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Re: Has anyone gotten nirvana running behind WebSTAR (I'm Close)

Author:Brent Simmons
Posted:2/17/1999; 3:15:13 AM
Topic:Has anyone gotten nirvana running behind WebSTAR (I'm Close)
Msg #:2947 (In response to 2939)
Prev/Next:2946 / 2948

For W*API servers, including WebSTAR, you can run the Nirvana Filter plugin.

This plugin causes all requests to get sent to Frontier. This is the same way Nirvana runs behind IIS, by getting all requests.

The filter has been lightly tested, it's beta. You can download it here:

http://209.181.141.42/frontierMirror/NirvanaFilter1.0b2.sit.hqx

It includes a plugin and a new script, which will import into user.webserver.actions.Nirvana.

To install the plugin, drop it in the Plugins folder and quit and re-start your server.

In your server admin program, you'll need to create an action called Nirvana that points to the frontier.acgi alias.

Then you need a suffix mapping to map .nv requests to the Nirvana action. (The .nv suffix is invisible to the browser and Frontier: it's just between the filter and WebSTAR. It's not seen by the outside world or by your scripts and websites.)

Then go ahead and try out the server -- it should work as if Frontier itself were the server.

Note: make sure Frontier isn't running as a server on the same port as WebSTAR or whichever server you're running. (Frontier doesn't have to be running as a server at all.)

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