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From: Hector Santos
Organization: Santronics Software, Inc
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Subject: Re: [WINServer] Error & Template files
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On 11/26/2018 10:44 AM, David King wrote:
> Hector
>
> OK so following your chronology the following:
>
> - check for http\errors\notfound.wct
> Entered: http://www.military.world/errors/notfound.wct
> Response: Error 00000002 Template File Not Found:
wc:\http\errors\notfound.wct - Contact Web Master
This is clearly a problem with your VDG setup.
> What I do know is that the page (notfound.html) exists but for some reason
Wildcat isn't displaying it.
>For some reason Wildcat appears to search for the .wct and .htm
extensions but not .html like it does elsewhere. I think that maybe
the issue ? (please correct if I am wrong!)
You are mixing things up. I am afraid I may confuse you.
First, you need to get the VDG paths correct because if you get an
ERROR 2 (FILE NOT FOUND) with your direct URL request:
http://www.military.world/errors/notfound.wct
then the folder does not exist or the file does not exist. Its that
simple.
Second, mixing up the ideas of *.WCT and *.HTM and *.HTML files and
wcWEB treats them.
Rather than to figure out what is confusing to you, lets begin with
these two basic concepts:
- Wildcat Template (WCT) HTML files
- Pure HTML Files
When you enter a URL in the browser, with the extension:
.WCT Wildcat will process this file as a Template File
.HTM(L) Wildcat will DUMP this file to the browser, not process.
Again, that is WHEN you enter the URL yourself.
This is MUCH different than how it works internally NOT ENTERING A
URL, but how an WCX or WCWEB expects to do.
Internally, it can be an WCX or wcWEB itself who is using the files in
the http\template and http\errors folders. There are many optional
file to dedending on the event. If WCX or WCWEB wants to do a
template, despite the file name and extension, they will called:
TemplateInit(filename, parameters)
That begins the template processor and it doesn't matter what the
extension is.
This is why all the files in the HTTP\TEMPLATE\* are templates, even
though there are mixed bags of *.HTM and *.WCT and also *.INC files.
All templates because almost all of them are used by WCX applications
or the wcWEB directly.
For example, when you click "/client?who.wcn", wcWEB will run
"/code/HTML-WHO.WCX" which will do the following:
TemplateInit("WHOS_ONLINE.HTM","")
to display the who's online.
But if you did this directly,
http://military.world/template/WHOS_ONLINE.HTM
its not going to be processed as a templates. You're not support to
access those files directly. This is why there are a mixture of *.HTM
and *.WCT and even *.INC. It was all designed to be run via a WCX and
not entered directly.
So what about the HTTP\ERRORS\ folder?
The files in the http\ERRORS\ folder and some other files in the
HTTP\* and also HTTP\PUBLIC\*, the sequence I provided to you MAY
apply, it depends.
But look at it this way, NO ONE enters:
http://www.military.world/errors/notfound.wct
The concept of a "Not Found" display is as a response to a real not
found problem like really have a non-existing file:
http://www.military.world/MISSING.html
Now the sequence I provided applies to the original idea of a
"NOTFOUND.HTM" file:
wcWEB sees MISSING.HTML does not exist, so it starts with setting the
response path and file name using pseudo code logic:
// Logic for Not found concept
responsePath = "http\errors\"
responseFile = "notfound.htm"
// now check for .wct version
If Exists(ForceExtension(responsePath+responseFile,"wct")) then
responseFile = "notfound.wct"
end if
// now check for responsefile in custom path:
If Exists(responsePath+"custom\"+responseFile) then
responsePath = responsePath+"custom\"
end if
// now process *.WCT or dump *.HTM
if GetExtension(ResponsePath+ResponseFile) = "WCT" then
// we got a template file
TemplateInit(ResponsePath+ResponseFile,"")
// do a bunch of template stuff as it prints
// to the browsers
else
// just dump to the browser, not processing
PrintFile(ResponsePath+ResponseFile)
end if
Thats the basic idea. This is done for many files. Read the file:
http\errors\readme_errors.txt
The same logic is true for some other files in the HTTP\* and
HTTP\PUBLIC\*, like:
http\closed.wct or htm
http\public\newuser.wct or htm
and many more optional files that can be templates or pure html.
I hope all this gives you some insight. The history is such that
people only had *.HTM(l) and not *.WCT. Only over time, that we wanted
to give them some template processing power, so if there was a
matching *.WCT file, then the *.WCT was used.
Fix the VDG path.
--
Hector, Engineering & Technical Support
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