This is our first post to this list, so please be gentle! 8-) We've successfully created a web site of sorts with Active 4D, and are developing it for a specific client. Since we have the proof of concept operational, we decided it was time to move it from our development Mac server to a Win2K server, since that is what the client is using.
The database (4D 2003.7) functions just fine -- we typically develop on the Mac and then move it to Windows for testing before installing updates on the client. That's been no problem. However, we have not been able to get Active 4D to cooperate, and we're at a loss to understand why. We copied all of the files, complete with directory structure, to the Windows box. On our "default.a4d" page, we first test for the existence of form variables to see if the user has already logged in. If so, we redirect the flow to other pages; if not, we present our own log in page in the rest of the .a4d document. When we log in to the account, our full page is correctly presented -- but that's where it ends (including our understanding). We had begun developing these pages some months ago, but then put it on the back burner until a pressing update was installed about a month ago. Now, as we're getting back to these pages, we're finding that we must have forgotten something -- or Active 4D operates differently on Mac and Windows. We present two form variables on the default.a4d page -- user name and password. It's our understanding that the flow of control is then passed to the "default.a4p" file, which calls our 4D method to validate the login. Unfortunately, it never calls the method (which has a TRACE in the first line). We've gone back to the version on the Mac, and it still works properly. Even though we have exactly the same configuration on the Windows side, all we get is a 404 error. We don't have a clue what file is being requested because we don't know what happens to the flow of control. We've searched every A4D document we have, and the characters "a4p" do not appear ANYWHERE. Maybe we've missed something else, but in any case, we're absolutely dead in the water. And we are one version behind on A4D -- the new version came out just after we had started with it, and we didn't want to spend TOO much time dealing with the changes. Once we're fairly well up to speed, it's almost certain that it will happen. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide! Tom Lundeen TLC - Tom Lundeen Consulting Prairie Solutions, Inc. _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
