[Lazarus] fpWeb and static content

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 22:47 -0400, Lee Jenkins wrote:
> On 5/23/2011 9:29 PM, ABorka wrote:
> >> What is the typical strategy to server up static content with fpWeb? JS,
> >> css files, given that its handler centric.
> >>
> >> Create a default handler that checks for file extension in the .PathInfo?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Warm Regards,
> >>
> >> Lee
> >
> > Why would you need fpweb to serve static content? Your web server does that.
> > CGI/FCGI and apache modules (fpweb) are to generate dynamic content.
> >
> > AB
> >
> 
> Good question.  I want to deploy as an embedded server without the need to 
> install apache, etc for small workgroups and so the I need to allow the server 
> to server up a few key files which could be from the file system or embedded in 
> the executable file for instance.
> 
> For the most part the static files that I'd like to server up are the index.html 
> page (entry point) and it's dependent script and or css files.  All of the other 
> html content will be served up through the templating system and injected into 
> the initial index.html page through ajax or constructed client-side as a result 
> of JSON data received from the server as well.  I figured instead of writing 
> separate web modules/actions for each...

I still do not understand why you didn't use 'fppkg install embweb' and
used that. That embedded webserver does all you want.

Joost.
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