Documentation for the WN server
You can do a full text search of this
material and view the matches to
your search term in one line of context. Try this out, it is one of
the nice features of WN. Searches are not case sensitive.
-
- The WN user's guide contains seventeen chapters and
five appendices on all aspects of setting up and maintaining a sever.
Here is an overview of the server's features.
Try out the Index to the Guide.
It illustrates some of the nice features of WN.
-
WN man pages
-
If you have man2html you
can view the following man pages for all components:
-
DAEMONS
-
wnswnd
-
The stand-alone daemon.
-
wnwnd
-
The inetd
based daemon.
-
SERVER UTILITES
-
wnconfig
-
Simple runtime configuration for wn HTTP server.
-
wndex
-
Create access control file for wn HTTP server.
-
wnpasswd
-
Create and manage password files for wn HTTP server.
-
wnupdatewww
-
Enable access to standard directories for wn HTTP server.
-
wnuncache
-
Decompile access control file for wn HTTP server.
-
wnv2c
-
Convert logfile for wn HTTP server.
-
HTML UTILITES
-
wndigest
-
Produce HTML links to document sections for wn HTTP server.
-
wnhtmlify
-
Produce simple HTML document from text for wn HTTP server.
-
wnindexmaker
-
Produce index to a set of HTML files for wn HTTP server.
-
wnpnuts
-
Produce navigational links to a set of HTML files for wn
HTTP server.
-
CGI PROGRAMS
-
wnauth
-
CGI program for Basic authorization for wn HTTP server.
-
wncat
-
CGI program for listing (un)compressed files for wn HTTP server.
-
wnredir
-
CGI program for redirecting to a new URL for wn HTTP server.
-
wnsectsearch
-
CGI program for searching files for sections for wn HTTP server.
-
wnseven_m
-
CGI program for searching files for sections for wn HTTP server.
Here are some simple examples of CGI forms and clickable images and
authentication. They are intended as examples to help you setting up
your own.
The WN server supports a number of searching methods. Here
is the HTML4.0 internet draft specification (consisting of 39 files)
as a demonstration of context searching and and an index to
the specification with over 1100 entries made by the WN utility
indexmaker.
Here are some notes about how WN was configured for Debian,
Debian specific utilities and cgi programs, and some tips.
This is the log of changes made in various versions of WN.
This is the log of changes made in various versions of
the Debian package of WN.
These are the C language source files for the server proper. You
can browse or search them if you are curious about the server
internals. To download the source use
ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/wn/wn.tar.gz
Digest authentication is a proposed addition for HTTP/1.1 which
would replace "Basic authentication". WN includes an
experimental prototype implementation.
Can't wait to get started? Here is a one page instruction sheet
to get you up and running. But it is better to read the
Installation and Setup chapter of
the manual!
The WN server is licensed under the GNU Public License. This
allows you to use it freely in any way you choose, for any purpose
commercial or non-commercial.
John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>