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NovaStar Program Reference / Web / Overview

Web programs perform processing to create content for the website, from the website, or involve 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 browser
  • iceweasel - Iceweasel (Firefox) web browser
  • novastar5_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 map
  • gifgxlat - TODO smalers 2017-10-13 need to document
  • gifplot - TODO smalers 2017-10-13 need to document
  • phantomjs - capture images of NovaStar Administrator Interface and other web content
  • webgif - 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.

Administrator

Operator

The NovaStar Operator provides a web application for viewing NovaStar data. See the separate Operator documentation.

Data Web Services

The NovaStar data web services provide read-only access to NovaStar data via REST web services. See the separate data web services documentation.