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I’m unable to connect to my own installation of Tracks. The only feedback I get is login failed. I’ve checked and double checked the user / pass.

Does this have something to do with the API key, special ports on my AWS firewall, something I haven’t thought of?

Thanks for developing this app. I’m super excited to use it!!

Next time the login fails, you should see a text box at the bottom of the screen with “Domain” as the title. The text box should be pre-filled with http://tracks.tra.in Touch. the text box to edit it. Change it to point at your local installation. Press done on the keyboard and try your user name and password. Let me know if that works.

Sorry I didn’t include this early - I already changed that to my local install. I’ve tried it with the installation domain, the domain plus install path, and even the domain plus path all the way to /login. None work. All attempts merely say “Login failed”

I am not sure if the issue is with the application or if there is something in the Tracks installation that needs to be turned on. I’ll investigate this weekend. In the mean time:
Are you able to get to your local installation of tracks on your iphone using Safari?
Also on your Mac, in Terminal, type:
curl -u username:p4ssw0rd http://<yourLocalInstallationDomain>/todos.xml
Are you getting some xml back? This should tell us if the REST api is working correctly on your local installation.

Yes, i can get to it and log in, in safari on my mac and on my iphone, both at the regular /login and at the /login.m

And yes XML is returned using the command you posted.

Does this app strictly requires iphone OS 3.1? because I have a iphone 3G with 3.0 and it doesn’t download on it. is it possible to make this app compatible with OS 3.0 pls?

@Dusty
I tried setting up a local installation of Tracks. The quickest way I was able to get this working was to use the ready made jumpbox installation of tracks on a Virtual Box. I had to play with the network configuration to make sure that I was using bridged ethernet using airport. Once I made sure that the tracks installation running on my Mac was accessible on other Macs and PCs in the house, I tried accessing it using iTracks and had no issues. So I am a bit stumped at what the issue could be here. Would you provide more details about your specific installation?

@Shan
This is definitely my bad. I think the AppStore looks into the application to figure out the target OS for which the app was built for. I must have built with the latest OS as the target. I’ll try to repost a new version of the application with lower OS requirement. Thanks for pointing this out.

Hello again.

First, thanks for providing such great support - I really appreciate it.

I used a public Bitnami AMI stack to launch this on AWS, then pointed a sub-domain to the AWS instance IP. I’ve created an account for you on my system that you can play with:

http://tracks.dustinstruckman.biz/tracks/login
user: itracks
pass: demo123

Maybe it’s an AWS firewall issue that we’re not aware of? Is there a specific port or protocol that needs to be open? At the moment port 22 and port 80 are open for SSH and HTTP access.

Thanks again,

Dustin

Dusty,
Thanks for setting up an account for me. This is a bug in the application. Thanks for your patience. I really appreciate your help.

The current version of the application is not handling relative paths. So it was trying to hit http://tracks.dustinstruckman.biz ignor,ing the /tracks relative path. You will be able to get the application working if you can somehow make the tracks url a non-relative one.

I am trying to post an update that will fix this issue. The AppStore seems to be down and I am not able to upload a new version. I’ll post here when a new version is ready.

Thanks

Awesome. I’ll look forward to the update. The Bitnami stack that is included in their public AMI put it there, and honestly, I don’t know how to move it.

But considering that’s the way it gets installed by default, enabling iTracks to take account of that seems like the best solution.

Thanks again!

Update: I tried changing the index.html to redirect to the /tracks/login and that did not help.

Quick question: Will you be adding more features to this app?

Ideally, if it functioned like the RTM iPhone app, we’d be in hog heaven.

Is there a development Wiki or public roadmap?

Thanks again! And please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you…

Hey man,

I had to get to getting things done, so I’ve move to Things for Mac and iPhone. I hope my attempt has at least helped you work out this one bug in your app.

Take care!

Thanks Dusty! You did help me find a bug in my code. I really appreciate your help.

To answer your question earlier, yes, I will be adding more features to the app.  I don’t have any roadmap plotted out right now. The current version is functional but does leave you wanting more. I do work on this project during my spare time and will make every effort to put in new features as quickly as a I can.