[Gambas-user] Configure real httpd for gb.web.form

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 16/02/2017 à 03:20, Tobias Boege a écrit :
> Hi list,
>
> has anyone here ever set up a real HTTP server for running gb.web.form
> applications? I've decided to use nginx and setting up https there was
> easy enough (https being the the reason why I can't use gb.httpd).
> Normal Gambas CGI, i.e. a Gambas script with gb.web, also works fine.
>
> But I have no idea about gb.web.form.

Projects using gb.web.form are CGI scripts too, no difference.

> I read around in the gb.httpd
> source code and kind of get its control flow but I'm none the wiser
> about how to set up an external HTTP server to work with this component.
> In particular I would run the .gambas executable archive on every request,
> which, I presume, involves rewriting the request URL, i.e.
>
>   /my/project.gambas/x
>
> should be redirected to
>
>   /my/project.gambas
>
> while setting Request.Path to "/x".
>
> I'm not sure if any other information about my setup is useful here.
> I think I succeeded in redirecting all requests to my program and by
> setting PATH_INFO from the original request URL, I get a meaningful
> Request.Path in Gambas.  The result being that the skeleton HTML of my
> page is shown but it's not responsive at all (and it appears to be the
> wrong page, i.e. the wrong Webform.Startup, indicating that probably
> Session management doesn't work). It also seems like the browser is not
> able to communicate with gb.web.form.
>
> Instead of trying to debug my setup which looks completely wrong, my
> question would be if someone has a working configuration for this type
> of project for any HTTP server (that isn't gb.httpd) -- in the hope
> that I can go from there to nginx.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>

Example with the configuration file of lighttpd:

...
# This tells that all and executable files are cgi scripts,
# and just them
cgi.execute-x-only = "enable"
cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
...
# This tell that the "/manager" URL is associated with the CGI script
alias.url = ( "/manager" => "/path/to/MyCgiScript.gambas" )

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini