You'll have to bear with my slightly on this, but please ask if I have left out any pertinent information. I have just taken over a project to create a dashboard for my team. This dashboard has been made using a niche third-party tool that nobody here will have used before. The third party tool auto-generates some code to display "markers" on a webpage. "Markers" being some proprietary code to query a database/apply custom styling etc.
I am trying to display a webpage within the page that has been generated, and I’d like to point this to a local webpage (ie on my C drive). If I pass it an absolute path, then this results in a warning in IE9 as I am mixing data sources - a https website pointing to a http web page. It will display after ignoring the warning, but my userbase is not comfortable enough with computers to ask them to do this.
I believe if I pass it a relative path then it should work, but I can’t find out what directory to base this path off and it doesn’t appear to be anywhere obvious. So, in my current page I have an image with the web address of : https://website:8443/websitereport/images/buttons/locked.gif. What I need to know is where the “websitereport/images” folder is stored so that I can put my webpage in there to give the webpage a relative path. The HTML for this image is :
<img id="dvp_locationbar_lock" class="dvp_imagebutton" style="" dvp_title="ui.tip.lock-page" dvp_image="locationBarPageUnlockedImage" src="/websitereport/images/buttons/unlocked.gif" title="Lock this page">
What are my options for discovering where this folder is stored locally? I am running Apache Tomcat 7.0. It is not displaying if I use the path based off
C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\work\Catalina\websitereport
of
\websitereport\page.html
And I cannot find it anywhere obvious in the Apache folder. I have tried :
Searching - no results.
Using PHP to print the current working directory - cannot find out
where to edit the webpage.
Looking at images/information on the existing webpage. They all point
to folders I cannot find.
Inspecting with firebug.
In short, you can't rely on the files being on disk at all - they might be just contained in a *.war file, containing the whole application. Or they might be generated on-the-fly, despite the name sounding like an actual file.
Also, you should not arbitrarily write within a directory even if you find it (my closest guess would be tomcat's webapps/websitereport/ directory if it exists) because nobody will know that something changed during the time since last deployment. So, on the next update of the application, you'll end up overwriting all of your changes again. You typically change the underlying application and redeploy.
You might also find a few references in tomcat's conf/localhost/ directory or even in conf/server.xml, but it all depends on how your server was administered
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How do I find the filename of an website I am inspecting with Firebug? As example when I look on http://example.org/ I can view inspect the Element, I see the whole html structure but I didn`t find the filename. I am searching for index.html or something in that way. Maybe this is an analog question, but I am not sure, because he/she is working with php. LINK
I know there are some solutions with Dreamweaver or other tools but I am searching for an easy way to figure that out with Firebug or an free Browser Add-On. I Hope you have a solution for that.
The URL you entered is the one that usually returns the main HTML contents. Though on most pages nowadays the HTML is altered using JavaScript. Also, pages are very often dynamically generated on the server.
So, in most cases there is no static .html file.
For what it's worth, you can see all network requests and their responses within Firebug's Net panel.
Note that the URL path doesn't necessarily reflect a file path on the server's file system. It is depending on the server configuration, where a specific URL maps to in the file system. The simplest example is the index file that is automatically called when a domain is accessed. In the case of http://example.org the server automatically loads a file index.html in the file system, for example.
So, in order to get the file name on the file system, you need to either check the server configuration or the related access logs.
We are using FileZilla as out FTP. At the moment, I want to insert a script in the live index.html. Unfortunately, there is more than 1 index.html files on the ftp.
I was wondering how to pinpoint the exact one?
Is there a way to trace it back using just the Google Chrome Inspect Element?
Thank you in advance!
By "live", I presume you mean the one displayed when you visit a particular URL; and by multiple index.html files existing, you presumably mean that there are multiple folders on the FTP server, and you don't know which one maps to the URL in question.
The short answer is no: the mapping from URL to directory structure can be configured however the administrator of the server wants, and is completely invisible to web browsers, so there is no general rule to find out.
