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Topic: Web server on the dash?

Duane:

I've been looking over some of the WIKIs.  What's your opinion on putting a web server on the dash?  Nothing fancy -- stream-lined -- just an easy way to add some type of interface to activate local scripts we might write ourselves.   Before I start trying to install anything, is it a practical option?

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Re: Web server on the dash?

It's already there: http://wiki.chumby.com/index.php?title= … web_server

You need to "touch /psp/start_httpd" to automatically start it up at boot.

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Re: Web server on the dash?

Duane wrote:

It's already there: http://wiki.chumby.com/index.php?title= … web_server

You need to "touch /psp/start_httpd" to automatically start it up at boot.

Thanks! 

It's under Chumby Tricks/Fun Stuff.  I was looking under Software/Chumby as a web server which didn't appear to be dash specific and suggested I needed to install it.

This is welcome news!

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Re: Web server on the dash?

That other page is for replacing the busybox httpd with something more substantial.  While it doesn't mention it in the text of the page, the script that launches it references shutting down the built-in one.  All of the other chumby devices launch httpd on startup.

The prebuilt binary is for ARM only, so you'd need to rebuild for MIPS for the dash.

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