Setting up a Frontier 5 Server
A friend of mine wanted to set up a new Frontier 5 web server on a Windows machine, and asked if there were any instructions on how to set it up. Here are those instructions.Installing the server software
- Download the current release of Frontier 5, unzip or unstuff it, launch the app, enter the personalization info, view the license agreement.
- Jump to user.inetd.config.http.startup. Change its value from false to true. This will cause the built-in HTTP server to be enabled every time Frontier is launched.
- While you're there, check out the user.inetd.config.http.port value. It defaults to 81. If you want to use the standard HTTP port, change this to 80. We set it to 81 so as not to conflict with any HTTP server you may already be running on the server machine. You can choose any number you like.
- Jump to user.webserver.prefs.server. It should say WebSTAR 2.1/CGI. This is a mistake! (We'll fix it in the next release.) You should edit this string to say something like Frontier 5.0/WinNT. In the next release this pref will go away, we'll build this automatically for you.
- For Mac systems: Launch the NetEvents app, and be sure it's in your Startup Items folder. You'll find the app in the UserLand Utilities folder of the Frontier 5 folder.
- Quit Frontier and relaunch it. You should now be able to call one of the sample CGI scripts from a web browser. Try it out on my server:
Pointers
See Frontier TCP Scripting for more information.
The Internet Assigned Names Authority maintains a list of well-known port numbers. Use this document as a guide in choosing port numbers for your Frontier-based servers.
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This page was last built on 2/17/98; 7:29:58 AM by Dave Winer. dave@scripting.com. |