[Gambas-user] Run SmallWiki example with lighttpd

[willy at ...3474...]

On 2015-06-30 21:58, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 30/06/2015 21:42, willy at ...3474... a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have been studying the SmallWiki example to get some understanding 
>> of
>> how webpages work.
>> It all runs fine from IDE.
>> 
>> I have set up a small testing environment (Debian server) on a 
>> different
>> system.
>> I set up lighttpd (just did a default install of it, no extra
>> configuration done).
>> 
>> My questions:
>> 
>> 1. Can I simply make a .deb package from SmallWiki to install on 
>> testing
>> environment?
>> I guess I can, but what I really mean is where do the files 
>> (*.webpages
>> and such) end up after installation in case of installing such a 
>> Gambas
>> webpage project? I guess that is important if you want to host them 
>> from
>> a webserver.
>> 
>> 2. What exactly do I need to configure in lighttpd to host the 
>> installed
>> Gambas webpages?
>> An example configuration would be nice, as the general answer of need 
>> to
>> configure for cgi is too general for me. Not a website specialist
>> here...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> gbWilly
>> 
> 
> You make an executable of the SmallWiki project. Then you install the
> resulting SmallWiki.gambas file as a CGI script in your web server.
> That's all. Just one file to copy and your web server to configure.
> 
> Regards,

Thanks Benoît,

I placed the SmallWiki.gambas in /var/www/Wiki.

Next, I adjusted the lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf).

For those who struggle with configuring lighttpd for Gambas webpages 
this is what I did in my lighttpd.conf file on test server to host 
SmallWiki.gambas:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
# "mod_cgi" added to server.modules below to make Gambas webpages work

server.modules = (
	"mod_access",
	"mod_alias",
	"mod_compress",
  	"mod_redirect",
  	"mod_cgi" ,
)

server.document-root        = "/var/www"
server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username             = "www-data"
server.groupname            = "www-data"
server.port                 = 80

# Added 3 lines below to make Wiki folder a cgi-bin folder and let 
.gambas be run with gbr3
# Make sure you installed gambas3-scripter

$HTTP["url"] =~ "/Wiki/" {
       cgi.assign = ( ".gambas" => "/usr/bin/gbr3" )
}

index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html", 
"index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny             = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi", ".gambas" )

compress.cache-dir          = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype           = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", 
"text/html", "text/plain" )

# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Next, I opened a browser on the test system and typed:
http://localhost/Wiki/SmallWiki.gambas
and there was the SmallWiki.

gbWilly