A bunch of changes that make it easy to run the gf server with lighttpd

src/server/Makefile

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 GFCFLAGS = +RTS -K100M -RTS --cpu
 
-.PHONY: gf.fcgi food demo
+.PHONY: pgf.fcgi food demo
 
-gf.fcgi: 
+pgf.fcgi: 
 	cabal configure
 	cabal build
-	cp dist/build/gf.fcgi/gf.fcgi .
+	cp dist/build/pgf.fcgi/pgf.fcgi .
 
 gwt:
 	gwt-client/Translate-compile
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ lang.pgf: LangBul-noparse.pgf LangCat-noparse.pgf LangDan-parse.pgf LangEng-pars
 test.pgf: LangEng-parse.pgf LangGer-parse.pgf
 	gfc $(GFCFLAGS) --name=test $^
 
-gwt-installball: gf.fcgi gwt
+gwt-installball: pgf.fcgi gwt
 	rm -rf tmp/gwt-client
 	rm -f gf-server-installball.tar.gz
 	mkdir -p tmp/gwt-client

src/server/README

@@ -24,7 +24,25 @@ $ make
 
 $ make food
 
-== Running ==
+
+
+== Running (lighttpd) ==
+
+- Install lighttpd
+  - MacPorts:
+  $ sudo port install lighttpd
+
+- Run lighttpd:
+  $ lighttpd -f lighttpd.conf -D
+
+- First test from the command-line, since debugging is harder from the AJAX UI:
+  $ curl 'http://localhost:41296/gf/translate?input=this+fish&cat=Item&from=FoodEng'
+
+
+- Go to http://localhost:41296/simple-client.html in your web browser.
+
+
+== Running (Apache) ==
 
 - Make sure that your web server supports FastCGI. For Apache on OS X,
   do this:
@@ -89,4 +107,4 @@ $ curl 'http://localhost/~bringert/gf-server/gf.fcgi/translate?input=this+fish&c
 
 - Check server logs (e.g. /var/log/httpd/error_log) if it doesn't work.
 
-- Go to SERVER_URL/gf-client.html in your web browser.
+- Go to SERVER_URL/simple-client.html in your web browser.

src/server/gf-server-jsapi.js

@@ -1,17 +1,36 @@
 var gf = new Object();
+var pgf_base_url = "pgf"
 
 gf.translate = function (input,from,to,cat,callback) {
-  gf.httpGetText("gf.fcgi/translate?input="+escape(input)+"&from="+escape(from)+"&to="+escape(to)+"&cat="+escape(cat), function (output) { callback(gf.readJSON(output)); });
+  var args = [];
+  args["input"] = input;
+  args["from"] = from;
+  args["to"] = to;
+  args["cat"] = cat;
+  gf.callFunction("translate", args, callback);
 };
 
 gf.complete = function (input,from,cat,callback) {
-  gf.httpGetText("gf.fcgi/complete?input="+escape(input)+"&from="+escape(from)+"&cat="+escape(cat), function (output) { callback(gf.readJSON(output)); });
+  var args = [];
+  args["input"] = input;
+  args["from"] = from;
+  args["cat"] = cat;
+  gf.callFunction("complete", args, callback);
 };
 
-gf.languages = function (callback) {
+gf.grammar = function (callback) {
-    gf.httpGetText("gf.fcgi/languages", function (output) { callback(gf.readJSON(output)); });
+  gf.callFunction("grammar", [], callback);
 };
 
+gf.callFunction = function (fun, args, callback) {
+  var query = "";
+  for (var i in args) {
+    query += (query == "") ? "?" : "&";
+    query += i + "=" + escape(args[i]);
+  }
+  gf.httpGetText(pgf_base_url + "/" + fun + query, function (output) { callback(gf.readJSON(output)); });
+}
+
 gf.httpGetText = function (url, callback) { 
   var XMLHttpRequestObject = false; 
 

src/server/gf-server.cabal

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ license: GPL
 license-file: LICENSE
 synopsis: FastCGI Server for Grammatical Framework
 
