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I am trying to learn how to use the OpenGeo suite by following the tutorials on the site. The one I'm currently trying to follow is http://workshops.opengeo.org/geoext/stores/capabilities.html. Most of it works, but I can't get the grid to populate with the layers from GeoServer. This is my code:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>GeoExt Workshop Application</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ext/resources/css/ext-all.css">
        <script type="text/javascript" src="ext/adapter/ext/ext-base.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="ext/ext-all.js"></script>
        <script src="openlayers/lib/OpenLayers.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="geoext/lib/GeoExt.js"></script>

        <script type="text/javascript">

        Ext.BLANK_IMAGE_URL = "ext/resources/images/default/s.gif";
        var app, items = [], controls = [];

        Ext.onReady(function() {
            app = new Ext.Viewport({
                layout: "border",
                items: items
            });
        });

        items.push({
            xtype: "gx_mappanel",
            ref: "mapPanel",
            region: "center",
            map: {
                numZoomLevels: 19,
                controls: controls
            },
            extent: OpenLayers.Bounds.fromArray([
                -122.911, 42.291,
                -122.787,42.398
            ]),
            layers: [new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS(
                "Medford",
                "http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms",
                {layers: "medford"},
                {isBaseLayer: false}
            )]
        });
        controls.push(
            new OpenLayers.Control.Navigation(),
            new OpenLayers.Control.Attribution(),
            new OpenLayers.Control.PanPanel(),
            new OpenLayers.Control.ZoomPanel()
        );

        items.push({
            xtype: "grid",
            ref: "capsGrid", // makes the grid available as app.capsGrid
            title: "Available Layers",
            region: "north",
            height: 150,
            viewConfig: {forceFit: true},
            store: new GeoExt.data.WMSCapabilitiesStore({
                url: "http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1&",
                autoLoad: true
            }),
            columns: [
                {header: "Name", dataIndex: "name", sortable: true},
                {header: "Title", dataIndex: "title", sortable: true},
                {header: "Abstract", dataIndex: "abstract"}
            ],

            bbar: [{
                text: "Add to Map",
                handler: function() {
                    app.capsGrid.getSelectionModel().each(function(record) {
                        var clone = record.clone();
                        clone.getLayer().mergeNewParams({
                            format: "image/png",
                            transparent: true
                        });
                        app.mapPanel.layers.add(clone);
                        app.mapPanel.map.zoomToExtent(
                            OpenLayers.Bounds.fromArray(clone.get("llbbox"))
                        );
                    });
                }
            }]
        });

        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
    </body>
</html>

I've been playing around on firebug to try to figure out what's going on, particularly on the request

http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1&

since this is the request that is supposed to get the layer info. The request header it sends is below. The response for some reason is 0 bytes. I'm not very familiar with web development, but I thought this should be a GET request instead of an OPTIONS request.

OPTIONS /geoserver/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1& HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Origin: null
Access-Control-Request-Method: GET
Access-Control-Request-Headers: x-requested-with
Connection: keep-alive

Here is the response header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS
Content-Length: 0
Server: Jetty(6.1.8)

What is going wrong? And how can I fix it?

EDIT: Here is part of the log file, which includes starting up OpenGeo and then loading the webpage I built in the tutorial. The rest is just the requests for the map tiles that look like

127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:52 +0000] "GET /geoserver/wms?LAYERS=medford&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&EXCEPTIONS=application%2Fvnd.ogc.se_inimage&FORMAT=image%2Fjpeg&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&BBOX=-122.87109375,42.36328125,-122.8271484375,42.4072265625&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256 HTTP/1.1" 200 6993

I went over the character limit by including them so I took them out.

127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "HEAD /dashboard/version.ini HTTP/1.1" 200 0 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces.json HTTP/1.1" 200 685 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/AENVTest/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 155 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/AENVTest/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/medford/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 262 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/medford/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 178 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/earth/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 268 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/earth/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 166 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/opengeo/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 146 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/opengeo/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/usa/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 148 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/usa/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:43 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/analytics/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 138 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:44 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/analytics/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:44 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/world/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 252 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:44 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/world/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:44 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/layers.json HTTP/1.1" 200 3036 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:44 +0000] "GET /geoexplorer/maps/ HTTP/1.1" 200 556 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:45 +0000] "HEAD /dashboard/version.ini HTTP/1.1" 200 0 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:48 +0000] "HEAD /dashboard/version.ini HTTP/1.1" 200 0 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:50 +0000] "HEAD /dashboard/version.ini HTTP/1.1" 200 0 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:52 +0000] "OPTIONS /geoserver/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1 HTTP/1.1" 200 0 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "HEAD /dashboard/version.ini HTTP/1.1" 200 0 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces.json HTTP/1.1" 200 685 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/AENVTest/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 155 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/AENVTest/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/medford/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 262 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/medford/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 178 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/earth/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 268 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/earth/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 166 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/opengeo/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 146 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/opengeo/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/usa/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 148 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/usa/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/analytics/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 138 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/analytics/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/world/datastores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 252 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/workspaces/world/coveragestores.json HTTP/1.1" 200 21 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoserver/rest/layers.json HTTP/1.1" 200 3036 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:53 +0000] "GET /geoexplorer/maps/ HTTP/1.1" 200 556 
127.0.0.1 -  -  [23/Jan/2013:18:10:55 +0000] "HEAD /dashboard/version.ini HTTP/1.1" 200 0
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what is in the log file – iant♦ Jan 22 at 20:54
When I open the web page, nothing is added to the log on the OpenGeo Dashboard. Do you mean that log, or is it something else? – NinjaMeTimbers Jan 22 at 22:05
look in the logs folder of your jetty install – iant♦ Jan 23 at 8:15
The file keepme.txt found in C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenGeo\OpenGeo Suite\logs is empty, and is the only file in the folder. – NinjaMeTimbers Jan 23 at 15:40
I suspect that means that you haven't started Jetty up, as I'm pretty sure it always logs something on start up. – iant♦ Jan 23 at 15:47
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Read up on the Same Origin Policy. If your OpenLayers script is not on http://localhost:8080/ and your browser or server does not support CORS, that is your problem.

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My code is in a html file called map.html, which I simply double click to open, so unless it's running on port 80, I'm not sure where its running. Firebug says the domain of the option request is localhost:8080 and gives the remote IP as 127.0.0.1:8080. I'm also assuming I need to set up a proxy, but I am unsure how to do this. – NinjaMeTimbers Jan 23 at 19:17
You could open your application through Jetty (from localhost:8080), then you won't need proxy. Sorry, haven't done this myself, and can't give any instructions. – user1702401 Jan 23 at 21:55
Don't double click the file - type the address of the web page with your map in it into your browser. It should start localhost:8080/geoserver... – iant♦ Jan 24 at 8:23
Where should I be storing the file for this to work? – NinjaMeTimbers Jan 28 at 15:39

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