Subj : Re: Server, web question
To   : Digital Man
From : Finnigann
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 06:32 pm

-=> Digital Man wrote to Finnigann <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: Server, web question
 DM>   By: Finnigann to Frank Vest on Wed Oct 05 2005 04:17 pm

 > -=> Frank Vest wrote to alt.bbs.synchronet <=-
 >
 >  FV> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 >
 >  FV> This my be dumb, but I gotta ask. Is all the stuff in the sbbs>web
 >  FV> folder required for the web server to function? The way it looks, all
 >  FV> the ssjs and other stuff is simply to generate the interface to the
 >  FV> BBS. If I dumped all of that and simply put an index.html file there in
 >  FV> the web>html directory, would it work?
 >
 >  FV> I guess what I'm asking is: Is the Synchronet web server a server
 >  FV> something like apache or is it a js powered thing?
 >
 >  FV> Did that make sense??
 >
 > yes, but why not check it out and see? Just rename that folder and create on
 > with the index.html you would like to see, and see what loads.
 >
 > I tried it and splat
 >
 > 404 Error

 DM> You must be missing index.html in your IndexFileNames key of the [web]
 DM> section of your sbbs.ini file (?).

 > In addition, I can't seem to find the 404 error file

 DM> This is just a warning, not an error. THe error files are stored (by
 DM> default) in html/error, this location is configurable. And no SSJS is
 DM> required for error file support.

 > So now I know it's gotta have all of the *.js and *.ssjs files in order to w
 > right.

 DM> Nope.

I beg to differ. I just renamed the \web dir and nothing worked, so some of the
stuff in that folder is mandatory. Which parts, I can't say.

Well it wasn't a comprehensive test, to be sure.



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