Issue with Narrative Website generated on Windows

[E.Genssmann]

Just to let you know: In case you have published Narrative Website
created on Windows environment, you should be aware of a severe issue:

The websites can be viewed  by MS Explorer-Users only! Guests on your
website using other browsers (e.g. Firefox) will see error messages but
can't see your data. Reason: Navweb created on Windows plattform seems
to confuse "/" and "\" in path for media files or other references.

I've submitted a bug-report  
http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=2914 and hope that it
will be fixed soon.

Regards,
Eckhard



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[AaronSort]

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I haven't looked at it but I once had a similar problem and that time it turned out the links were mix and matching "/" and "\" ie some links used one and some another. try a search in the files and see if that's the case.

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From: Eckhard Genßmann <eckhard.genssmann@...>
To: gramps-windows@...
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:16:21 AM
Subject: [Gramps-windows] Issue with Narrative Website generated on Windows

Just to let you know: In case you have published Narrative Website
created on Windows environment, you should be aware of a severe issue:

The websites can be viewed  by MS Explorer-Users only! Guests on your
website using other browsers (e.g. Firefox) will see error messages but
can't see your data. Reason: Navweb created on Windows plattform seems
to confuse "/" and "\" in path for media files or other references.

I've submitted a bug-report 
http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=2914 and hope that it
will be fixed soon.

Regards,
Eckhard



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[E.Genssmann]

I was hoping that this issue was solved with new version 3.1.2 - unfortunately it is not!

Navweb still confuses "\" and "/" within websites created by Gramps on Windows. This means that I still can't update my website as there are some users with other browsers but MS Explorer.
How are other windows-user handle website-creation?

Thanks for your support,
Eckhard

E.Genssmann wrote:

Just to let you know: In case you have published Narrative Website
created on Windows environment, you should be aware of a severe issue:

The websites can be viewed  by MS Explorer-Users only! Guests on your
website using other browsers (e.g. Firefox) will see error messages but
can't see your data. Reason: Navweb created on Windows plattform seems
to confuse "/" and "\" in path for media files or other references.

I've submitted a bug-report  
http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=2914 and hope that it
will be fixed soon.

Regards,
Eckhard



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[steve_geo]

Hi Eckhard,

I am pushing this over to the Gramps DEV list.(seems you're subscribed
to that list also)

As I don't believe the people who can help you are monitoring the
Windows list.

Am I correct in saying the problem is not when navigating the html on
you own hard disk, but once you publish it on a web server?

Steve

E.Genssmann wrote:

> I was hoping that this issue was solved with new version 3.1.2 -
> unfortunately it is not!
>
> Navweb still confuses "\" and "/" within websites created by Gramps on
> Windows. This means that I still can't update my website as there are some
> users with other browsers but MS Explorer.
> How are other windows-user handle website-creation?
>
> Thanks for your support,
> Eckhard
>
>
>
>
> E.Genssmann wrote:
>  
>> Just to let you know: In case you have published Narrative Website
>> created on Windows environment, you should be aware of a severe issue:
>>
>> The websites can be viewed  by MS Explorer-Users only! Guests on your
>> website using other browsers (e.g. Firefox) will see error messages but
>> can't see your data. Reason: Navweb created on Windows plattform seems
>> to confuse "/" and "\" in path for media files or other references.
>>
>> I've submitted a bug-report  
>> http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=2914 and hope that it
>> will be fixed soon.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eckhard
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>    
>
>  

   

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[Doug Blank-2]

I added a note to the bug on the fix:

http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=2914

Don't have time to fix that just now, but if no one else does, I can fix it tomorrow.

-Doug

2009/6/21 Stéphane Charette <stephanecharette@...>

>> Navweb still confuses "\" and "/" within websites created by Gramps on
>> Windows. This means that I still can't update my website as there are some
>> users with other browsers but MS Explorer.

The problem is that NarrativeWeb somewhere is using \ (backslash)
instead of / (forward slash).  I encountered this as well on 1 GRAMPS
web site published on the internet.  There is no solution at this
point.  Microsoft Internet Explorer seems to handle both types of
slash just fine, but all other browsers expect just the forward slash,
and thus ends up making back requests when presented with backslash
path delimiters.

The end result is the index pages are viewable, but without any CSS
styling of any kind.  And trying to follow links from the index pages
to individuals, sources, places, etc..., results in HTTP 404 errors.

I suspect the fix is easy, especially if the fix is something specific
in NarrativeWeb.  If some global function that concatenates paths and
filenames is involved, then it may be slightly trickier.  But we'd
almost need a Windows developer to come forward with the fix.

Stéphane

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[E.Genssmann]

Hi Steve,
please have a look at the html-source. There are some occurences where backslash "\" is used within path definition to components that should be displayed on the page, other occurence use slash "/".
I assume the backslash comes from path variables as they are differently on windows environment compared to others.
MS Explorer handles path correctly with both special characters (with naviagtion of html on local disk as well as on a web server) while other browsers run into error messages and can't display that sources - thus making the entire web site useless for users of other browsers

Regards,
Eckhard

 

steve_geo wrote:

Hi Eckhard,

I am pushing this over to the Gramps DEV list.(seems you're subscribed
to that list also)

As I don't believe the people who can help you are monitoring the
Windows list.

Am I correct in saying the problem is not when navigating the html on
you own hard disk, but once you publish it on a web server?

Steve

E.Genssmann wrote:
> I was hoping that this issue was solved with new version 3.1.2 -
> unfortunately it is not!
>
> Navweb still confuses "\" and "/" within websites created by Gramps on
> Windows. This means that I still can't update my website as there are some
> users with other browsers but MS Explorer.
> How are other windows-user handle website-creation?
>
> Thanks for your support,
> Eckhard
>
>
>
>
> E.Genssmann wrote:
>  
>> Just to let you know: In case you have published Narrative Website
>> created on Windows environment, you should be aware of a severe issue:
>>
>> The websites can be viewed  by MS Explorer-Users only! Guests on your
>> website using other browsers (e.g. Firefox) will see error messages but
>> can't see your data. Reason: Navweb created on Windows plattform seems
>> to confuse "/" and "\" in path for media files or other references.
>>
>> I've submitted a bug-report  
>> http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=2914 and hope that it
>> will be fixed soon.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eckhard
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial
>> Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited
>> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing
>> server and web deployment.
>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects
>> _______________________________________________
>> Gramps-windows mailing list
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>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-windows
>>
>>
>>    
>
>  
   

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