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one person's help needed
Posted by: abevilac
Date: December 14, 2009 02:06PM
Would someone please try to open this website for me? It was made by one of my students and I just need to check that it opens properly. It should not go to an IU mypage error page. Thanks.

[mypage.iu.edu]
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: gregmcm
Date: December 14, 2009 02:10PM
Works
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Fritz
Date: December 14, 2009 02:10PM
seems to, but there's tis message

"You are forbidden to view the requested page (Error 403)."
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: lafinfil
Date: December 14, 2009 02:11PM
works in Safari & Firefox here


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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: GeneL
Date: December 14, 2009 02:11PM
This is what I found:

Personal Home Pages at Indiana University

You are forbidden to view the requested page (Error 403).
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: decay
Date: December 14, 2009 02:14PM
Personal Home Pages at Indiana University

You are forbidden to view the requested page (Error 403).


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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: testcase
Date: December 14, 2009 02:16PM
Opened OK on my iPhone 3G. The one link I tried opened OK too.
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: billb
Date: December 14, 2009 02:20PM
I can get to all the user homepages (106 for the letter 'z' )

except for the message :"You are forbidden to view the requested page (Error 403)."
all the links seem to work fine.
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: abevilac
Date: December 14, 2009 02:24PM
So, I think you are all looking at the red / blue page that is IU's error 403 page. Did anyone see something else? It's supposed to be her own page. I have no idea what it's supposed to look like.

Thanks.
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: kj4btkljv
Date: December 14, 2009 02:28PM
Looks like a generic error page to me. No content besides school-generated stuff.

Jeff
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Doc
Date: December 14, 2009 02:30PM
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Seacrest
Date: December 14, 2009 02:40PM
"You are forbidden to view the requested page (Error 403)."

Maybe the (actual) page is viewable only from within the University's network?




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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Seacrest
Date: December 14, 2009 02:42PM
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Seacrest
"You are forbidden to view the requested page (Error 403)."

Maybe the (actual) page is viewable only from within the University's network?

[mypage.iu.edu]

Most pages there I've tried are viewable.
The user has set his/her bits to be unseen.




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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: RgrF
Date: December 14, 2009 02:56PM
Same as above on Camino.


"Who's more foolish - the fool or the fool that follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: TLB
Date: December 14, 2009 04:06PM
chmod needed
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: lafinfil
Date: December 14, 2009 04:10PM
My bad - didn't notice it was the error page

:-(


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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: abevilac
Date: December 14, 2009 04:54PM
Shall I flunk her??? chmod needed is my guess too. I'll give her 3 more days...
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: timg
Date: December 14, 2009 05:10PM
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abevilac
Shall I flunk her??? chmod needed is my guess too. I'll give her 3 more days...

Is she cute?
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Doc
Date: December 14, 2009 07:13PM
There's no hebutler turning up in the index by name (assuming that "Butler" is the last name). It looks like there's not even an account set up yet.

Perhaps you should direct her to the help-pages.

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Log in with your Network ID and follow the instructions for creating a Mercury account. Your account should be available within an hour after you create it.
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: abevilac
Date: December 14, 2009 08:16PM
This is a distance class so I never actually see any of them; I just asked her to call me and we had a talk. I think her problem [besides not purchasing the book and going through all of the homework assignments] was that she named the file "webpage.1_files.htm" I thought that was some sort of default name for the folder.
None of my students are listed in the index and they have all [save this one] been successful in publishing their websites -- maybe the index isn't updated often...

thanks again for your help.
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Doc
Date: December 14, 2009 09:11PM
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abevilac
she named the file "webpage.1_files.htm..."

So, she never made an "index.html" or "home.html" page? That's a problem right there. How's a web browser supposed to find the start page if it's got the wrong name?
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Seacrest
Date: December 14, 2009 09:23PM
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Doc
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abevilac
she named the file "webpage.1_files.htm..."

So, she never made an "index.html" or "home.html" page? That's a problem right there. How's a web browser supposed to find the start page if it's got the wrong name?

that's not the web browser's job, it's the server's.




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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Doc
Date: December 14, 2009 09:37PM
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Seacrest
that's not the web browser's job, it's the server's.

:::sigh:::

Okay.

With her use of that kind of naming convention, how's the server supposed to locate the directory index?
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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Seacrest
Date: December 14, 2009 10:19PM
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Doc
With her use of that kind of naming convention, how's the server supposed to locate the directory index?

How do I know?
Web servers can be configured all kind of ways.
Note that the server they're using utilizes custom pages that override the standard error pages ( 401, 403, 404, etc ).
She could name the page anything she wants, as long as she submits the proper URL to the instructor, then it would work.
The problem is, she didn't complete the assignment correctly, and she didn't check her work, not simply that she named her folder/files wrong.




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Re: one person's help needed
Posted by: Doc
Date: December 14, 2009 10:21PM
> She could name the page anything she wants, as long as
> she submits the proper URL to the instructor, then it
> would work.

The instructor was the OP. If he was also the admin, he'd know what was in her directory.
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