Brat standalone seems to start fine, but browsers download the xhtml files instead of running it

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Brat standalone seems to start fine, but browsers download the xhtml files instead of running it

yampeku opened this issue 4 years ago · 8 comments

Installed brat (./install.sh) in a fresh unix machine with python 2.7.
When running the standalone server, no errors are displayed (Serving brat at http://127.0.0.1:8001)
However, when I access the server, I get a 'Redirecting...' message and then the index.xhtml is downloaded. Seems to happen also to any other xhtml file.
The troubleshooting script says

Didn't receive json data when accessing "http://127.0.0.1:8001/ajax.cgi", instead we received application/octet-stream.
Have you perhaps forgotten to add a handler for CGI in your web server configuration?

But I can't find documentation for any of that in the installation manual.

Chrome error message in console is

Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/octet-stream: "http://machineip:8001/index.xhtml".

Which seems to imply that something is misconfigured in the standalone server, but I'm not sure what.

Answer 1 · 2021-03-04T09:38:34.000Z

I have the exact same issue, have you made any progress?

Answer 2 · 2021-03-04T10:10:08.000Z

used the self contained version in the end

Answer 3 · 2021-03-04T10:18:40.000Z

Thanks for the quick reply! What exactly do you mean by the self contained version? How can I use it? I couldn't find anything about that in the documentation. Do you mean you set up a CGI server?

Answer 4 · 2021-03-04T14:56:38.000Z

For anyone reading looking for a solution, I found my solution in this issue instead: #1202

Answer 5 · 2021-03-16T07:12:19.000Z

For anyone reading looking for a solution, I found my solution in this issue instead: #1202

Could you expand your solution. I am using manjaro (arch linux), and have installed mailcap. It's still not working.

Answer 6 · 2021-03-16T07:18:12.000Z

Sorry to hear that, installing mailcap was enough for me on Oracle Linux.

Answer 7 · 2021-03-16T08:04:02.000Z

Thank you for the quick reply. I'll try to find the solutions for Arch Linux.

Answer 8 · 2021-03-16T08:26:46.000Z

According to my attempts, using another browser may help on Arch Linux:
local browser: Chromium, brat server: running on another Ubuntu machine, result: rendered correctly.
local browser: Chromium, brat server: running locally on Arch Linux, result: downloading file.
local browser: Chrome or Firefox, brat server: running locally on Arch Linux, result: rendered correctly.

I guess it may be related to some rendering settings of local files on Chromium. Anyway, problem solved.