[Opensim-users] The very last error

[tringate at gmail.com]

Ubit,

Thanks for this information.  Today I upgraded my test region to the latest 
release that OSgrid puts out which was November 8th, 2017.  Oddly enough 
they have changed this setting in OpenSim.ini to be:

;# {ExternalHostNameForLSL} {} {Hostname to use for HTTP-IN URLs. This 
should be reachable from the internet.} {}
;; Hostname to use in llRequestURL/llRequestSecureURL
;; if not defined - default machine name is being used
;; (on Windows this mean NETBIOS name - useably only inside local network)
; ExternalHostNameForLSL = "127.0.0.1"

Apparently they want this feature to be disabled.

I actually use this function on a seldom used object that transfers NPC 
images between my server and in-world.  I have not tried that particular 
object for well over a year not so would not have noticed it may not be 
working.

Strangely enough when looking up the llRequestURL function it says nothing 
about any configuration parameter needed.  I suspect that is because in SL 
no user is able to change configuration parameters in the servers.

It is not clear to me how this function could actually work since in my case 
all my servers are behind my router which is where my host name points to 
Using port forwarding it directs the inbound requests to the proper 
computer/server.

The wiki states: Requests one HTTP:// url for use by this script. The 
http_request event is triggered with the result of the request. HTTP-in uses 
port 12046.

I don't even forward that port to any server.  How could one server handle 
the requests for scripts running in different servers behind the same 
gateway?

With this function disabled, how does this even work?  I must confess I had 
to be running release 0.8 the last time I used this object.

Tom

-----Original Message----- 
From: AJLDuarte
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2017 10:05 PM
To: opensim-users at opensimulator.org
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] The very last error

Hi
In OpenSim.ini.example (version 0.9 release and above)
You can see the line:

ExternalHostNameForLSL = ${Const|BaseHostname}

Uncommented, so the feature is enabled by default.
The fact you don't have it on Opensim.ini, may mean you did reuse 0.8x 
version...
On the update you should use the new configuration files, changing what you 
need comparing to old ones (yes a pain i know :( )
So please compare the files and fix (also the other relevant .ini files), or 
you may have other problems you just did not detected.
BaseHostname for example is now defined at top of the OpenSim.ini in section 
[Const]
(You may change that to other url, guess not in your case)

Regards,
Ubit

-----Original Message-----
From: opensim-users-bounces at opensimulator.org 
[mailto:opensim-users-bounces at opensimulator.org] On Behalf Of 
tringate at gmail.com
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2017 01:50
To: opensim-users at opensimulator.org
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] The very last error

I understand it is not an ERROR for the program to operate.

I would prefer not to get into a discussion of what is or is not an error 
and simply find out what needs to get fixed.

Open sim is obviously checking something and finds it missing.  If I missed 
something it is my ERROR, if opensim is checking something that should not 
be checked for then it is an issue for a mantis report.  I suspect it is 
something I have not configured because it is labeled LSL so probably I 
ignored it.  Once I got rid of the hundreds of other WARN messages, this 
last one kind of stood out.

I correct my one sentence of "This is the error." to be "This is the 
message."  Since the WARN may be telling me of "my ERROR" my post title is 
correct.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun T. Erickson
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2017 8:49 PM
To: opensim-users at opensimulator.org
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] The very last error

A warning is NOT an error. It is simply letting you  know that a particular 
function is not available, as it has not been configured.

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 8:38 PM, <tringate at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today I decided to figure out what was causing all the errors and warn
> messages in my console log for my region.  Somre of my other regions
> have several hundred of them appear at startup but I wanted to clean
> my own region I use as my home so it was totally clean.
>
> I have only one warn message left but I noticed it has been around for
> awhile and it is in all of my regions.
>
> I am running on OSgrid and do have my regions running one release
> behind the code OSgrid packages about once a month.
>
> This is the error.
>
> 2017-10-28 20:20:06,402 WARN  [URL MODULE]: ExternalHostNameForLSL not
> defined in configuration, HTTP listener for LSL disabled
>
> I suspect it isn’t a big deal, but how nice it would be to have a
> clean startup of a region with no such kind of errors at all.
>
> Does anyone know exactly where I would look for what this is that is
> missing?  I had no idea there was code in opensim to connect to SL
> servers.
>
> Tom