Impact

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1 decade ago by TonyBalony

Ok..thought I would edit my original post.

So it seems although I have impact in the same folder as my server ( using Xampp ) when I run localhost/index.html in my browser it says "it works", however if I try to run localhost/weltmeister.html I get an error saying Object not found ( although the file is in the same folder as the index.html file. I've tried this with the various demo downloads like Pong.

Tried looking through Xampp settings, thought I might be able to find a setting or something. Can't seem to find any answer by searching forums.

Any suggestions?

1 decade ago by gxxaxx

Take a look in the xampp/index.html file.

If it looks like the following:

<html>
	<head>
		<title></title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<h1>It works!</h1>
	</body>
</html>

Then you are seeing the xampp "It works" not the impactjs.

If you followed the standard instructions for installations then you should find a folder in your root named impact.

Try loading into the browser a url like: /localhost/impact/

See what you get from that.

You should see a different screen than the previous "It works"

Then try /localhost/impact/weltmeister.html

Regards,
Claude

1 decade ago by TonyBalony

Thanks for your repsonse Claude, however doing it the way the standard instructions are gives me error messages saying that object was not found, which is why I tried localhost/index.html. And now that I have it working I understand and see the difference. What I did is found an instructional link on setting up Virtual Servers with Xampp ( http://sawmac.com/xampp/virtualhosts/ ) . So essentially what I did is opened up the "host" file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc . Since I like to keep projects in their own folders I added a list of unique names to this "host" file which ended up looking like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.1 Impact.local

127.0.0.1 Impact_Drop.local

127.0.0.1 Impact_Physics.local

127.0.0.1 Impact_JumpRun.local

127.0.0.1 Impact_BioLab.local

127.0.0.1 Impact_Pong.local


Then I opened up "httpd-vhosts.conf" in C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra and added ( with the exception of the pre-existing first 2 lines in the host file) , added the following section for each of the above projects( each one modified to reflect the names and placement of corresponding files):

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "C:\DATA\I\Impact\Pong"
ServerName Impact_Pong.local
<Directory "C:\DATA\I\Impact\Pong">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

So after doing all of the above I would get the desired results. So in the case of typing in Impact.local in my browser I would get "It works" version displayed as intended and not just the plain text version when only using the open file function of the browser on the index.html file in the Impact folder.

However, I still could not get the browser to "point" ( through the server) to any of the Weltmeister.html files, but discovered that I could add that to a config Xampp file which in turn lets Xampp serve weltmeister.html files.

The file I modified is "httpd.conf" and is located in C:\xampp\apache\conf

The place in the file I add "weltmeister.html" was about at the 244th line of httpd.conf;
...
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.asp index.shtml index.html index.htm weltmeister.html \
default.php default.pl default.cgi default.asp default.shtml default.html default.htm \
home.php home.pl home.cgi home.asp home.shtml home.html home.htm
</IfModule>

...

So as it is now I still can't access the weltmeister html files as is ( since in this method it seems the order in which it is situated prevents it from being accessed because index.html is listed first before weltmeister.html is. To test this I temporarily moved the index.html file to another folder and when I typed Impact.local in my broswer the server did bring up the weltmeister.html file, so now I know it works.

So having not even started programming with impact yet, I do not know if I really need to have the server bring up welmeister.html, but at least I now have a better understanding of what is happening with the server and how to use it better. The tutorial didn't seem to give an idea of what is going on, not to suggest it should have, since it didn't work for me. Hopefully this will help others who might run into the same problem. I wonder if that perhaps since the tutorial the newer versions of Xampp default settings prevent the turorial from working as intended?
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