Re: [Lurker-users] Rendering blank pages

[Wesley W. T. <we...@te...>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:12:34PM -0500, Adrian B. Robert wrote:
> 
> I've successfully used lurker 0.1f on a linux box, but trying it on a
> Solaris 9 box it only renders blank pages (whether xml or html).  As far
> as I can tell all prerequisites (libxml,xslt, etc.) are installed and
> operational.

You are the first person I have heard back from trying this on Solaris.

... you know what that means right? ;-) You are the bleeding edge!

> Is there any way to turn on some sort of logging within
> lurker's binaries (cgi and lurkerd) themselves so that I can try to
> track down what is going on?

Hmmm. That would be a good feature. However, I haven't needed it before.

Here's what you can now:

There is a #define DEBUG in store/service.c which you can set to see if the
server is even seeing the request.

Recompile it and run it in non-detached mode. If you see it say stuff on
request, then the request is going through.

If not, you can try invoking the CGI directly, by doing:

export QUERY_STRING=
  (this must be set, but when set to the empty string denotes use default)
export REQUEST_URI=foo/splash/index.xml
mkdir splash
./lurker.cgi

then you will know if the web server is not invoking it.

> It seems like there must be some fundamental failure along the rendering
> chain, but I can't tell what...

Well, I would be happy to help debug this.

-- 
Wesley W. Terpstra <we...@te...>