Embedded web application stack

As I discussed in the previous post, we will get down to installing the components of the stack. For easy recognition, i call this stack – rugosa.

File system structure

We are going to put the rugosa stack under the $HOME directory.

$ cd
$ mkdir rugosa && cd rugosa
$ mkdir -p bin etc logs run src sbin www/cgi-bin
$ cd src
# get lua and compile it
$ wget -c http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.4.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf lua-5.1.4.tar.gz
$ cd lua-5.1.4
$ make linux
$ cd $HOME/rugosa/src
# get haserl and compile it
$ wget -c http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/haserl/haserl-devel/0.9.27/haserl-0.9.27.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf haserl-0.9.27.tar.gz
$ cd haserl-0.9.27
$ ./configure --enable-luashell --with-lua=/home/pradeep/rugosa/src/lua-5.1.4/src/ --with-lua-headers=/home/pradeep/rugosa/src/lua-5.1.4/src/
$ make                     
$ cp src/haserl ../../bin                                     
$ cd $HOME/rugosa/src
# get thttpd and compile it
$ wget http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd-2.25b.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf thttpd-2.25b.tar.gz
$ cd thttpd-2.25b
$ ./configure
$ make
$ cp thttpd $HOME/rugosa/sbin
$ cp cgi-bin/* $HOME/rugosa/www/cgi-bin
$ cd $HOME/rugosa
$ cat > etc/thttpd.conf
	port=8080
	dir=$HOME/rugosa/www
	nosymlink
	cgipat=/cgi-bin/*
	host=0.0.0.0
	logfile=$HOME/rugosa/logs/thttpd.log
	pidfile=$HOME/rugosa/run/thttpd.pid
	^d         
	# run the server. I'm keeping the port no. high so that you don't need supervisor permissions, yet.
	$ thttpd -C etc/thttpd.conf

visit http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/printenv. If you see the CGI environ variables printed, your thttpd is up and serving CGI content!

What’s next:

* Hello, World! with Rugosa * Web programming with shell scripting languages (eg:bash) * CGI web programming with Lua * A CGI app to configure network setting(s) on your device.