[lively-kernel] How to make seaside serve LK?

[Lawson English]

On 6/26/10 9:23 AM, Robert Krahn wrote:
> Hi, Lawson --
>
> If you only want to process certain requests with Seaside it is not 
> necessary to serve the LK files with it because Apache is much better 
> suited doing this.
>
> Example:
> A while ago we created a simple chat app: 
> http://lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/BWINF/chat-prototype.xhtml
>
> Lively is still run by Apache but under 
> http://lively-kernel.org/web-collab-squeak we process POST requests to 
> implement the chat's login/logout/broadcasting logic. The URL is 
> transformed by a Apache proxy rule so that it reaches the Squeak 
> server ("ProxyPass /web-collab-squeak http://localhost:8080"). By the 
> way, in Squeak we didn't use Seaside but the good old KomHttpServer 
> (Andreas Raab's WebClient framework would now probably be a good 
> alternative) since Seaside would be overkill for such a simple task.

the nice thing about seaside is that I can use it as a one-click install 
localhost server and use server-side squeak code to interact with the 
Second Life client and server: use the webpage as an interface for the 
squeak code injecting data packets for SL.


Lawson