[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers.ProxyHost

[Ivan Grcic]

hi, try
chmod +x proxy.cgi

cheers

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:59 PM, alyssa wright <apw217 at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
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Ivan Grcic