Yaws - Yet Another Web Server Claes Wikstrom
[email protected] September 9, 2018 Contents 1 Introduction 4 1.1 Prerequisites . 5 1.2 A tiny example . 5 2 Compile, Install, Config and Run 7 2.0.1 Compile and Install . 7 2.0.2 Configure . 8 3 Static content 11 4 Dynamic content 12 4.1 Introduction . 12 4.2 EHTML . 12 4.3 POSTs . 17 4.3.1 Queries . 17 4.3.2 Forms . 17 4.4 POSTing files . 18 5 Mode of operation 22 5.1 On-the-fly compilation . 22 5.2 Evaluating the Yaws Code . 23 6 SSL 24 6.1 Server Name Indication . 25 7 Applications 26 7.1 Login scenarios . 26 7.1.1 The session server . 26 1 CONTENTS 2 7.1.2 Arg rewrite . 28 7.1.3 Authenticating . 29 7.1.4 Database driven applications . 31 7.2 Appmods . 31 7.3 The opaque data . 32 7.4 Customizations . 32 7.4.1 404 File not found . 33 7.4.2 Crash messages . 33 7.5 Stream content . 34 7.6 All out/1 Return Values . 35 8 Debugging and Development 39 8.1 Logs . 39 9 External scripts via CGI 40 10 FastCGI 41 10.1 The FastCGI Responder Role . 41 10.2 The FastCGI Authorizer Role . 42 10.3 The FastCGI Filter Role . 42 10.4 FastCGI Configuration . 42 11 Security 43 11.1 WWW-Authenticate . 43 12 Embedded mode 45 12.1 Creating Global and Server Configurations . 45 12.2 Starting Yaws in Embedded Mode . 46 13 The config file - yaws.conf 47 13.1 Global Part .