Re: [9fans] web server

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 12:54 +0100, maht wrote:
>> >>> How difficult would it be to use rails or merb in plan9? Is it feasible?
>> Not Rails or merb or anything non Plan 9 but a few of us are building an
>> rc shell based system that works anywhere CGI and Plan 9 / plan9port is
>> available.
>>
>> http://werc.cat-v.org/
>
> I was not aware of werc. Is there a good doc for it?

Besides http://werc.cat-v.org/docs/ the included README and the source
should be helpful (there is not much code there, and should be mostly
self-documenting).

>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
> P.S. So far it seems that werc wouldn't be able to manage
> highly dynamic and volatile URI hierarchies as long as it

Actually it does, for example all the URLs in http://man.cat-v.org are
'synthetically' generated on the fly.

> is run under anything  but Plan9. Ironically it doesn't
> seem to run there.

It does run under any CGI environment, there are various ways to
provide a CGI environment in Plan 9.

uriel