Re^2: CGI::Application run mode does not recognize external css

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Re^3: CGI::Application run mode does not recognize external css by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 19, 2010 at 14:53 UTC
Well, if you refuse to show the HTML generated for the first solution that works, and the HTML generated for the second solution that fails, then it will be quite hard to determine why the one works while the other does not. My guess is that the URL does not work, at least `http://www.mystyle.com/styles/style.css` does not work for me. But feel free to try other approaches to finding out why this does not work.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: CGI::Application run mode does not recognize external css by Prat824 (Acolyte) on Apr 19, 2010 at 15:13 UTC
sorry about that.. here is the source `<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC"-// W3C//DTD Xhtml 1.0 Strict//EN"" http://www.w +3.org/TR/xhtml2/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Tue, 04 Dec 1993 21:29:02 GMT" +> <LINK REL=StyleSheet href="file:///C:/Program Files/Apache Softwar +e Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-bin/myapp/templates/basic.css" TYPE="text/ +css" MEDIA=screen> <title> Browse </title> </head> ... ...` [download] above code, when generated through run-mode does not recruit the external css, whereas if I copy this and paste it to a dummy html file, then the css works fine. Whats bothering me is why the browser treats the same html content in 2 files (one generated melodramatically, other created manually) differently? Sorry if I missed out something please let me know and I'll post. Thanks	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: CGI::Application run mode does not recognize external css by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 19, 2010 at 14:56 UTC
Have you checked your webservers logs? I doubt it's serving this css file, and in your test case your browser is just picking it up from the path in the html.	[reply]
Re^4: CGI::Application run mode does not recognize external css by Prat824 (Acolyte) on Apr 19, 2010 at 15:24 UTC
Hi Here is what I got from the error logs.. Can you suggest what might be going wrong here? Thanks Mon Apr 19 11:22:50 2010 error client 127.0.0.1 script not found or unable to stat: C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-bin/myapp/basic.css, referer: http://localhost/cgi-bin/myapp/simple.pl	[reply]
Re^5: CGI::Application run mode does not recognize external css by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 19, 2010 at 15:31 UTC
This isn't a perl issue, or an issue relating to CGI::Application. I'd simply replace this path you assign to the template variable with one relative to your myapp site, that your apache configuration will be able to locate and serve. You should spend some time reading about HTML, the apache documentation, and Ovid's CGI course (thanks to jdporter for hosting this) to learn how to debug such problems.	[reply]
Re^5: CGI::Application run mode does not recognize external css by rowdog (Curate) on Apr 19, 2010 at 22:27 UTC
As marto pointed out, you need to fix the URL to your CSS file. I suppose your App might work if you double click the CGI (windows right?) but when it's run by a real web server, no major browser (in default configuration) will allow a remote file to access a local file. See the spec at HTML 4.01, look around for HTML tutorials, and/or buy a book on HTML.	[reply]