NovaStar Program Reference / Web / Overview

Web programs perform processing to create content for the website, from the website, or involve web services:

Summary

TODO smalers 2017-10-12 Need to insert summary of web processes.

Web Server (Apache)

  • apache - manage the Apache web server

Web Server (Tomcat)

  • tomcat - manage the Tomcat web application server

Web Browsers

TODO smalers 2017-10-12 Need to summarize which browsers are supported/recommended for each operating system version.

  • chromium - Google Chromium web browser
  • iceweasel - Iceweasel (Firefox) web browser
  • novastar5_startup - start the website with the browser configured in the script TODO smalers 2017-10-13 currently opens administrator but may want to change

Web Content Processing

Utility programs can be run from the command line to generate content for websites.

  • gifgview - create GIF images such as system map
  • gifgxlat - TODO smalers 2017-10-13 need to document
  • gifplot - TODO smalers 2017-10-13 need to document
  • phantomjs - capture images of NovaStar Administrator Interface and other web content
  • webgif - GIF file tool

Web cgi-bin Programs

cgi-bin programs are executable scripts or compiled programs that that exist in the cgi-bin folder under the web server files. These programs allow running a back-end process to perform a task.

  • datadisp-cgi - run the [../data-analysis/datadisp/datadisp.md] program as a cgi-bin program
  • wlgetcontents - WebLynx form contents translator
  • wlgetquery - parse URL query string into property=value strings
  • wlhitcnt - make a GIF file for WebLynx hit counts
  • wllog - log a message to the WebLynx log file

Administrator

  • See novastar5_startup under Web Browsers.

Operator

Need to list any programs specific to the Operator and link to other documentation.

Data Web Services

Need to list any programs specific to the data web services and link to other documentation.