Netscape web server

[Helen French]

Hi All!

One of my test system (D370) running an old Netscape Web server on it (version 2.0). The web server is not accessible now, giving "HTTP 500 internal server error" on the browser. I checked port activity on 80 with lsof and netstat and it shows the services are running. Also the http daemons are running, the admin server is running and accessible, the index.html file and document root directories are okay, the permissions are okay too.

Any help? I know the version of Netscape is old, but it's required to keep alive for some more time to support an app.

Thanks!
Shiju

[Patrick Wallek]

What do you see in the web server error log file? Have you tried connecting to the admin server and stopping and restarting the web server?

[Helen French]

Patrick,

I connected to admin server, restarted the web server, but nothing changed. Also, I tried restarting the server itself, no help!

This is what I am getting from error log file:

[time_stamp] config: for host x.x.x.x trying to get /, func_exec reports: no handler function given for directive

The x.x.x.x ip_address is of my laptop. I searched TKBs and forums for the same type of errors but none found.

[S.K. Chan]

Hi Shiju,
I can't remember but it may has to do with the Netscape Server configuration file "obj.conf", did anyone mess with that file lately ? I can't even remember where the file is located, it has been a while since the last time I play with NES.

[Steven E. Protter]

Has networking on the box changed lately?

If not, I'd check the intergity of the configuration files and if needed restore them.

I used to use it and I saw the configuration files change once in a while when I didn't remember changing it.

Either I'm senile or they got corrupt.

SEP

[Helen French]

Hi SK,

I checked the configuration files (netscape_$HOME/config directory) including the obj.conf and nothing has been changed as far as I know. I will check it again.

SEP,

Nothing changed on network side. Thanks for your inputs, I would consider restoring the files as a last option, only if I can't figure out what went wrong.

Thanks!

[Helen French]

SEP,

Do you know any option to check the integrity of the configuration files? I know there is an option in Apache during it's startup, but not sure about netscape.

thanks!

[Helen French]

Anyone ....?

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Shiju,

Look into the web server's logs/errors for more info on the problem.

Hai

[Helen French]

Hi All!

Thanks for all your inputs. I could solve the problem by correcting wrong entries in two configuration files - $netscape_home/config/obj.conf and magnus.conf. Some of the directives (default, NameTrans, ObjectType etc.) listed were invalid and commeting out those lines resolved the issue. I can access the server now.

Thanks again!
Shiju