You mean 'When Catraxx is NOT running ..." ?

No.
I'll expand my statement:
"When CATraxx is running normally (with a GUI interface), CATweb connects to this running instance and then disconnects again for every request."

You're statement was about the situation when CATraxx is not running.
And your conclusion was correct.

I'll get around to your "invention" later. I'm too busy at the moment.

OK, I understand now.

Hallo!
Hallo liebe CATraxx-User!
Ich habe mir jetzt alles durchgelesen und habe zum Schluss doch nichts verstanden.
Nun möchte ich es mal in meiner Muttersprache versuchen, meine Frage bzw. mein Anliegen zu schildern, in der Hoffnung, dass ich vielleicht auch für mich als Laie eine Lösung bekomme.
Ich möchte mich an die Überschrift halten und fragen, wie ich meine CATraxx-Datenbank auf einen Webserver (z.B. www.meine-musik.de) in diesem schönen Look von CATWeb präsentieren kann.
Muss da ausser dem ganzen Verzeichnis "CATWeb" nicht auch die Datenbank selber (z.b meineCDs.mdb) von CATraxx mit auf dem Server? Und wie richte ich es auf dem Webserver ein? Bisher war immer die Rede von einem lokalen Server (Apache) die Rede.
Welche Schritte muss ich machen, damit ich zum gewünschten Ergebnis komme?
Vielleicht hat es schon jemand gemacht und kann mir ein paar Tipps geben.

Ich freue mich über jeden Ratschlag und bedanke mich schon jetzt für rege Beteiligung.

Liebe Grüße
Peer

Hi.
Hat dazu keiner eine Ahnung? Hat noch keiner seine Schätze im Internet gezeigt?

In a fit of stubborn stupidity, I am attempting to run CATweb under IIS on my Windows 7 Home Premium system. After going through numerous configuration steps, CATweb.cgi is being invoked. It is not able to find its resources. First I got the message that it couldn't find "C:\CATweb\cattraxx". I resolved that by copying the cattrax directory up one level from htdocs to C:\CATweb. The error message is now "Can't connect to CATraxx" and "No Html File Generated".

Since I am ignoring your advice on running CATweb and going off in a different direction, I am most certainly not asking you to resolve my errors. Haveing said that, I am hoping you can tell me a couple things to focus my troubleshooting:
1) What are the most likely causes of the connection failure?
2) How does CATweb.cgi locate its resources?

Thanks,
David

That sounds like a permissions issue. Try starting IIS and CATraxx with Run as administrator.


From the web server (IIS) configuration and the URL. I have not run IIS in years so I can't provide guidance on it's configuration, however htdocs is an Apache default so moving the CATraxx directory up one level sounds like an appropriate change for IIS.

Thanks for your suggestions. I played around a bit which mostly made me appreciate the learning curve I would still face in trying to get it working under IIS. The effort looks way more than any possible benefit. I'll now step back to your suggested approach with the Uniform Server.

Have you been able to find time to make any progress on your next version? Did I read the discussion correctly that it would be possible to start play on either the local device running the web browser or on system hosting CATraxx? Is there an alpha version still available?

Thanks,
David

Let us know how it goes. The instructions in the first post of this topic apply only to the 7_x_x Orion series of Uniserver. More recent versions of Uniserver work fine with CATweb but the Uniserver setup is different. You can still download the Orion series (now at version 7_1_15) from the link in the first post above.

Still working on it. Time for working on it has not been plentiful. Yes. The files linked in the posts above should still be available. Let me know if any links are broken.