I have been trying to do the XPage tutorial specified in the help file of Lotus notes 8.5 beta version.
The application is created in local and uses the local web preview feature. But when I tried to open anything in IE, the page get error and throw three lines in server console
diiop server connected 127.0.0.1
diiop server disconnected 127.0.0.1
HTTTP Web Server: Lotus otes Exception - File does not exist(/…)
I tried for few more application in local all shows the similar error ? But when I replicate this to server. Its all works fine, and when I came back to application in local it works in web browser also with the url: http://localhost/…
My Lotus Notes Domino details
Release 8.5
Revision 20081027.1445(Build v85_10262008)
Standard Configuration
I installed utitlity server while insatlled the server. Is there any problem with installation or is there anything more to do get the local web preview to work fine.
DDE web preview can look at an nsf in either the Notes client data directory or in a Domino server’s data directory.
Since you have console messages like this: “diiop server connected 127.0.0.1” you must be running a Domino server on the same machine where you are running DDE.
On DDE’s open application dialog, “local” means look in the Notes client data directory. If you mean to open something in the Domino data directory, you will need to enter the server’s name, or ip.
So DDE had an nsf in the notes data directory open. Then you chose to preview on web - DDE looks at existing processes to see if http was already running before trying launch an http process in preview mode (a special mode to deal with the lack of a server names.nsf in a client install).
But the server’s http process is up and running, so DDE proceeds to the next step and passes along the preview url to a browser - which hits the server’s http task, which looks in the server’s data directory, and so you get the error.
So to fix this, shut down your Domino server, or move your database to the server data directory and open that in DDE before previewing.
thanx for the reply. You were right, I was trying to see the local web preview of database reside in notes data directory at the same time running the domino server and it gives me error page and leave error message in server console saying file does not exist.
I stopped the http server by quit command in server console and then it gives me the correct result.