RE: WebCat: Access denied, but why? - The solution.

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1997

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texte = Mark,This occured after a client tried to edit the file, so I suspect that youare correct. Replacing the file from a backup solved the problem. I'll copyyour reply to the WebCat list as several people there encountered the sameproblem.Thank you, Paul>Paul ->>What kind of icon does that Search.tmpl file have? If you double-click it,>does WebSTAR or WebSTAR/SSL come to the front?>I'm guessing the creator code of this file is set to WWW-omega, which won't be>served by WebSTAR or WebCatalog - if this is the case, try just opening the>file in something like BBEdit and doing a Save As... to give it a different>creator code. This may have happened if you used a [writefile] context (are>you copying the remote editing features of the General Store?) and didn't>specify &secure=F; if you don't use [writefile>file=filename.tmpl&secure=F]..., WebCatalog will set the file's creator type>to WWW-omega by default, to prevent people from being able to look at your log>files, databases, etc.>>Anyway, please let me know if this is not the problem.>>cheers,>>Marc Eagle>StarNine Technologies>http://www.smithmicro.com/>>>>______________________________________________________________________________>>_>>Last month I set up my very first online secure store for a small CD>>publishing company:>>https://secure.ims1.com/coolstore/Search.tmpl$search?geSKUdata=0&db=catalog.tx>>t&>categorysumm=t&categorysort=t&max=50>>It>>worked and I was pleased. But the company wanted to review it extensively>>before starting to use it. In the porcess of editing the content of the>pages/>>.tmpl files the encountered a problem:>>>>>I can get to the Cool School Secure Admin page with the password you>>>gave us. When I click the Edit the Main Page link, I can get there and>>>edit the page, but when I try to save the changes I get a popup dialog>>>that says Authorization failed. Retry?. When I retry it asks for my>>>username and password again and re-entering these still doesn't let me>>>save. Any ideas?>>>>I thought perhaps that I did not add that user name and password to a group>>that was permitted to edit pages, but I had. I was able to edit the page in>>question. At that point I surmised that he had simply mis-typed his>>password or username. However when I went to the page to view the changes>>(the URL is above), I got the following error message:>>>>Sorry, you have been denied access to this server based on your Domain name>>or IP address.>>>>This is not a protected realm in Webstar. The message seems to come from>>WebCat, but I didn't even know you could use WebCat to restrict access by>>domain name or IP address. And I certainly did not restrict myself out!>>Please tell me how I can get back in and how I can keep this from>>dynamically restricting me in the future.>>>>Thanks, Paul _/_/_/Paul Uttermohlen, Internet Marketspace, Inc. _/_/_/ mailto:paul@ims1.com _/ Website Development _/_/_/ Websites for Business _/ _/_/_/ Websites for Real Estate _/ _/_/_/Websites for Children _/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

RE: WebCat: Access denied, but why? - The solution. (Paul Uttermohlen 1997)

Mark,This occured after a client tried to edit the file, so I suspect that youare correct. Replacing the file from a backup solved the problem. I'll copyyour reply to the WebCat list as several people there encountered the sameproblem.Thank you, Paul>Paul ->>What kind of icon does that Search.tmpl file have? If you double-click it,>does WebSTAR or WebSTAR/SSL come to the front?>I'm guessing the creator code of this file is set to WWW-omega, which won't be>served by WebSTAR or WebCatalog - if this is the case, try just opening the>file in something like BBEdit and doing a Save As... to give it a different>creator code. This may have happened if you used a [writefile] context (are>you copying the remote editing features of the General Store?) and didn't>specify &secure=F; if you don't use [writefile>file=filename.tmpl&secure=F]..., WebCatalog will set the file's creator type>to WWW-omega by default, to prevent people from being able to look at your log>files, databases, etc.>>Anyway, please let me know if this is not the problem.>>cheers,>>Marc Eagle>StarNine Technologies>http://www.smithmicro.com/>>>>______________________________________________________________________________>>_>>Last month I set up my very first online secure store for a small CD>>publishing company:>>https://secure.ims1.com/coolstore/Search.tmpl$search?geSKUdata=0&db=catalog.tx>>t&>categorysumm=t&categorysort=t&max=50>>It>>worked and I was pleased. But the company wanted to review it extensively>>before starting to use it. In the porcess of editing the content of the>pages/>>.tmpl files the encountered a problem:>>>>>I can get to the Cool School Secure Admin page with the password you>>>gave us. When I click the Edit the Main Page link, I can get there and>>>edit the page, but when I try to save the changes I get a popup dialog>>>that says Authorization failed. Retry?. When I retry it asks for my>>>username and password again and re-entering these still doesn't let me>>>save. Any ideas?>>>>I thought perhaps that I did not add that user name and password to a group>>that was permitted to edit pages, but I had. I was able to edit the page in>>question. At that point I surmised that he had simply mis-typed his>>password or username. However when I went to the page to view the changes>>(the URL is above), I got the following error message:>>>>Sorry, you have been denied access to this server based on your Domain name>>or IP address.>>>>This is not a protected realm in Webstar. The message seems to come from>>WebCat, but I didn't even know you could use WebCat to restrict access by>>domain name or IP address. And I certainly did not restrict myself out!>>Please tell me how I can get back in and how I can keep this from>>dynamically restricting me in the future.>>>>Thanks, Paul _/_/_/Paul Uttermohlen, Internet Marketspace, Inc. _/_/_/ mailto:paul@ims1.com _/ Website Development _/_/_/ Websites for Business _/ _/_/_/ Websites for Real Estate _/ _/_/_/Websites for Children _/ Paul Uttermohlen

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RE: WebCat: Access denied, but why? - The solution.

1997

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