Re: linking to root of website, not root of drive

Richard Porter wrote on 19 Feb:

> I have the same problem. I'm running WebJames with its root directory
> as the directory containing my web sites. That means that "/" on the
> local site takes me back to the top level and not the root of the site
> I want.

Eureka! I tried setting a system variable in
Choices.Webjames.Attributes, on the DocumentRoot line and Webjames
happily served it. So in that attributes file I now have

DocumentRoot <webjames-thissite$dir>

and in the root directory of each of my sites I now have an obeyfile
called !!hey-Webjames (the plings to put it at the top) containing

set webjames-thissite$dir <obey$dir>
filer_run SSD.$.Network.Servers.!Webjames
(your pathname might differ)

Put a copy of the identical obeyfile into the root of each site.

So when I want to point Webjames at a single specific local site,
simply doubleclick !!hey-Webjames in that site's root directory.
In Netsurf's URL bar type just "localhost" and Webjames serves it.

(Webjames doesn't seem to mind the apparently repeated filer_run line
when it has already been running for a previous site.)


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