On 9 Sep 1998, Jack Kern wrote: > On a Debian 2.0 system I had wwwoffle installed and working with lynx. > I then installed dwww which required httpd, so I installed boa. > > dwww only worked if I nullified the HTTP_PROXY variable used by > wwwoffle/lynx, or if I put wwwoffle "online" -- wwwoffle "online" then > proceeded to cache all the dox which of course are already on the disk. > :( > > Now for some reason wwwoffle has stopped working even when I stop > httpd(boa). Command-line requests and fetching works but lynx cannot > read the cache or mark urls for fetching. > > I don't understand these conflicts, so I thought I would ask if httpd and > wwwoffled can coexist before trying to reinstall wwwoffle or whatever. > boa uses port 80 and wwwoffle uses ports 8080 and 8081 -- all defaults.
Well, you could put a line in your lynx.cfg : no_proxy:localhost,localhostname where localhostname is your system's hostname. This would mean that wwwoffle wouldn't be used to access boa. Guess you should try to reinstal wwwoffle. HTH, Tim. --- Lead me not into temptation, I can find it myself! ICQ #18073712 http://members.xoom.com/thomson
