[Seaside] updateRoot: Weirdness

Jason Johnson jbjohns at libsource.com
Fri Jul 20 09:24:09 UTC 2007


Richard K Eng wrote:
> FINALLY!!! I found the answer here:
>  
> http://inchingforward.blogspot.com/
>  
> | ma seaside |
> HttpService allInstancesDo:    [:each | each stop. each unregister].
> WAKom  stop.
> seaside := WAKom  default.
> ma := ModuleAssembly core.
> ma serverRoot: FileDirectory default fullName.
> ma alias: '/seaside' to:    [ma addPlug: [:request | seaside process: 
> request]].
> ma documentRoot: FileDirectory default fullName.
> ma directoryIndex: 'index.html index.htm'.
> ma serveFiles.
> (HttpService startOn: 8080 named: 'httpd') plug: ma rootModule
>  
>  
> Seems like the configuring of the web server is very arcane and 
> touchy! I'm going to have the above emblazoned on my forehead...  :-)
>  
> Regards,
> Richard
>  

Well, it is doing something similar to what you do in those monstrous 
(and monstrously ugly) apache config files.  But having a GUI made to do 
this kind of configuration would be nice, and much easier since no 
config files are involved.  Long live zero config files!


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