NovaStar Program Reference / Web / Overview
Web programs perform processing to create content for the website, from the website, or involve web services:
- Summary
- Web Server (Apache)
- Web Server (Tomcat)
- Web Browsers
- Web Content Processing
- Web
cgi-bin
Programs - Administrator
- Operator
- Data Web Services
Summary
TODO smalers 2017-10-12 Need to insert summary of web processes.
Web Server (Apache)
apache
- manage the Apache web server
Web Server (Tomcat)
tomcat
- manage the Tomcat web application server
Web Browsers
TODO smalers 2017-10-12 Need to summarize which browsers are supported/recommended for each operating system version.
chromium
- Google Chromium web browsericeweasel
- Iceweasel (Firefox) web browsernovastar5_startup
- start the website with the browser configured in the script TODO smalers 2017-10-13 currently opens administrator but may want to change
Web Content Processing
Utility programs can be run from the command line to generate content for websites.
gifgview
- create GIF images such as system mapgifgxlat
- TODO smalers 2017-10-13 need to documentgifplot
- TODO smalers 2017-10-13 need to documentphantomjs
- capture images of NovaStar Administrator Interface and other web contentwebgif
- GIF file tool
Web cgi-bin
Programs
cgi-bin
programs are executable scripts or compiled programs that
that exist in the cgi-bin
folder under the web server files.
These programs allow running a back-end process to perform a task.
datadisp-cgi
- run the [../data-analysis/datadisp/datadisp.md] program as a cgi-bin programwlgetcontents
- WebLynx form contents translatorwlgetquery
- parse URL query string into property=value stringswlhitcnt
- make a GIF file for WebLynx hit countswllog
- log a message to the WebLynx log file
Administrator
- See
novastar5_startup
under Web Browsers.
Operator
Need to list any programs specific to the Operator and link to other documentation.
Data Web Services
Need to list any programs specific to the data web services and link to other documentation.