[Seaside] HTTP Server Structure

[Stephen Pair]

Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

> Thanks to the excellent tutorials, it was no problem to start building 
> Seaside applications.
>
> I am however at a loss at how the larger HTTP server infrastructure 
> (Comanche ?) works.
> Does there exist *any* good/recent documentation about this ?
> By looking at some code and wiki pages, there seem to be multiple HTTP 
> servers...
>
> For example, what is the right/simple way to serve some static files ? 
> There seem to be several ways of doing it, but I can't get any of them 
> to work reliably. Where can I learn more about this ?

Sven,

For Comanche 6.2, the following will start an http file server on your 
default directory:

    | ma |
    ma := ModuleAssembly core.
    ma serverRoot: FileDirectory default fullName.
    ma documentRoot: FileDirectory default fullName.
    ma directoryIndex: 'index.html index.htm'.
    ma serveFiles.
    (HttpService startOn: 8080 named: 'httpd') plug: ma rootModule

The best docs for Comanche 6.2 (registered as KomHttpServer on 
SqueakMap) are located in various class comments.  Start with the class 
comments for KomHttpServerInfo.  Most (if not all) of the ComancheModule 
subclasses also include helpful class comments with examples.

- Stephen