A modular framework for writing web applications in C/C++
Monolith © Copyright 2000-2002 Richard W.M. Jones [email protected]
Monolith is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library GPL. See
the accompanying file COPYING.LIB for details.
Please see doc/index.html for full documentation and a tutorial.
You first need to install the following components, in the order
listed below:
Make sure you have the latest versions of these packages. Older
versions may not work correctly.
Built it:
./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
make
make check
Install it (as root):
make install
You will now need to configure rws. The configuration files for rws
are normally located in the /etc/rws/ directory.
For the /etc/rws/rws.conf file, just use the example one supplied with
rws. You can modify it if you want, but I didn’t.
Now create a /etc/rws/hosts/localhost file which should contain:
alias /
# Path to the document root. NOTE you will
# definitely want to change this!
path: /var/www
show: 1
list: 1
end alias
alias /so-bin/
path: /usr/local/share/monolith/so-bin
exec so: 1
end alias
alias /ml-styles/
path: /usr/local/share/monolith/ml-styles
show: 1
end alias
These are the default locations for the files if you installed
Monolith with --prefix=/usr/local, but you may need to change these if
you installed with another prefix.
Create symbolic links as necessary to your localhost file:
cd /etc/rws/hosts
ln -s localhost:8080 localhost
ln -s www.example.com localhost
etc.
Now, start up rws (as root, of course):
/usr/local/sbin/rwsd -C /etc/rws -p 8080
Fire up a browser and point it at
http://localhost:8080/so-bin/01_label_and_button.so
Errors will be displayed in the error log (/tmp/error_log or
/var/log/httpd/error_log).
If the button doesn’t appear as a white square surrounded by a black
rectangle, then the stylesheet is not being found. Make sure you set
up the /ml-styles/ alias correctly.
Monolith installs other example programs. Look in the examples/
directory for a full list.