topic Re: Web AppBuilder & Github in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Questions

Web AppBuilder & Github

TimWitt2 — Thu, 28 May 2015 18:42:30 GMT

Hey everybody,

With the Web Appbuilder V1.0 I was able to just grab one of my apps and host them via github, as seen here:

ArcGIS Web Application

With the Web Appbuilder V1.1 I get an error, as seen here:

ArcGIS Web Application

Any insight would be great!

Thanks,

Tim

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

KarstenRank — Thu, 28 May 2015 18:56:38 GMT

Hi Tim,

both links don't work with chrome.

Greetings,

Karsten

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

TimWitt2 — Thu, 28 May 2015 19:01:52 GMT

Thanks Karsten,

looking at the developer console, it calls the arcgis_js_library from my local machine. I would have to change that somehow.

Tim

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

TimWitt2 — Thu, 28 May 2015 19:36:16 GMT

Karsten Rank

does the first link work now?

Tim

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

KarstenRank — Thu, 28 May 2015 19:47:14 GMT

Now it works!

Karsten

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

LarryStout — Thu, 28 May 2015 20:51:43 GMT

Tim,

Chrome Developer Tools are showing this:

1. The one that works is getting init.js from http://js.arcgis.com/3.12/init.js

2. The one that isn't working is trying to get init.js from http://timw1984.github.io/http://timw1984.github.io//jsapi/jsapi/init.js and showing a 404 file not found error.

Larry

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

TimWitt2 — Fri, 29 May 2015 12:14:25 GMT

Larry,

I fixed that but now other errors pop-up. I guess building it on my own machine, makes it look for all the resources locally instead of the ESRI hosted resources.

Tim

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

TimWitt2 — Fri, 29 May 2015 19:40:59 GMT

I got the 2nd link going, but when I open my widget it does't load. I think github has an issue loading files that start with a underscore?

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

JunshanLiu — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 02:18:36 GMT

Could you post the error when loading widget?

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

TimWitt2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:28:04 GMT

Junshan Liu

It seems that github has an issue with opening files that are hosted starting with an underscore. This is the error.

Tim

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

StanMcShinsky — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:33:03 GMT

Tim Witt,

OK here is what I found. By default Github pages do not publish files with certain file name structures. I found this document to explain and give a work around.

Files that start with an underscore are missing - User Documentation

I don't really know what jekyll is, but I put in a .nojekyll file (the .nojekyll file is blank) in the root of the repository. I added it to the gh-pages branch too but for some reason it did not take. I deleted the gh-pages branch and recreated it and it looks to be working now.

-Stan

Re: Web AppBuilder & Github

TimWitt2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:45:40 GMT

Stan,

that's it! Thanks for the research. I was looking and looking but couldn't find it....

Tim