[plt-scheme] Re: Can't get the web-server going

Just a hunch, but I suspect Windows is not letting you "listen" no  
matter what port number you specify.  You can try going back to the  
default configuration (temporarily) and using different port numbers  
like this:

$PLTHOME/bin/web-server -p PORT_NUMBER

Meanwhile I'll copy my PLT web from Mac OS X to Windows XP and see if  
Windows adds any barriers.

Hmm, that message, (my caps) "AN ADDRESS incompatible with the  
requested protocol" makes me wonder what address the system call is  
seeing.  I googled that string and saw you are not alone in your  
Windows woes.  See:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Win_Security/Q_21266448.html
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html

This page:  http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic16323.html
offered this advice:  Netsh winsock reset; reboot; reinstall TCP/IP  
(ugh)
Also: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/118679.html

The above are related to Windows Firewall, detecting/disabling  
spyware.  Good luck.

Geoffrey
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Geoffrey S. Knauth | http://knauth.org/gsk


On Jan 17, 2006, at 04:15, Glenn Ambrose wrote:

> Thank you Jay for responding.
>
> (Yes, you could send the configuration-table and what command you  
> are running.
>
> Something I think of immediately: You're changing a custom
> configuration-table but you're not passing it to the web-server start
> binary.)
> This is the configuration-table:
>
> ((port 8042) <-- This is the only change I made, from 80 to 8042.
> (max-waiting 40)
>  (paths
>      (configuration-root "conf")
>      (host-root "default-web-root")
>      (log-file-path "log")
>      (file-root "htdocs")
>      (servlet-root ".")
>      (password-authentication "passwords"))))
> (virtual-host-table))
>
>
> tcp-listen: listen on 8042 failed (An address incompatible with the  
> requested protocol was used.; errno=10047)
>
> Before I made the change I was getting:
>
> tcp-listen: listen on 80 failed (An address incompatible with the  
> requested protocol was used.; errno=10047)
>
> Since the error message has noted the change from 80 to 8042 can I  
> assume the web-server start binary has also noted the change?
>
> I tried to get it going both by clicking on web-server.exe and by  
> entering
> plt\web-server at the command prompt. Each time the error message  
> above pops up.
>
>
> And thank you Noel for responding.
>
> ( Can you give us a bit more information?  For example, what
> URL were you accessing?  What browser?
>
> You could try the instaweb package -- then the
> configuration should be correct and hence one potential
> problem removed. )
>
> I'm using Firefox 1.5 and the URL http://localhost but nothing  
> happens. I wasn't surprised as the problem has already occured with  
> the server not finding the port (or whatever it is doing or not  
> doing).
>
> If I put in the url http://drscheme.org:80 then it works fine. It  
> doesn't work with 8042 though.
>
> You mentioned running instaweb. At the moment I haven't learned how  
> to make a servlet or to run a servlet so instaweb is getting ahead  
> of me.
>
> To give you some background. I am a high school teacher (biology/ 
> chemistry note, no IT) and I thought it would be nice to put up  
> some information for my students to be able to access at home  
> (which I did). I learned HTML and CSS. Then I thought it would be  
> nice if they could test themselves. Now on top HTML and CSS I need  
> to learn to PHP so that the students have their results recorded,  
> SQL so that there is something into which to record their results  
> and RDF so that the information can be organised. Or I could just  
> learn scheme and here I am at the beginning of this journey.
>
> This message is very long. Congradulations if you made it this far.
>
> Cheers
> Glenn.
>
>
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