Can she connect to www.playhousecomedy.com from that machine?

Is this the machine's IP address?

Have you rebooted the machine?

Chuck

On Jun 22, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Andrew R. Kinnie wrote:

> Well I have no explanation.
> 
> I thought it might be that apache needed to be restarted, so I did, then 
> opened a new tab and the old site appeared in a recently visited panel of 
> "Top Sites" (even though previously the new site was there), but I clicked on 
> it, and it still doesn't load.
> 
> I don't even know what files or configurations to change.  I vaguely remember 
> doing things in those files years ago, but not since.  No one else would have 
> done anything.  Perhaps the dynamic dns app isn't updating or something.
> 
> On Jun 22, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
> 
>> Apache is not running (probably not true)
>> or
>> Apache is not listening to www.playhousecomedy.com:80
>> or
>> they have blocked port 80
>> or 
>> that domain name is getting mapped to a different  machine
>> 
>> Someone changed something.
>> 
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 22, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Andrew R. Kinnie wrote:
>> 
>>> I am not at the server or even in the same state, so all I got was a 
>>> message that Safari cannot find the server.
>>> 
>>> Safari can’t open the page “http://www.playhousecomedy.com/” because the 
>>> server where this page is located isn’t responding.
>>> 
>>> On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What error message do you get from the URL that does not work?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 22, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Andrew R. Kinnie wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> All I did was have her:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. copy the existing database (it's Openbase)
>>>>> 2. change the name of the existing .woa
>>>>> 3. drop the new one into the same place
>>>>> 4. bounced the app in Monitor
>>>>> It didn't run.
>>>>> 5. change one table from the old name to the new name (user to person) . 
>>>>> . . I had forgotten to do that.
>>>>> It claimed that it ran, then threw an exception (still looking for 
>>>>> "user") then quit.
>>>>> 6. bounced the database in Openbase.
>>>>> Still didn't run.
>>>>> I then deleted the new .woa and the zipped version, and renamed the old 
>>>>> ones to the correct name.
>>>>> The old app ran and she could access it via the link.  No one can from 
>>>>> the outside.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The url on the server is 
>>>>> http://her-computer-name.local/cgi-bin/WebObjects/PlayhouseComedy.woa/1
>>>>> 
>>>>> This works on her machine.  It points to (via dynamic dns) a zoneedit 
>>>>> domain.  playhousecomedy.com is the domain.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This machine has been serving this site in this configuration for years, 
>>>>> and I didn't create it and have never had to touch it.  I did at one 
>>>>> point update WO to 5.4.3 and previously dropped in updated .woas (but not 
>>>>> since I've gone to eclipse and WOLips)
>>>>> 
>>>>> She's running Tiger client, and would be willing to have me SSH in . . . 
>>>>> if I knew how to open that up.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jun 22, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Andrew R. Kinnie wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So I made the terrible mistake of trying to deploy the new version of 
>>>>>>> my site, complete with migrations and D2W and it failed to do anything 
>>>>>>> (not quite true, it actually runs but immediately threw a JDBC 
>>>>>>> exception).  I then tried to redeploy the old version while I figured 
>>>>>>> this out.  (basically, I re-named the old .woa then renamed it back 
>>>>>>> after the failed deploy, then bounced the app in Monitor.)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The old app runs on the server.  She can click the link to load it, run 
>>>>>>> it, do what she needs to do, etc.  However, the outside world can't 
>>>>>>> access it.  No configuration files whatsoever were changed.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Anyone have any ideas what could cause the app to run and be usable on 
>>>>>>> the server, by a user of the server, but not by the outside world?  
>>>>>>> With no changes to the apache files or anything else?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Something changed.  Did you upgrade OS X?  What URL works?  What URL 
>>>>>> does not?  What error message do you get from the one that does not work?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Chuck
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Chuck Hill             Senior Consultant / VP Development
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall 
>>>>>> knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems.    
>>>>>> http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Chuck Hill             Senior Consultant / VP Development
>>>> 
>>>> Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall 
>>>> knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems.    
>>>> http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Chuck Hill             Senior Consultant / VP Development
>> 
>> Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall 
>> knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems.    
>> http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects
>> 
>> 
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>> 
> 

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Chuck Hill             Senior Consultant / VP Development

Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall 
knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems.    
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