[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers.ProxyHost

[alyssa wright]

Hi all,

I know it's been asked before, but after hitting my head against many a 
wall I humbly ask again:

I've been attempting to get the rss examples in general, and georss.html 
example, in particular to work with an HTTP URL. 

As instructed in the FAQ, I saved the proxy.cgi script from the svn 
download in a cgi-bin folder within my local examples folder.  Then I 
set the proxyhost variable to  OpenLayers.ProxyHost = 
"/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=";  When I navigate to the script 
(http://localhost:8888/openlayers/examples/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi) the 
resulting content is the text of the script and not the openlayers 
site.  (I do not know if this is a sign of a problem).

When I attempt to load the feed 
(http://www.greenwich-church.net/GeoRSS.xml) in georss.html, 
"GeoRss.xml" shows up as an overlay, but no data registers on the map.  
When I load this same feed on the openlayers version 
(http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/georss.html) "Greenwich Church" 
shows an an overlay along with corresponding data.

I have tried various combinations of where to save the proxy script 
(e.g., in the examples folder with the georss file and the variable as 
OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "";) and I have tried variations where the 
AddHandler section of my httpd.conf knows to call python (as instructed 
here http://gist.fas.harvard.edu/chgis/?p=14). 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best,
Alyssa.

PS.  I am not that interested in greenwich churches. . . it was just an 
easy test case.