[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers.ProxyHost

[alyssa wright]

hi all. 

with ivan's help i made some progress.  but i am still wondering if 
anyone can help me fully resolve my proxyhost.  i believe it's an 
apache/mac thing.  i've gotten an url for georss.html to run in safari, 
but not firefox. 

the error says: "uncaught exception: Access to restricted URI denied 
(NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI)"  in XMLHttpRequest.js. 
the xhr requests says 0. 

here's a run down of what i did:
1) i saved proxy.cgi into /Library/webserver/CGI-Executables
2) then i did the chmod +x proxy.cgi
3) i was working apache through mamp, which i think was a problem.  so i 
uninstalled mamp and i enabled websharing in the sharing preferences pane.
4) then i did http://localhost/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi which brought me to a 
local openlayers site in both firefox and safari (yay!!)
5) then i attempted to set the proxyhost variable.  after a couple 
different tries, i saw that setting it to: OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "";   
works in safari, but not in firefox.

once figured out, i promise to write the greatest how to ever.

thanks again,
alyssa.

Ivan Grcic wrote:
> 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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