Testing a web server ?

[RobA]

Yeah I am thinking maybe the issue is that I am hosting it on 8080 cos I run an internet web server for myself too. Maybe I should host it on 80 like a normal web server so that I can drop the :8080 bit of the url and then maybe everyones firewalls and internet connections wont think its too bizarre.

If you are using apache, you can use mod-rewrite to map a url to the other port. Something like this should work (untested):

Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[a-z]{3,9}\ /mycooldemo\.html\ HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*mycooldemo\.html$ http://82.32.151.149:8080/ [R=301,L]

and should redirect connections like

http://82.32.151.149/mycooldemo.html?x=1444771&y=3376670.4&z=100&s=512

to

http://82.32.151.149:8080/?x=1444771&y=3376670.4&z=100&s=512

-Rob A>

[torstan]

@Redrobes: Thanks. Missed that in the OP. Cheers for clearing it up.

Looks good.

[Redrobes]

If you are using apache, you can use mod-rewrite to map a url to the other port.

Hi Rob, These images are being served from the ViewingDale app itself. They are not images which are saved and hosted via Apache. I have been programming the web server using sockets and stuff but it does not have a nice rewrite engine. What it does mean is that there is no limit to where to go and what values to zoom to like say Google maps. Google has discreet levels of zoom which is alright and makes caching easier, faster and less bandwidth but its not good for a map that is (hopefully) changing as we add new maps to it. Obviously that also means its web interface is never going to be quite as slick as Google maps either for all the same reasons. But then if you wanted it more slick you could connect via its standard VTT connection and get the map updates super fast since it would be hosted and rendered locally.

What I probably will do is host a standard web page with an iframe containing the image and get the page to request the image from the app. So people don't connect to some odd URL and have no UI.

Gotta think how I can get the server running all day. It might have to be an occasional thing tho. I had some more ideas about the mechanics of play by post in CWBP and all of this serving stuff which ill type up in a different post.

[Redrobes]

Also, any chance of a larger image?

Yes, change the S value. I have set it to max at 1280 I think. Certainly 1024. But I am pulling the plug on it in a mo. Can try again tomorrow eve tho.

[Steel General]

I thought I knew some stuff about web servers, but you guys are way beyond me now...

[Redrobes]

Its not that bad. Maybe ill write a few notes about all of this because its useful to know esp if your setting up a VTT where you have to serve as a DM. Its more VTT related than anything specific to mapping but it comes up time and time again so maybe. The rewrite engine is slightly more complicated but you dont need to know about that unless you are running Apache or have web pages served from an ISP which uses it. And even then you don't have to use it.