Re: Axiom and Firefox (newbie)

Sergio,

>I've just installed Axiom (downloads/axiom-ubuntu-jan2009-bin.tgz) in
>/opt/Axiom/axiom/mnt/ubuntu as root and looked at the documentation.
>I've read section 1.1 of bookvol11.pdf, so I typed (as normal user, in my home 
>directory):
>
> export AXIOM=/opt/Axiom/axiom/mnt/ubuntu
> export PATH=$AXIOM/bin/lib:$AXIOM/bin:$PATH
> axiom -nox
>  -> )set mes auto off
>  -> )set out mathml on
>  -> axServer(8085,multiServ)$AXSERV
>
>and "listening on port 8085" appeared.
>Then I started my browser, Firefox. I went to
>
>  file:///opt/Axiom/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/doc/hypertext/rootpage.xhtml
>
>but that does not work, i.e. after:
>  Basic Commands -> Calculus -> Differentiate -> Continue
>nothing happens and the Error Console displays:
>
>"Security problem: contents in 
>file:///opt/Axiom/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/doc/hypertex/rootpage.xhtml cannot load 
>data from file:///opt/Axiom/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/doc/hypertex/127.0.0.1:8085."
>
>"Errore: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Access to restricted URI denied"  
>code: "1012" nsresult: "0x805303f4 (NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI)"  
>location: "file:///opt/Axiom/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/doc/hypertex/differentiate.xhtml 
>Line: 119"]

How very odd. It appears that you have some sort of security tool 
enabled (likely SELinux is enabled). The rules you have set up do
not permit a browser to access the page.

Is SELinux enabled?
Is there a way to convince it to let you access pages? 
I don't run SELinux so I can't easily reproduce this locally.

If you start Firefox (without running Axiom) can you get to the page:
file:///opt/Axiom/axiom/mnt/ubuntu/doc/hypertex/rootpage.xhtml
For the most part, the Axiom pages are just xhtml pages so this should work.


Tim