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
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