-executable gf.fcgi
+executable pgf.fcgi
   build-depends: base,
                  old-time,
                  unix,

src/server/gwt-client/Translate-shell-external

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 APPDIR=`dirname $0`;
-java -XstartOnFirstThread -Xmx256M -cp "$APPDIR/src:$APPDIR/bin:/Users/bringert/src/gwt-mac-1.5.2/gwt-user.jar:/Users/bringert/src/gwt-mac-1.5.2/gwt-dev-mac.jar" com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell -out "$APPDIR/www" -noserver "$@" http://localhost/~bringert/gwt-client/se.chalmers.cs.gf.gwt_translate.Translate/Translate.html;
+java -XstartOnFirstThread -Xmx256M -cp "$APPDIR/src:$APPDIR/bin:/Users/bringert/src/gwt-mac-1.5.2/gwt-user.jar:/Users/bringert/src/gwt-mac-1.5.2/gwt-dev-mac.jar" com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell -out "$APPDIR/www" -noserver "$@" http://localhost:41296/gwt-client/se.chalmers.cs.gf.gwt_translate.Translate/Translate.html;

src/server/gwt-client/src/se/chalmers/cs/gf/gwt_translate/client/Translate.java

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import java.util.Set;
 
 public class Translate implements EntryPoint {
 
-    private static final String gfBaseURL = "/~bringert/gf-server/gf.fcgi";
+    private static final String gfBaseURL = "/pgf";
 
     private GF gf;
 

src/server/lighttpd.conf

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+#Run with (with -D for no-daemon) 
+# /usr/sbin/lighttpd -f lighttpd.conf -D
+#
+
+server.modules              = (
+                                "mod_access",
+                                "mod_fastcgi",
+                                "mod_accesslog" )
+var.basedir = var.CWD 
+
+server.document-root        = basedir
+
+## where to send error-messages to
+server.errorlog             = basedir + "/error.log"
+
+# files to check for if .../ is requested
+index-file.names            = ( "index.php", "index.html",
+                                "index.htm", "default.htm" )
+
+## set the event-handler (read the performance section in the manual)
+# server.event-handler = "freebsd-kqueue" # needed on OS X # Crashes on osx
+server.event-handler = "poll"
+#server.event-handler = "select"
+
+# mimetype mapping
+mimetype.assign             = (
+  ".gif"          =>      "image/gif",
+  ".jpg"          =>      "image/jpeg",
+  ".jpeg"         =>      "image/jpeg",
+  ".png"          =>      "image/png",
+  ".css"          =>      "text/css",
+  ".html"         =>      "text/html",
+  ".htm"          =>      "text/html",
+  ".js"           =>      "text/javascript",
+  # default mime type
+  ""              =>      "application/octet-stream",
+ )
+
+accesslog.filename = basedir + "/access.log"
+
+fastcgi.debug = 0
+fastcgi.server = ( "/pgf" =>
+                  ( "localhost" =>
+                   (
+                    "socket" => "/tmp/fastcgi.socket",
+                    "bin-path" => basedir + "/pgf.fcgi",
+                    "bin-environment" => ("GHCRTS" => "-N2",
+		                          "PGF_FILE" => "grammar.pgf"),
+                    "min-procs" => 1,
+                    "max-procs" => 1,
+		    "check-local" => "disable"
+                   )
+                  )
+                 )
+
+
+## deny access the file-extensions
+#
+# ~    is for backupfiles from vi, emacs, joe, ...
+# .inc is often used for code includes which should in general not be part
+#      of the document-root
+url.access-deny             = ( "~", ".inc" )
+
+$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" {
+  server.range-requests = "disable"
+}
+
+##
+# which extensions should not be handle via static-file transfer
+#
+# .php, .pl, .fcgi are most often handled by mod_fastcgi or mod_cgi
+static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
+
+######### Options that are good to be but not neccesary to be changed #######
+
+## bind to port (default: 80)
+server.port                = 41296
+

src/server/simple-client.html

@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@
         gf.translate(input, fromLang, toLang, '', callback);
       }
 
-      function populateLangs (langs) {
+      function populateLangs (grammar) {
         var f = document.getElementById('fromLang');
         var t = document.getElementById('toLang');
+        var langs = grammar.languages;
         for (var i in langs) {
           if (langs[i].canParse) {
             addOption(f, langs[i].name, langs[i].name);
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@
       }
 
       function initialize() {
-        gf.languages(populateLangs);
+        gf.grammar(populateLangs);
       }
     </script>
     <title>AJAX GF Translator</title>