DUMP1090 on Windows: no map display in browser

[obj]

I created a pull request for this bug here: https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090/pull/63

[F-EGLF1]

I have found the reason for that "bug", described in my 1st posting: I have now converted all files in the subdirectory "public-html" and its subdirectory "coolclock" from the DOS text format into the UNIX text format and now it's running as supposed to be,

Wolli,
Fantastic detective work, thank you.
I loaded each file into notepad and did a save-as but changed the encoding from ANSI to Unicode,
I had to do this for each .js file and the .css file.
The other thing I noticed was that under win7 the security setting when you opened the properties dialog was set to blocked for most of the .js files, however selecting unblock and restarting did not help, it only worked after changing the encoding.
I also tried a new installation using WinZip, however that did not work either.(the encoding was still wrong)
It looks like the files had the wrong encoding from the start.
Again many thanks for solving the mystery.
Ben.

[Wolli]

...I also tried a new installation using WinZip, however that did not work either.(the encoding was still wrong)
It looks like the files had the wrong encoding from the start....

Ah. So this sounds as if the html/css/js-files contained in the zipfile are already in the Windows/DOS text file format (i.e. with CR+LF at the end of each line). OK, good to know. So Windows users should check after extracting, whether these files are in the UNIX format (i.e. line separator is just LF) or in DOS/Windows format (line separator is CR+LF). They have to be in the UNIX format, otherwise problems like the one I noticed (in my 1st posting) may occur.

Thread readers not familiar with this rather technical matter may have a look at the Newline article in wikipedia, especially the sections "History" and "Common problems", to understand what it's all about, and the section "Conversion utilities" to see, how to convert a text file into the UNIX text file format. I myself use the text editor PFE for plain text editing for about 20 years now (which has also the mentioned conversion feature).

[SpaxmoidJAm]

i was looking a the firefox debug and noticed the the JS errors too, the weird thing is if you double click the gmap.html directly the page will load with the map displayed.

So it must be the way dump1090 uses the files.

[obj]

i was looking a the firefox debug and noticed the the JS errors too, the weird thing is if you double click the gmap.html directly the page will load with the map displayed.

So it must be the way dump1090 uses the files.

It is a bug in how the dump1090 internal webserver serves the static files, on Windows only - see my post above.

[pozi85]

Execute:
dump1090.exe --net --net-http-port 8080 --interactive

Then enter in the browser
127.0.0.1:8080

[derp]

Try this

I loaded each file into notepad and did a save-as but changed the encoding from ANSI to Unicode,
I had to do this for each .js file and the .css file.
The other thing I noticed was that under win7 the security setting when you opened the properties dialog was set to blocked for most of the .js files, however selecting unblock and restarting did not help, it only worked after changing the encoding.
I also tried a new installation using WinZip, however that did not work either.(the encoding was still wrong)
It looks like the files had the wrong encoding from the start.
Again many thanks for solving the mystery.
Ben.

Its from this Board but i cant posting Links atm.

[mjh8154]

Wolli,

Thank you! I could not for the life of me figure out why this was not working! I downloaded this just tonight (04-19-2016) and when I unzipped it I had the same result: the web interface would not load past what you had experienced. I had initially used the built-in Windows Zip tool (Windows 10), but I also tried unzipping with 7-Zip with the same result. I had to do as F-EGLF1 explained.

Thanks again!

Cheers,
Matthew

[mjh8154]

Ben (F-EGLF1),

Thank you for the clear explanation on how to easily change the encoding, everything works like a charm now!

Cheers,
Matthew

[Wolli]

@mjh8154: Matthew, glad you could solve this problem using the above stated hints. Have a good time, and cheerio from Germany, -Wolli-

[ultrarunner]

Amazing, I just ran into this problem as well. I was running fine on Win7 and was installing fresh download on a Win10 box - thought it was a Win10 problem! So grateful for this thread.

[abcd567]

I just now burned Pi24 image (FR24's Jessie Lite with built-in data feeder) on my microSD card, inserted card in RPi, booted, configured FR24 feed, and started feeding data. So far so good, but when I want to see gmap.html in Browser on my windows Desktop by http://<IP address of RPi>:8080/, it does not show the page, I tried http://<IP address of RPi>/dump1090/gmap.html, but no success. Any ideas?

EDIT:
Checked contents of directory public_html, all files are there.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ dir /usr/lib/fr24/public_html
config.js     gmap.html       script.js     
coolclock     options.js      style.css     
extension.js  planeObject.js

[Oblivian]

I just now burned Pi24 image (FR24's Jessie Lite with built-in data feeder) on my microSD card, inserted card in RPi, booted, configured FR24 feed, and started feeding data. So far so good, but when I want to see gmap.html in Browser on my windows Desktop by http://<IP address of RPi>:8080/, it does not show the page, I tried http://<IP address of RPi>/dump1090/gmap.html, but no success. Any ideas?

EDIT:
Checked contents of directory public_html, all files are there.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ dir /usr/lib/fr24/public_html
config.js     gmap.html       script.js     
coolclock     options.js      style.css     
extension.js  planeObject.js

Whats the log report on service start? They may have the --net toggle off by default to save new user confusion?

[ultrarunner]

Did you check the encoding of the html files as noted in an earlier reply?

[Oblivian]

Did you check the encoding of the html files as noted in an earlier reply?

I think what he is doing is real-life testing (as a normal user would) to see what does and doesn't work. We know of the fix and manual install process, but there seems to be some issues with the out of box experience I suspect hes trying to raise with someone to take notice and fix