Squeak & Apache?

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Sun Sep 26 20:57:01 UTC 2004


Hi guys!

lex at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> Laurent Cocea <lcocea at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible to use a Squeak script/bytecode/binary as an external
> > application (CGI) with the Apache web server? I think that boils down
> > to a question in the FAQ, that is, whether Squeak scripts can run w/o
> > launching the GUI; that question remains, apparently, unanswered
> > (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/781). Thank you.
> 
> As far as I know no one has modified any Squeak web framework for this
> kind of use; you have to run a Squeak HTTP server and then have apache
> redirect to it.
> 
> It should not be difficult, though.  CGI itself should be doable, and
> there are better alternatives than CGI floating around that do not
> require one fork/execute per HTTP request.

I haven't played with it but you might want to look at this:

	http://www.mod.smalltalk.org/

Personally I have just placed Apache as a proxy in front of
KomHttpServer - trivial.

regards, Göran



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