[thelist] PWS rant
Rudy_Limeback at maritimelife.ca
Rudy_Limeback at maritimelife.ca
Thu Oct 26 14:56:16 CDT 2000
working on some updates to my personal site (on my lunch hour, but don't
tell my employer, 'cause i was using my company computer) when i hit
another one of those wonderful technology brick walls that we love so much
i use server side includes extensively in my pages, so i wanted to install
Personal Web Server in order to test my revised pages
it took a while to find PWS (the microsoft site isn't as bad as some
people make it out to be, but it's bad enough)
once downloaded and installed, PWS worked pretty good -- i can enter
either http://127.0.0.1/ or http://rudy-limeback/ and both internet
explorer and netscape are served pages out of the wwwroot directory with
no problem
but the #include's didn't work
i selected the Help menu in order to look up the documentation, but the
first thing i had to do was install something called "Table of Contents"
which came with the following warning:
Caution: Microsoft Corporation asserts that this content is
safe. You should only install/view this content if you trust
Microsoft Corporation to make that assertion.
after i finished wiping up the soup i accidentally sprayed all over my
screen when i read that gem, i carried bravely on and ended up with a
cutesy browser window that had basically a tree structure like you see in
a windows Help file except this was in the left frame of a web page, it
was supposed to show you web pages of documentation in the right frame
okay, let's have a look at the #include documentation -- whups, page not
found!
do i really want to re-install PWS? i 'm *sure* i checked the box to
install the documentation
ah, the hell with it
i have a secret weapon, called Search & Replace (by funduc software --
http://funduc.com/search_replace.htm)
i will go through and physically replace each #include line with the
appropriate lines of included text *in every htm file*
and when i'm ready to ftp up to my server, i'll just run S&R again to
reverse the effect
takes two minutes, whereas this PWS bullshit already took an hour and a
half and got me nowhere
whew, i feel better
<tip type="evolt spotting">
Experience the history of the web!
http://www.dejavu.org/
- has a history section
- has an online emulator for lynx, mosaic, etc.
- mentions browsers.evolt.org as the place to get "almost all old
browsers"
</tip>
rudy
r937.com
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