Without delving into the murky waters of editor preferences, an immediate
win would be to use notepad++ instead, which is available here
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php.


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:09 PM, John Thornton <jdthornton at ozemail.com.au>wrote:

>  Yes, I was using notepad as my editor to make my files!
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> Notepad is in general a good editor to use. For instance it worked in
> making .pl files that tested correctly for hello world in my command line.
>
> But I will follow your tip as notepad may have its limitations here.
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> Hard to think of what else to use. I do have PSpad installed if I wanted to
> use something a bit fancier.
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>
>
> John
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> *From:* Ian Macdonald [mailto:ickphum at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 21 August 2008 5:54 PM
> *To:* John Thornton
> *Cc:* Jacinta Richardson; melbourne-pm at pm.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Melbourne-pm] interesting apache outcome
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> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:49 PM, John Thornton <jdthornton at ozemail.com.au>
> wrote:
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> Hmm..
>
>    I did as you suggested and got:
>
>     Object not found!
>
> The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL
> manually please check your spelling and try again.
>
> If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
> Error 404
> localhost
> 08/21/08 17:44:37
> Apache/2.2.9 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8h mod_autoindex_color
> PHP/5.2.6
>
> ***************
> So I don't know. It seems to me that there is one difference between the
> files that have succeeded as CGI browser formats in the explore CGI box:
>
> the successful ones are listed as CGI files whereas the ones I tried such
> as
> hello.cgi are still listed as text documents.
>
> Thanks anyway
> Any more suggestions and I will try them out.
>
> John
>
>
> That sounds interesting; what editor are you using to create the files? It
> sounds like it might be Notepad or something else that likes to silently add
> .txt to all file names.
>
> In the explorer window, go to the Tools menu and choose Folder Options. Now
> select the View tab and find "Hide extensions for known file types" and make
> sure this is not ticked. Click Apply, Ok, refresh the window and see if some
> of the files now display as name.cgi.txt. If so, remove the ".txt" part and
> try again.
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>
> --
> Ian Macdonald
>



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Ian Macdonald
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