[Seaside] What is the recommended setup to develop locally (on Mac OSX Lion) with Pharo and Seaside?

[Johan Brichau]

Hi Helene,

If you do not want to setup a front-end webserver on your development machine (like me), you can easily serve static files via Comanche/Seaside.

The Seaside-FileSystem package from the http://www.squeaksource.com/Seaside30LGPL repository contains the necessary functionality to easily do this.

From the Seaside configuration webpage, you can then add a 'File directory' (as an application). This allows you to serve files from a directory on disk via the built-in webserver of the Smalltalk image.

Hope that sets you on your way!

cheers
Johan

On 08 Jan 2012, at 20:06, Helene Bilbo wrote:

> As long i was working without the possibility to upload files in my seaside
> application i just worked with the seaside one-click image. Now i wonder
> what is the best way to develop on a local machine when working with static
> files - when on the server where the application will run later it will run
> with apache like described in the book in chapter 22.3.
> 
> 1) I read on the newsgroups that it is not recommended to work via RFB
> directly on the real server (where the application will run later).
> 2) Is the best option a local installation of apache? How do I configure it
> (on Mac OSX Lion)? Is it easy to migrate the application to the real server
> (where the application will run later) this way?
> 3) Is it a good option to let the Pharo/Comanche Server do the serving of
> static files while developing on the local machine? How do I configure it?
> What do I have to change when i start uploading the application to the real
> (where the application will run later) server?
> 
> I know this has been asked on the newsgroups many times and there were many
> answers - but for a beginner like me with no prior experience in
> (web)developing thats the biggest obstacle up to now.. A small tutorial for
> this task would be very welcome on the seaside homepage or in the book. 
> 
> Best regards, Helene.
> 
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