The setup pages are likely active pages - meaning - you are looking for script or executable generating the HTML displayed by the browser.
Without further digging (it is too late now), I am not sure what the executable is - it is using template to format the page in : /usr/share/cups/templates/admin.tmpl on my system. Tomas On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 23:10 Michael Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:35 PM Tomas Kuchta <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > I am afraid that if cups http interface does not respond properly - it > will > > likely not be able to be configured this way - most of the content is > > active - not in files. > > > > In any case - you could always try to navigate to URLs as if they would > be > > on your desktop to list/add printers. > > > > Tomas > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 01:09 Michael Barnes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Still fighting printer problems. I tried going to the cups management > > page > > > at localhost:631. I get the index page, but every line I click on > brings > > up > > > a window that says "Not Found". Not much help. Where is it looking fo > > these > > > files? I think I found some of them in /usr/share/cups/doc-root/help/ > but > > > that apparently is not where the website is looking for them. > > > > > > . > I think I understand that. What I can't figure out is how to navigate to > it. When I point my browser to localhost:631, where is it looking? There > has to be some kind of index.html or something to generate the main web > page. There has to be some kind of source file. The links on that page for > the various instructions point to localhost:631/help/<file>, but when I > click on them, it says "Not Found". I have found the various files at > /usr/share/cups/doc-root/help/ and I can point the browser at > /usr/share/cups/doc-root/help/overview.html and read the page. However for > actions like "Adding Printers and Classes" the link says > localhost:631/admin. Like everything else, clicking on that returns "Not > Found". Admin has to be a file, link, command, something, but what and > where? If I knew where it was, maybe I could find it, navigate to it, and > move on. > It is looking like hplip is my main problem. Looking at my other computer, > it looks like hplip isn't even installed, that it is only using cups. Maybe > I need to remove hplip and just use cups. Maybe I need to reinstall cups. > If I can figure out how to do that. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
