Re: URI in request is not valid -- WEB400

Terry,

The book "Professional Apache 2.0" (it's out of print but you can find used) is a wonderful resource (SSL setup and the options available for basic authentication are different; everything else is the same for the version we're using). It also shows you various ways to do things and does a good job of covering when it's appropriate to do things a certain way. It also has a lot of reference material included (things like regular expressions and HTTP information) that will save some time since you don't have to go searching for them.

When I first started using the Apache based server, it saved me a lot of time. IBM's documentation is okay for reference but is horrible for someone new to the subject and the migration wizard just made a mess of things. The documentation at http://httpd.apache.org is better for just getting started but doesn't really cover enough of the basics (at least not in an organized way) that you need to know to run a web server.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terry Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:43 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] URI in request is not valid

Brad & Matt,
Once again you have saved me from myself! When I changed the
DocumentRoot directive in the config file, everything started to show
up.

I guess the next thing I need to do is find some sort of "Apache server
for dummies" book and read up on what all the different directives do.

Thanks again to both of you.

Terry Anderson
Programming Manager
Citation Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bradley V. Stone
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:18 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] URI in request is not valid

Terry,

No doubt you have a logical path to your files/images and
not the "actual" path. Most often this is set using the
DocumentRoot directive... ie...

DocumentRoot /www

Now, if I store my images in /www/images then I would refer
to the image as
this:

<img src="/images/image.gif">

I would NOT use:

<img src="/www/images/image.gif">

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Terry Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:49 AM
To: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] URI in request is not valid

Greetings List,
I am getting the following error when trying to display an

image on my

web page using CGIDEV2:

URI in request GET /www/citcgidev/backg.gif HTTP/1.1 is

not valid. I

am guessing that the error means that the image can't be found.
However, when I run the command: wrklnk

'/www/citcgidev/backg.gif'

from the command line, I go right to the file on the IFS.

Here is the line from my HTML:

<body text="black" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="maroon"
background="/www/citcgidev/backg.gif">

According to the HTML book I have, this should work. Can

someone tell

me what I am doing wrong? Do I need to add something to the config
file that tells CGIDEV2 where images are stored?

Thanks,

Terry Anderson
Programming Manager
Citation Corporation
Switchboard 1.251.867.5481 ext 212
Direct Line 1.251.809.2312
Fax 251.867.0525
Cell 1.251.363.4975

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