[Jmol-users] strange internet explorer behavior

[Samuel F. <sam...@ya...>]

Hi Miguel (and others),

Thanks for your help.  The jmol cgi script is now running on my machine. =


It has a strange issue when I view it on internet explorer, though.  I =
pull
up the cgi script:  =
http://dev.molmovdb.org/cgi-bin/jmol.cgi?mid_=3Dhivprot ..
and it works.  Then I click the refresh button and the viewer window
disappears.  On another machine, the viewer window doesn't show up at =
all,
even initially.  Does anyone know of special problems with internet =
explorer
to watch out for?

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: jmo...@li...
[mailto:jmo...@li...] On Behalf Of Miguel
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 6:01 PM
To: jmo...@li...
Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] making jmol cgi script?

> I'm trying to make a jmol page using cgi rather than static html.

Other people have this running successfully.

> In the
> past, I've had my cgi script write an html document with jmol content =
to
> my
> htdocs directory.  Then the user would be redirected to the html =
document.
> However it would be more elegant to have the cgi script spit out jmol
> content directly.  When I try to do this, though, I just get a little =
icon
> showing a page with a folded corner and a red "X", instead of a jmol
> image.
>
> Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

Could be any number of things.

> I have the jmol directories where they
> should be.

I strongly suspect that the problem is with your directories.

An important thing to look for is whether or not you are trying to read
files out of your cgi-bin directory. Web servers usually will not allow
you to do this. And you need to get your data directories correct.

Some pointers:
 - look at the access log on the web server
 - look at the error log on the web server
 - if you are using a cgi-bin directory, then you problably (depending
upon your web server configuration) cannot put Jmol.js and/or data =
and/or
script files in the cgi-bin directory.
 - use Mozilla with the JavaScript console turned on
 - do view -> source on the client to see that the code looks correct.
 - remember that all directory paths in the html that is generated and =
in
the calls to Jmol.js routines are from the perspective of the browser =
...
completely independent of the web server.
 - try enabling cgis in someplace other than cgi-bin and see if you can
get it running from there. If so, then you do not have directory access
configured correctly.


Miguel



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