Cannot view page in Netscape!

[calista]

OK, I'm trying to make my intranet site NS compatible (grumble,grumble). But, so far, I haven't been able to see just how bad it looks because I can't get even my home page to open in NS on my localhost. I get a variety of errors depending on what I try. I've gotten "Page not found", if I try to open it from Communicator and tell it to open in Navigator, it opens a temp file in Cold Fusion Studio. If I try to view the production site through, (which loads noticably slower in NS) I get to my Default.htm OK, and that page has a link to my intranet home page. When I link to the home page, I get stuck on the login screen (which, BTW, displays only a one character password field). I've gone in through IE and logged in, which sets a cookie, so I don't have to log in again. Even with the cookie set, I get stuck on the login screen. If I click on the links for "Forgot Password" or "Add User", I get "Page not found". In the address bar, it looks like it's trying to open my style sheet file. AAARRRRRGHHHH!!! Can anybody point me in the right direction? Please? I'm not sure what to try next.

FYI - my workstation has CF 5.0 and PWS(which I suspect may be the culprit)running under NT 4.0. My production server is CF 5.0, Windows Server 2000. Calista :-X
Jedi Knight,
Champion of the Force

 

[iza]

if ie finds your page, ns should !!! ns has trouble with the dom, not with the aliases !!!!!! also, ns is more strict
so if you include a file and ns can't find that file (or is not allowed to read/execute it) it will return a 404
so check, double check all the included files and if they are reachable - (when ie doesn't find an included file it just says NOTHING - i don't think it's better either tho)

 

[calista]

Thanks, iza. I have links to style sheets in the head of nearly every page, and I CFINCLUDE a menu table on almost every page. (Which is how I got away from frames) How do I confirm they are reachable and readable/executable? My path names are stored in application variables. Any insight greatly appreciated. Calista :-X
Jedi Knight,
Champion of the Force

 

[iza]

just look at the url netscape tells you it doesn't find !!!

 

[kbrown]

I have found that IE supports blank spaces in cfm. However, netscape does not support the blank spaces. In order to get netscape to view your pages you must have underscores _ in your cfm scripts. I hope this helps.


keith

 

[iza]

is it working now ? what was the problem ? how did you fix it ?

 

[calista]

Ooopps! iza, I'm not sure which you were looking at. No, I haven't spent too much time on this lately. Just yesterday, someone showed what the pages look like in Netscape. (not sure what version he has) It wasn't as bad as I expected. My pages mostly consist of a header and a footer generated by Application.cfm and OnRequestEnd.cfm and the space in between is two nested tables side by side (to avoid the use of frames). The left hand table holds the menu and the right hand table is the main page data. The problems I saw were that the menu table was at the top left corner overlapping the header and my style sheet formating was not applied (not all of it, anyway) I haven't tried it yet, but the solution to the positioning problem may be to put the header in a table above my nested tables.

What my real problem is, is setting up my own machine and Cold Fusion Studio to work with Netscape. I read the documentation on how to do that, and apparently, you have to edit the registry to use Netscape as an internal browser. Our helpful IT staff has disabled that function on our workstations. I'll play around with it a little more. Calista :-X
Jedi Knight,
Champion of the Force

 

[iza]

!! your IT staff loves helping you to work efficiently )) !!
i was just wondering if you finally found out which included page was the responsible for "page not found" - apparently you did manage to ....
anyway, less and less people are using nn<6 (but me ....), so you can use this as an &quot;excuse&quot; to explain your boss it's not worth the cost ....