[Web4lib] Mainmenu.html problems

[Cloutman, David]

I don't know anything about the internals of how an III server works,
but the 403 error code would possibly suggest that there is some sort of
server-side include that is failing. Do you have any files that the
server must read and parse before results are passed to the browser? If
so, try absolute paths to the included files in the _file_system_.

Alternately, another thing you might look at is the frameset file. You
call the various files using relative URLs, so perhaps when you call the
files from the aliased URL (the short one) the server cannot resolve the
paths to the various files specified in the frame tags. Have you tried:

<FRAMESET COLS="300,*" BORDER="0">
  <FRAME NAME="tabbar"
SRC="http://library.ccbcmd.edu:2082/screens/TabBar.html" NORESIZE
MARGINWIDTH="0" SCROLLING="yes">
  <FRAMESET ROWS="74,*" BORDER="0">
    <FRAME NAME="topbar"
SRC="http://library.ccbcmd.edu:2082/screens/TopBar.html" NORESIZE
MARGINWIDTH="0" SCROLLING="no">

    <FRAME NAME="mainbar"
SRC="http://library.ccbcmd.edu:2082/screens/MainBar.html" NORESIZE>
  </FRAMESET>
</FRAMESET>

That might fix your problem, though it wouldn't be my first guess.

I would strongly advise you to abandon the frames altogether, though. It
really is not considered a good practice these days.

- David

---
David Cloutman <dcloutman at co.marin.ca.us>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library 

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Riesner, Giles
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:32 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Mainmenu.html problems


I sent this to the III listserv, but figured I'd post it here as well to
see if any of the folks here had any ideas
since time is short for us on getting it working.  

We're in the process of re-designing our website and my boss wants to
use the mainmenu.html page as
our library web page with a stark version of opacmenu.html for our
catalog search page.

Our problem is that our new version of mainmenu.html displays fine if
you give a fully qualified path
to it, but not by just going straight to the library server. It's in 3
frames and only one of them displays; we
get 403's for the other 2 frames. We have a call in to III inquiring
about it, but so far no luck there.

We have the file loaded in staging and it's open so anyone can view it.
The url is:
http://library.ccbcmd.edu:2082  to see what doesn't work and
http://library.ccbcmd.edu:2082/screens/mainmenu.html  to see what it
SHOULD look like.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. We want to have it up and running
for the Fall semester
and that starts on August 25th for us, so we only have a few weeks to
get things working.

Thanks in advance.

--Giles Riesner

Giles W. Riesner Jr. 
Library Tech Support & Library System Manager
Community College of Baltimore Co.- Catonsville
800 S. Rolling Road
Baltimore, MD 21228  USA
Phone: 1-410-455-4245
Email:  griesner at ccbcmd.edu



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