URLs are case sensitive!

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Hi there,

just a useful note you may want to add to
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AggregateTroubleshooting.

I set up a Tomcat server for ODK Aggregate which receives data from
ODK Collect via an SSL connection. I spent some time trying to
troubleshoot why my phone was not connecting to ODK Aggregate, when I
realised that the server URL is actually case sensitive in Tomcat.

So I set up my server at https://aomceldk.bounceme.net/ODKAggregate
(the site where I'm testing the system currently).
If you enter aomceldk.bounceme.net/odkaggregate into the browser it
can't find ODK Aggregate, only if you enter aomceldk.bounceme.net/
ODKAggregate. Since I had typed everything in lower case into my
phone, I kept receiving Not Found (404) error message.

I'm sure experienced web designers know that URLs are case sensitive,
but for a beginner like me this was quite a surprise - so maybe useful
to add under Step 1 of "Cannot Retrieve List of Forms".

Best,

Lu

2

Lu,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I updated the documentation on both
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AggregateTroubleshooting
http://opendatakit.org/use/aggregate/tomcat-install

Cheers,
Waylon

ยทยทยท On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Lu Gram wrote: > Hi there, > > just a useful note you may want to add to > http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AggregateTroubleshooting. > > I set up a Tomcat server for ODK Aggregate which receives data from > ODK Collect via an SSL connection. I spent some time trying to > troubleshoot why my phone was not connecting to ODK Aggregate, when I > realised that the server URL is actually case sensitive in Tomcat. > > So I set up my server at https://aomceldk.bounceme.net/ODKAggregate > (the site where I'm testing the system currently). > If you enter aomceldk.bounceme.net/odkaggregate into the browser it > can't find ODK Aggregate, only if you enter aomceldk.bounceme.net/ > ODKAggregate. Since I had typed everything in lower case into my > phone, I kept receiving Not Found (404) error message. > > I'm sure experienced web designers know that URLs are case sensitive, > but for a beginner like me this was quite a surprise - so maybe useful > to add under Step 1 of "Cannot Retrieve List of Forms". > > Best, > > Lu > > -- > Post: opendatakit@googlegroups.com > Unsubscribe: opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com > Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en