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Server Not Working

I'm trying to run the screen-scraper as a server to maximize productivity but I can't seem to get it to work. The settings on screen-scaper is:

The hosts allowed to connect is set as 127.0.0.1, localhost
The Web/Soap server is 8779

I have Windows Vista so I used the Start Server from the Start menu and tried the the following:

http://localhost:8779/web.htm
http://127.0.0.1:8779/web.htm
http://98.149.166.42:8779/web.htm (which is the IP address)

but was not able to connect, so in order to determine whether or not the server was running I opened the "Services" control panel applet and the server was stopped and there was no option to start it because it was gray. Any suggestions?

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Adrianjay on 05/04/2009 at 12:55 pm

Hmm... Try doing it from the

Hmm...

Try doing it from the command line:

  1. [windows key] + R
  2. type cmd and hit enter
  3. type cd "C:\Path\to\screen-scraper\"
  4. type server /start

This is the manual way to get the server going. After doing that last command, wait a few seconds and confirm that your "http://127.0.0.1:8779/web.htm" link works/doesn't work.

If it doesn't work, then use that command line to type server /status and let me know what it says. I would expect it to simply say "Running", with a possible extra message underneath that.

If it says "Stopped" though, it means that something is making it fail during the server startup. Make sure that you're not running the server at the same time as the workbench. Also verify that no other application is trying to use that port (8779, this case). If you have any doubt about the port possibly being in use already, you can just change that number in the workbench's settings dialog.

Usually this sort of thing happens because of ports conflicting. If you could even post your 'conf' file from screen-scraper/resource/conf/screen-scraper.properties, that would help us look at what the setup is. Also, is there more than one copy of screen-scraper running at the same time? Even if it's the same copy, are you using the workbench at the same time as the server?

Hope we can figure it out-- I'm running Windows Vista at work, and so far it has worked out pretty well.

Tim

 timv on 05/05/2009 at 1:51 pm