Re: Can anyone explain this stuff in my apache error_log please

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:01:33PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
>     [Wed Oct 10 08:55:43 2007] [error] [client 193.128.168.194] fullPath is  /home/chris/webdev/info/
>     [Wed Oct 10 08:55:43 2007] [error] [client 193.128.168.194] editFile is /home/chris/webdev/info//index.rst
>     [Wed Oct 10 08:55:50 2007] [error] [client 193.128.168.194] fullPath is  /home/chris/webdev/info/Home/index, referer: http://home.isbd.net/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi
>     [Wed Oct 10 08:55:50 2007] [error] [client 193.128.168.194] editFile is /home/chris/webdev/info/Home/index.rst, referer: http://home.isbd.net/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi
> 
> What's the producer/cause of those second two lines with "referer:"
> in them?  As far as I know my plugin python is only writing the first
> two and somehow python/apache/pyblosxom is adding the second two.
> More to the point why are the values of 'fullPath' and 'editFile'
> different?  The second two lines are followed by a full error traceback 
> of several lines to an error that relates to the 'wrong' values of 
> fullPath and editFile.
> 
Well I'm still interested in why the above lines appear but see below
for a partial explanation/fix (my fault).

> 
> This may relate to another problem I have, the plugin works perfectly
> when run using firefox on my home system (i.e. where pyblosxom and the
> apache server are) but is failing when run using Firefox from a remote
> system, though it's still a Fedora 7 system.  I.e. when I run my
> pyblosxom plugin using the browser at home I only see the first two of 
> the lines shown above in the apache error_log, it's only when I run
> it from a remote firefox that the second two lines and the error
> traceback appear (and pyblosxom diaplays an error message rather 
> than the expected page).

I wasn't comparing like with like, I'd forgotten to add the 'wiki' to
the URL when trying remotely, i.e. on the remote system I was
viewing:-

    http://home.isbd.net/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi/

and on my home system I had been viewing:-

    http://home.isbd.net/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi/wiki

and my plugin is specifically for use with Will's wiki plugin and was
getting a little confused when being used with the straight pyblosxom
blog URL.  I'll need to add a few lines of code to sort that out.

Sorry for the noise folks!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green

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