I have added chris's latest comments into the proxy host entry in the OpenLayers FAQ. <br>
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Please see <br>
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<a href="http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#ProxyHost">http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#ProxyHost</a><br>
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for a thorough walkthrough of setting up a proxyhost<br>
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hope that helps!<br>
erik<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christopher Schmidt</b> <<a href="mailto:crschmidt@metacarta.com">crschmidt@metacarta.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:27:12PM +0100, Mark de Blois wrote:<br>> Hi all,<br>> I am trying to incorporate external GeoRSS feeds into an internal demo<br>> application but I am struggling with the proxy. With the sample script
<br>> provided I am not able to get it to work. I keep getting an 'Unhandled<br>> request return Not found error. I have a feeling it is not<br>> passing/returning the right URL. I am not a star with<br>> JavaScript(debugging) so any help on how to solve this issue would be
<br>> very much appreciated. Or seeing a real life example would help out a<br>> lot.<br><br>A link to an HTML page where this problem is presenting itself would be<br>the most helpful information to proceed in debugging this issue.
<br><br>It sounds like OpenLayers.ProxyHost is not pointing to the location<br>where your proxy script is located. For the standard apache<br>configuration, you would need to place proxy.cgi into your<br>/usr/lib/cgi-bin/ directory, and ten set:
<br> OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=";<br><br>If you have done something like this, you should be able to visit:<br><br> <a href="http://YourDomain.example.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi">http://YourDomain.example.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi
</a><br><br>The resulting content at that page should be the <a href="http://openlayers.org">openlayers.org</a> website.<br><br>If you get a 404 error instead, either the proxy script is not in the<br>right location, or your webserver is not configured correctly.
<br><br>Again, having a link to a page which demonstrates this problem would be<br>helpful in working to debug the problem.<br><br>Regards,<br>--<br>Christopher Schmidt<br>MetaCarta<br>_______________________________________________
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