Repost: Web Site Documents not working

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Hey Everyone,

Sorry for the repost but I have a real issue I can not resolve. Below is the original post.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/ShowMyTopicsAllFlatweb/9ca17481d12e8bf7852572c600720843?OpenDocument

I have three notes Databases that I want to web enable to the internet.

The first is our corporate site, the second is our corporate support site and both of these work today through an R5 virtual server.

I want to add an IT information portal that has some how to’s and instructional stuff as well as a form to open a trouble ticket.

At this time I wish to move to Internet Sites and away from the virtual servers. I have completed the following:

Enabled the setting in the server document to turn on the Sites feature.

Built an inbound SMTP site doc that is working.

Built the two site documents for my two sites.

Now, when I delete my virtual server entry all of my web stuff stops working except my inbound SMTP.

None of the sites populate in a browser. (I use Firefox)

I have stopped and started the http task when I make changes (Although if the site docs were working I don’t think that would be required) If I point the only virtual server entry to a different internal NSF that is the one that opens so I know the virtual server is still the default action and that is what is happening.

I have disable the site doc feature and re-enabled it yet I can not get this to work.

By all accounts my configuration should work based on what I have read here and in the Admin help but it does not.

Does anyone have any suggestions for things I can try to narrow down the scope or identify what is causing the break.

When ever I stop and start http I get the following error:

HTTP Server: Warning Internet Site Configuration view is enabled but does not contain any web sites.

This is however not true, it contains the three sites I outline above. Two HTTP sites and one SMTP inbound site.

Thanks for any and all insights!

Shawn

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Subject: Repost: Web Site Documents not working

Couple of things to check in the Web Internet site documents:

  • Organization field

The value in this field for each document should match the Organization (certifier) the Domino server was registered under.

For example if the Domino server name is ‘Server1/ACME’ then ‘ACME’ is the organization name and needs to be placed into the organization field.

  • Host names / addresses:

Make sure all these names / ip addresses are pingable by both the connecting browser & Domino server and that the Domino server is bound to at least one of the listed entries.

  • Domino servers that host this site:

Check the entered Domino server names are correct or put in an asterisk ( * ) for all servers.

Alex

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Subject: RE: Repost: Web Site Documents not working

Alex,

I was not specifying the organizations correctly. I will look at the configurations in the AM. Thanks for the response.

Shawn

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Subject: RE: Repost: Web Site Documents not working

Well, No Dice. I get the following error:

Http Status Code: 403

Reason: Unable to process request, directory browsing is not allowed

I am using “/db.nsf?open” as my Home URL.

Shawn

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Subject: RE: Repost: Web Site Documents not working

Hmmmm…can you open db.nsf directly from a web browser?

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Subject: RE: Repost: Web Site Documents not working

Yes, if you use something like…

http://server.example.com/db.nsf?open it works like a champ.

Shawn

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Subject: From the Lotus Knowledge Base…

ProblemWhen you authenticate to gain access to an *.nsf resource on a Lotus® Domino® Web server, the following error appears after you submit your credentials (username and password):

"Http Status Code: 403

Reason: Unable to process request, directory browsing is not allowed"

Cause

In this particular case, the error occurred because of an incorrect configuration. The custom log-in page in the Domino Web Server Configuration database (domcfg.nsf) for this server redirected a Web user from the intended URL back to the base URL of just the server name. After a Web user entered credentials, the user was redirected to for example http://server.example.com/.

Because the server did not have a home page set and because directory browsing is not allowed, Domino appropriately returned the error. You see a 403 error message when no home page is set and you access the server over HTTP with no specific resource to view.

Solution

To correct the problem, resolve the intended navigation so that Web users are not automatically redirected to the home page anytime any resource is entered. In this particular scenario, the administrator removed the domcfg.nsf database and everything worked as expected.

Alternatively, if you must keep your custom log-in page in the domcfg.nsf database, examine the code to correct the redirect that is occurring. Or a simple solution is to set the home page to a value to avoid the 403 status.

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Subject: RE: From the Lotus Knowledge Base…

Alex, This is mildly confusing. I was under the impression that when the internet site doc configuration was enabled the server did not use the server document?

Shawn

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Subject: RE: From the Lotus Knowledge Base…

Alex, I deleted domcfg.nsf and defined a default web page for the server in the server doc. Stopped/started the http task and got the same result.

Shawn

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Subject: RE: Repost: Web Site Documents not working

Alex, as a follow-up. Do I need to do anything other than delete the Virtual Server Entry to disable the ‘Old Way’ beyond enabling the Site Docs field in the server Doc?

Shawn