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NAME

elems_httpd.pl - an HTTP/HTTPS server for the elems project.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: elems_httpd.pl
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.02

SYNOPSIS

        elems_httpd.pl [options]

DESCRIPTION

This is a fully functional HTTP/HTTPS server which is written in Perl. If you do not understand why it is needed please refer to the Elems project documentaion to understand the advantages of having a DB only web server.

What does this server do: 1. Make contact with the backend database. 2. Get configuration information from the backend database. 3. Start serving HTTP at the required address and port.

OPTIONS

verbose (type: bool, default: 0)

should I be noisy

connections_file (type: modu, default: xmlx/connections/connections.xml)

what XML/connections file to use

con_name (type: stri, default: )

what connection name

database (type: stri, default: elems)

what database to work on

url (type: stri, default: www.veltzer.org)

what url to serve

port (type: inte, default: 65000)

what port to serve

help (type: bool, default: 0)

display help message

pod (type: bool, default: 0)

display pod options snipplet

man (type: bool, default: 0)

display manual page

quit (type: bool, default: 0)

quit without doing anything

gtk (type: bool, default: 0)

run a gtk ui to get the parameters

license (type: bool, default: 0)

show license and exit

show copyright and exit

description (type: bool, default: 0)

show description and exit

history (type: bool, default: 0)

show history and exit

no free arguments are allowed

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV download scripts
        0.01 MV teachers project
        0.02 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), HTTP::Daemon(3), HTTP::Headers(3), HTTP::Response(3), HTTP::Status(3), Meta::Class::DBI(3), Meta::Db::Connections(3), Meta::Db::Dbi(3), Meta::Projects::Elems::Elems(3), Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

-this server does not currently fork.