Subj : Re: Server, web question
To   : Digital Man
From : Finnigann
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 10:07 pm

-=> Digital Man wrote to Finnigann <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: Server, web question
 DM>   By: Finnigann to Digital Man on 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, al
 >  >  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
 >  >  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
 >  > 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 t
 >  > right.
 >
 >  DM> Nope.
 >
 > I beg to differ. I just renamed the \web dir and nothing worked, so some of
 > stuff in that folder is mandatory. Which parts, I can't say.
 >
 > Well it wasn't a comprehensive test, to be sure.

 DM> I'm just stating facts. Nothing in that dir is *required* for the web
 DM> server to serve up files (including .html documents). You can differ
 DM> all you want.

It's not a question of what I want.



So why did the test fail as it did?

I renamed \sbbs\web\ to \sbbs\$web\

I imported a HTML file renaming it to index.html

I pointed my browser to my address and got the above error.

I made no other changes. Yet no page was displayed and I got a complaint of the
404 file missing.

Looking at sbbs.ini

Ah... I ommited the web\HTML part...

And the whole point of all this is to learn. I seem to be favoring the Dave
Kelso method more and more...



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