Error loading /

[sihorton]

Error loading /

[sihorton]

In the .desk file (probably called app.desk) it should tell deskshell the default location to start the app at. I am guessing that this is missing. So in app.desk there should be:-

"defaultLocation": "index.htm",

If this is missing then I think it will try to start at / which is why you are getting the error. You will also need a starting page for your application, if it is called something else then add or change "defaultLocation" to be the name of the starting page. Hopefully deskshell will then display this first page instead of the error.

@Ingwie: looks like desk_parse is looking in the wrong place for desk.decl-defs (it is looking relative to user application instead of relative to deskshell install directory?).

[sihorton]

@Ingwie: simplest way to help here would be to go to the demos tab in the default application, select html website and then click on "view source", on windows this opens explorer with the working demo app so people could then copy and paste that and start from there. View source is implemented by opening explorer, on mac we would need to use process.platform or similar to detect we are running on mac and then start up the finder.

[markpenrose]

I had all the above in place. Originally, I was getting a javascript error in the console on augular that I fixed. Then I just got the "Error Loading" page.

Here is my .desk file.

{
"name":"default"
,"version":"0.2"
,"author":"mpenrose"
,"description":"default app shown when you start deskshell"
,"main":"app.js"
,"licence":"MIT"
,"frontend":"chromium-portable"
,"backend":"node"
,"defaultLocation":"index.htm"
,"width":1024
,"height":640
,"htdocs":"/"
}

the app.js is a copy from your demo. I understand that pouchdb uses Indexeddb on Chrome. And It look like deskshell is using webSQL. Maybe this is the problem?

Thank you for the help.

[sihorton]

Not sure if this is the problem but I see you have the following:-

,"htdocs":"/"

on mac that means that the htdocs directory will be served from root i.e. /
try changing that to be:

,"htdocs":"htdocs"

instead so that it is pointing to a relative directory called "htdocs" then you should also check that there is a folder called "htdocs" under the folder containing the .desk file.

My guess is that the problem is simply that deskshell cannot find index.htm so that is what the error means. I think it is looking for /index.htm and not finding it.

[IngwiePhoenix]

From what I remember, the htdocs path is appended to the dirname of the desk file.

I.e. if your .desk file is at /Users/Ingwie/Work/deskshell-demo/app.desk and it reads „htdocs“:“htdocs“ it looks for /Users/Ingwie/Work/deskshell-demo/htdocs - and then the DefaultLocation - like index.htm: /Users/Ingwie/Work/deskshell-demo/htdocs/index.htm . Its just minor poking of the webserver-part. ^^
Am 12.11.2013 um 15:37 schrieb sihorton [email protected]:

Not sure if this is the problem but I see you have the following:-

,"htdocs":"/"
on mac that means that the htdocs directory will be served from root i.e. /
try changing that to be:

,"htdocs":"htdocs"
instead so that it is pointing to a relative directory called "htdocs" then you should also check that there is a folder called "htdocs" under the folder containing the .desk file.

My guess is that the problem is simply that deskshell cannot find index.htm so that is what the error means. I think it is looking for /index.htm and not finding it.

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[sihorton]

Ah yes you are correct. So in which case / means that deskshell is looking for /Users/Ingwie/Work/deskshell-demo/index.htm and that file is probably in /Users/Ingwie/Work/deskshell-demo/htdocs/index.htm.

[IngwiePhoenix]

Correct :) So some web server poking may be necessary ova
Am 12.11.2013 um 20:16 schrieb sihorton [email protected]:

Ah yes you are correct. So in which case / means that deskshell is looking for /Users/Ingwie/Work/deskshell-demo/index.htm and that file is probably in /Users/Ingwie/Work/deskshell-demo/htdocs/index.htm.

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[markpenrose]

That did it. All work.

[sihorton]

Great, glad it is working for you now. Good luck with your app!