[Gambas-user] Questions on where *.webpage files should be put and how to call them

[Randall Morgan]

Paul,

Take a good look at the small wiki example. Also read up on common gateway
interfaces. CGI is just a standard method of talking to the webserver.
Basically, when a web request is made, the server looks for the script or
program to run and it's interpreter. The server has to be configure for
this... With Apache it is simple to set this up. But if I recall correctly,
I had to create a link to the gambas interpreter, calling it directly
didn't work. This may have been an issues with user rights. I don't recall.
However the Gambas IDE includes a simple webserver already setup for
testing your application. Go to Project > Properties > Options and make
sure "Use embedded HTTP server" is set to "yes". Then when you click run,
your app will be served by the ide's webserver and will open in a browser.

the plain vanilla description of cgi is that the server looks for the
scripts output on the stdio (standard output). So basically, if you run the
app without a webserver you would expect to see the page content of your
request in text form. Not the rendered page. Cgi is much more complex than
this and it pays to read up on it... The hour or two researching cgi will
pay off in the long run.

Hope this helps....


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Benoît Minisini <
gambas at ...1...> wrote:

> Le 29/05/2014 18:08, paulwheeler a écrit :
> > I am working with the WebBrowser example, and understand how to go to a
> particular web site based on the text.url box.
> > However, I want the program to run a custom web page. According to the
> documentation, I need to create file with a .webpage
> > extension. Where should that file be put?  Also, how do I get the
> program to run that file by default?
> >
> > paul
> >
>
> Before everything else, you must know how a CGI script works. Do you?
> ("webpage" files will just help you to do that).
>
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