Barring luck in finding some clue, you have two ways to attack the problem:
Firstly, you can search for distinctive content: take a copy of all the folders you think might be relevant, then do a "find in files" for some text you know is in the target file but unlikely to be elsewhere. At worst, you might narrow down the list of possibilities before trying the next approach.
Secondly, you can use trial and error: make a list of candidate files, then edit each in turn to add an innocuous but visible piece of text. Then load the target URL and see if it changed; if not, revert the file and try the next.
Dear Haskell community I have written my first gui application and decided to use
threepenny-gui to do so.
The task is the following search the files in a given folder for matches and provide links to open those files. In addition I made nice parse and render function as the files (mostly) have a special formatting.
But now I have stumbled upon a problem - most browsers prohibit links to local files by href="file://localhost/home/user/folder/file.pdf" being opened, for security reasons, which I do understand and find completely sensible.
I tried to use href="./file.pdf" when the program and the file are in the same folder, which also doesn't seem to work.
The code of the whole application is available at github/epsilonhalbe, I run it in a folder and access it via a browser at localhost:100000
The HTTP server provided by threepenny-gui will serve up static content from the directory you specify in tpStatic. Put your files in that directory, and make your links' paths be relative to it, and you'll be good to go!
As of threepenny-gui-0.4.*, there are also two functions loadFile and loadDirectory that can be used to serve a local file or directory at an automatically generated URL. This can be useful if the tpStatic field is not enough.
I'm trying to setup and use Workspaces on Canary and I'm running into a few issues.
I understand that is still under development but could someone clarify these issues i'm having aren't or are related to the fact that its still under development?
Basically I setup a workspace in DevTools, locating the directory on my file system. Do I need to put anything in URL prefix and folder path input boxes? I've experimented leaving them blank, filling them in etc, but due to the lack of documentation I'm not sure what the correct input is.
Most of the time I run my sites through MAMP so will custom server names alter the configuration?
When I then open open the page I am editing, open the dev tools, make changes in the elements styles sidebar, it doesn't save any changes to the file on my system. But then when I go into the Sources tab and locate the workspace from the slide-out menu on the left, I can make changes to the files directly there. But I have to refresh the browser to see any changes.
I know something isn't quite right because when I watched Paul Irish's little demo a while back, he was making changes in the elements styles bar and seeing the results without refresh and changes being saved automatically. How can I get that this point?
Thanks in advance.
PS. If someone could add chrome-canary and chrome-workspaces tags, that would be great.
Once you have added a local filesystem, right-click a local file in your Sources panel and choose "Map to Network Resource", then select the network resource it corresponds to. That should set up the right mapping automatically.
URL prefix and folder path should correspond to the root of your app (the root url, on the server) and the root folder of your app in the file-system respectively. Alexander Pavlov is correct - if you set the network mapping for an individual file, and restart Dev Tools, these mappings will be made for the entire map, automatically as Dev tools makes the connections. In other words, do it for one file and you may not have to fill in those fields for the workspace yourself, Dev tools will do it automatically. Very handy.
via its tree view Gitweb is a great tool to browse through repository content at filesystem level. In case there are files inside the repository it's then easily possible to simply view/open them with your browser - just click them. Problem is if these are "html" files referencing other resources (pictures, javascript, etc.) a browser can't find them because although they are available in the repository, and also accessible via Gitweb's "tree" view - they aren't served at there expected location by the (Git)web server.
Stupid question: Is it any possible to configure Gitweb to do some sort of magic URL rewriting or whatever else to be able to fully view an html file with all its references in case the html file itself and all referenced content is present?
I actually don't think so.
Current work-around: At the moment I just clone/check-out the git repository into a directory served by a web server. Works, but whenever anyone wants to view an older commit-level I have to checkout another commit-id. The flexibility of just browsing through files AND commit levels is gone. Plus whoever wants to use this work-around must be able to use git. Also people must know another URL to actually see the content from the repository.
Question: Does anyone see a more flexible work-around?