[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers and (GeoRSS) proxy issue

[Erik Uzureau]

I have added chris's latest comments into the proxy host entry in the
OpenLayers FAQ.

Please see

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#ProxyHost

for a thorough walkthrough of setting up a proxyhost

hope that helps!
erik

On 10/24/06, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:27:12PM +0100, Mark de Blois wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am trying to incorporate external GeoRSS feeds into an internal demo
> > application but I am struggling with the proxy. With the sample script
> > provided I am not able to get it to work. I keep getting an 'Unhandled
> > request return Not found error. I have a feeling it is not
> > passing/returning the right URL. I am not a star with
> > JavaScript(debugging) so any help on how to solve this issue would be
> > very much appreciated. Or seeing a real life example would help out a
> > lot.
>
> A link to an HTML page where this problem is presenting itself would be
> the most helpful information to proceed in debugging this issue.
>
> It sounds like OpenLayers.ProxyHost is not pointing to the location
> where your proxy script is located. For the standard apache
> configuration, you would need to place proxy.cgi into your
> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ directory, and ten set:
>   OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=";
>
> If you have done something like this, you should be able to visit:
>
>   http://YourDomain.example.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi
>
> The resulting content at that page should be the openlayers.org website.
>
> If you get a 404 error instead, either the proxy script is not in the
> right location, or your webserver is not configured correctly.
>
> Again, having a link to a page which demonstrates this problem would be
> helpful in working to debug the problem.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
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