Use local W3C validator on local site?

[Niki Kovacs]

Hi,

I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France). I just installed
a local W3C validator on my machine (Slackware 10.1, local Apache server).
It's accessible as http://w3c-validator, because I'm on dialup and I want
to check pages offline.

Unfortunately, URL upload won't work, because the validator doesn't accept
any URL's beginning with http://localhost.

Is there any way to circumvent this limitation? I want to check the output
of a local PHP site, and I don't know how to check otherwise than by URL
upload.

Any suggestions?

Niki Kovacs
--
I'm not as think as you stoned I am.

[James Pickering]

Visit:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/

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[James Pickering]

Sorry, the link should be:

http://validator.w3.org/feedback.html

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[Niki Kovacs]

James Pickering wrote:

http://validator.w3.org/feedback.html

What's that? RTFM? Read The Feedback Man? Anyone else has something better
to offer?

NK
--
I'm not as think as you stoned I am.

[Nick Kew]

Niki Kovacs wrote:

Any suggestions?

Either of:
(1) Just remove that check. But bear in mind that you
might be opening a security hole by exposing internal
details of your system to any user.
(2) Google for validator-lite, which is the same parser in
a desktop tool, and quite a lot simpler to set up
than a webserver-based validator.

--
Nick Kew

[David Dorward]

Niki Kovacs wrote:

Unfortunately, URL upload won't work, because the validator doesn't accept
any URL's beginning with http://localhost.

Is there any way to circumvent this limitation?

http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html

Edit /etc/w3c/validator.conf to reflect where files are in
your installation, and configure other parameters there as
you wish. This file is well commented and modifying it should
be relatively straightforward .

And lo, on lines 50-51 (on my version from CVS a few months ago) we have:

# Whether private RFC1918 addresses are allowed.
Allow Private IPs = no
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[Stan Brown]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:56:40 +0200 in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, Niki Kovacs favored us with...

I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France). I just installed
a local W3C validator on my machine (Slackware 10.1, local Apache server).
It's accessible as http://w3c-validator, because I'm on dialup and I want
to check pages offline.

Unfortunately, URL upload won't work, because the validator doesn't accept
any URL's beginning with http://localhost.

Is there any way to circumvent this limitation?

Sure! Since you have a local server, all you need do is configure a
Virtual Host in Apache. For instance, here's how I set up the virtual
host oldtc3.me in httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName oldtc3.me
DocumentRoot "z:/web_site"
<Directory />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The document root is the directory that acts as the root directory of
the virtual host: think of it as a sort of mount point.

Then separately in my HOSTS file I configure oldtc3.me to have IP
address 127.0.0.1, which stands for the local machine. (You seem to
be on a UNIX. I don't know what corresponds to the HOSTS file, but
I'm sure there must be some file that forces a given host to be at a
given IP address and bypasses normal DNS lookup.)

Once that's done, my browser does just fine with URLs like
"http://oldtc3.me/stat/cltlab.htm". Since it's http, I'm sure your
local validator would also do fine.

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http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
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[Niki Kovacs]

Nick Kew wrote:

Either of:
(1)*Just*remove *that*check.**B ut*bear*in*mind *that*you
might*be*openin g*a*security*ho le*by*exposing* internal
details*of*your *system*to*any* user.

I run Slack Linux 10.1 with a hand-crafted iptables/netfilter firewall, so
my first thought about this is: let 'em come:oD

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs (same initials, hey)
--
I'm not as think as you stoned I am.

[Niki Kovacs]

David Dorward wrote:

Edit*/etc/w3c/validator.conf* to*reflect*wher e*files*are*in
your*installati on,*and*configu re*other*parame ters*there*as
you*wish.*This* file*is*well*co mmented*and*mod ifying*it*shoul d
be*relatively*s traightforward.

And lo, on lines 50-51 (on my version from CVS a few months ago) we have:

# Whether private RFC1918 addresses are allowed.
Allow Private IPs = no

Thanks! That solved the problem.

Niki Kovacs
--
I'm not as think as you stoned I am.

[Stan Brown]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:32:07 +0100 in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, Nick Kew favored us with...

(2) Google for validator-lite, which is the same parser in
a desktop tool, and quite a lot simpler to set up
than a webserver-based validator.

Does validator-lite find different problems from NSGMLS, or is it
just a different user interface for the same validation engine?

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Why We Won't Help You:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/200..._wont_help_you