[Isis-users] ABCD en un server real

[Wenke Adam]

Estimado at s:

El tema ha sido ventilado antes, pero según he entendido, siempre en el
contexto en que *la persona que administra el ABCD también tiene acceso al
servidor*, ya sea como administrador directo del Apache o programa
equivalente, o si no, por lo menos con un diálogo fluido con los
administradores institucionales de manera a poder editar/hacer editar el
archivo de configuración del servidor web para incluir las respectivas
rutas, puertos, alias, etc que lleven a nuestra aplicación.

¿Qué sucede en el caso de usar un servicio comercial, tipo Dreamhost, en
que la empresa nos otorga un espacio al que podemos subir nuestras
aplicaciones, pero no nos permite acceso directo al servidor web ni a su
configuración, ni diálogo con los administradores?

¿Sería posible hacer funcionar el ABCD en estas condiciones?

Y qué sucede con aplicaciones más antiguas, tales como GenisisWeb que
genera aplicaciones usando wwwisis en vez de wxis? ¿Podrían funcionar así?

Agradecería muchísimo si alguien me pudiera aclarar este tema.
Gracias
Wenke

Dear friends:
This issue has been discussed more than a few times before, but, as far as
I have understood it until now, always in the context that *the ABCD
administrator also has access to the webserver*, either directly or at
least through a fluid contact with the institutional administrators, in
order to have the relevant paths, ports, aliases, etc. included in the
server's configuration file.

What happens if you want to use a commercial web hosting service, such as
dreamhost or similar, where you are given a space where you can upload your
applications, but no direct access to the configuration file of Apache or
its equivalent nor direct dialog with the administrators?

Would it be possible to make ABCD work under these conditions?

And, would it work for older applications, such as GenIsisWeb, that uses
wwwisis instead of wxis?

I would be very greatful if someone could explain this to me.
Thanks

Wenke

Basically, what I don´t understand is the following, see my comments in
red/bold:

*A quite practical way of doing things is the idea of 'virtual hosts' : you
put a specific configuration file for ABCD (defining DocumentRoot and
ScriptAlias) inside a subfolder of the configuration folder and tell the
system to read all those files as part of the configuration by 'including'
the folder itself. In a subfolder of which configuration folder? The
webserver's configuration folder? How do I "tell the system"?
Each of the files there identify the virtual folder by name or by port.*

Regards
Wenke





2012/12/6 De Smet Egbert <egbert.desmet at ua.ac.be>

> This issue has been discussed a few times before.
> The general idea is that when installing ABCD on a 'real' server (meaning
> mostly : a 'dedicated' server for web-applications), it behaves very much
> like any other web-application running under a CGI-capable web-server (e.g.
> Apache but also IIS).
> But mostly in such cases the administrator of the server will decide on
> how to install it and probably do it him/herself, depending on local
> conditions of already installed server-configurations and other
> applications. Mostly administrators of servers will not accept you to tell
> them where and how to install the ABCD-system - which for that reason is
> quite flexible in installation requirements.
> That is why it is difficult to give exact instructions which work for all
> such local conditions.
>
> Generally there are 2 parameters to decide on : DocumentRoot and
> ScriptAlias. I am using the Apache vocabulary here but it is simliar in
> IIS, e.g. 'virtual folder' is used in IIS to allow defining folders outside
> the proper IIS-subfolders to be accessed by applications.
> The ABCD htdocs-folder is the one to become 'DocumentRoot' and the
> www/cgi-bin folder (with subfolders in the near future) will be the
> ScriptAlias where executables are allowed to run. So these are the two
> paths to note down and pass on to the server administrator. In principle
> they can be anywhere in the file-system but on a server won't be as the
> default configuration on a Windows personal computer : C:\ABCD\www. In
> Linux e.g. they could be in the folder /var/www/ABCD or /opt/ABCD.
>
> A quite practical way of doing things is the idea of 'virtual hosts' : you
> put a specific configuration file for ABCD (defining DocumentRoot and
> ScriptAlias) inside a subfolder of the configuration folder and tell the
> system to read all those files as part of the configuration by 'including'
> the folder itself.
> Each of the files there identify the virtual folder by name or by port.
>
> If so desired we could provide sample such configuration files, but always
> taking into account the chosen paths would have to be changed according to
> local conditions and policy of the server administrator.
>
> Egbert de Smet
> IOIW / U&S
> Universiteit Antwerpen
> ________________________________________
> From: isis-users-bounces at iccisis.org [isis-users-bounces at iccisis.org] on
> behalf of Leyla Schön [l.schoen at bzfo.de]
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:24 AM
> To: CDS/ISIS Liste
> Subject: Re: [Isis-users] ABCD en un server real
>
> very interesting question so I used google translate to read Luis' message.
>
> I would be interested in the answers as well
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Leyla Schoen
>
>
> Am 06.12.2012 00:11, schrieb Luis Peña:
> Veo que con mucha frecuencia que se pide ayuda sobre la configuración del
> ABCD en un servidor real.
> Por favor, alquien pudiera mandar un tutorial de como lo ha hecho en su
> institución.
>
> Seria bueno disponer de un manual con capturas de imágenes, de los
> procedimientos para configurar ABCD en un servidor real.
>
> Por ejemplo en mi institucion utilizan Internet Information Service,
> diseñado especialmente para ASP, a mi me gustaría tener algunas
> instrucciones.
>
> Pido esto por la colectividad que necesita montar ABCD en el server de su
> institucion, ya que ABCD viene listo para funcionar una PC local.
>
> Alguien se anima, por favor?
>
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Wenke Adam
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