Help for a beginner?

[makinavava1978]

Hello everyone,

I'm creating a web where I would like to generate pdf files from latex format, and I thought that texlive.js would be useful for this purpose but I'm not able to make it work.

At the moment, I have only been able to download the files on my computer and run the index.html (like http://manuels.github.io/texlive.js) with Mozilla (when I use Chrome it doesn't work). However, when I copy the files and folders (with the same structure) to my server I can load the main page (index.html) but once I push the "Compile this LaTeX code to a PDF" button, in the "console output" appears the message "Compiling", but keeping in this state for the eternity.

Any ideas about what I could be doing wrong? Some suggestions for the beginners would be welcome ;) Thanks,

Maki. PD: Sorry for my English mistakes, but I'm from Spain and my language skills aren't the best ones.

[manuels]

Hey, do you have a link to this website?

[makinavava1978]

Hey, The link of my website? It is the following, http://www.mates123.com

[manuels]

Well, I get the error

GET http://www.mates123.com/promisejs/promise.js [HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found 26ms]

[makinavava1978]

Should I copy the files from this link https://github.com/stackp/promisejs/tree/2ac90b7c04cf3095d58659649b98d66a3e5ad2f2 in the empty folder?

[manuels]

yep

[makinavava1978]

Hey, Thank four your instant answer, but I did it and I still have the same problem...

[manuels]

Check out the network monitor: http://www.mates123.com/texlive.lst is missing

[makinavava1978]

Hey,

Thanks for your help. I copied the file http://manuels.github.io/texlive.js/texlive.lst in my website but when I tried to see it in http://www.mates123.com/texlive.lst it is missing. I will read carefully the link you told me (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monitor) because the first attempt it was to hard for me...

Thank you again Manuels, I will tell you if I do some progress.

Maki

[makinavava1978]

Hi again,

For any unknown reason I cannot see the file http://www.mates123.com/texlive.lst from the browser, but when I check it using FileZilla the file is there. Any idea how can I solve it? Here the image I capture in FileZilla, texlive.lst appears like a Excel document because I asociated LST with this program, but it is the one I download from http://manuels.github.io/texlive.js/texlive.lst.

[makinavava1978]

Hi,

I have checked that if I change the extension of the file, then it is visible: http://www.mates123.com/texlive.txt I don't know if this adds some relevant information...

Maki

[makinavava1978]

Hi,

I could solve the problem and now it is working. I had to add some lines in the file "web.config" to permit my server works with some non-habitual extensions.

The lines I add after the line "< system.webServer >" are:

    <staticContent>
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".lst" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
     <mimeMap fileExtension="." mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".fmt" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".cls" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".clo" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".tfm" mimeType="application/x-tex-tfm" />
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".sty" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".cfg" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".def" mimeType="text/plain" />
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".mkii" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
  </staticContent>

Thanks Manuel for the first clues. Bye,

Maki.

[manuels]

Great, good to hear!