Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Using Nirvana behind a web server

Author:	Brent Simmons
Posted:	12/15/1998; 2:16:48 PM
Topic:	New Search Engine Machine in Testing
Msg #:	1272 (In response to 1259)
Prev/Next:	1271 / 1273

To run Nirvana behind WebSTAR, you want Frontier to get every request. It's tricky, and you'll have to do some digging, but it should be do-able.

You can run Frontier as a pre-processor. (See your WebSTAR documentation if you're unfamiliar with pre-processors.) If Frontier is a pre-processor, it gets called for every single request. If Frontier returns a page (with headers), then WebSTAR returns that to the client, rather than processing the request as it normally would.

If Frontier returns "", then WebSTAR processes the request normally. If you're running Nirvana, then Frontier will handle every request, and won't ever return "".

I realize that a HowTo would be helpful, and it's on my list, but I probably won't get to it until later this week at the earliest.

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