[plt-scheme] Re: Recent changes to the Web Server defaults in SVN

I have also greatly expanded the documentation in sections 1 and 2 to
include examples are sample servlets for the most commonly used
functions. Feedback would be appreciated.

Jay

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Based on recent annoyances configuring the Web Server, there's a few
> recent default changes I'd like to highlight:
>
> 1) Servlets are now served from anywhere in the 'file-root' path.
>
> Previously, a servlet's URL prefix had to be "/servlets". Now it can
> be anything. The 'servlet-root' configuration table entry is now
> resolved relative to the file-root.
>
> If you want the old behavior, move your current 'servlets' directory
> into your 'file-path' and change 'servlet-root' to be 'servlets'. Or,
> change the default dispatcher sequence to include a
> web-server/dispatchers/dispatch-filter filtering out non-prefixed
> URLs.
>
> 2) The default static content is basically gone and now just points to
> the documentation.
>
> 3) There is better documentation for serve/web-config@, which can be
> used to easily customize the default launcher.
>
> http://docs.plt-scheme.org/web-server/web-server_ss.html
>
> --
>
> Just to highlight, if you update SVN (or to the next release), your
> current configuration-table will break. If you don't use a
> configuration-table, then you don't have to worry about anything.
>
> Jay
>
> --
> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> http://jay.teammccarthy.org
>
> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>



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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://jay.teammccarthy.org

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93