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Title: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on September 16, 2005, 09:24:30 AM: As topic says, php-enabled amuleweb is ready for public testing.
What does it mean ?
Until now, look-and-feel of of amuleweb was mostly hardcoded in amuleweb. Template exists, but it is being very hard to customize due the fact that you can't just load it into you favorite html editor.
Not anymore !
From now on, amuleweb can work similar to any other php-enabled webserver (apache for example). Template is set of regular html pages with inside, which are interpreted by amuleweb in run-time.
That's it - there is no more need to recompile amuleweb to change pages functionality.

How to turn it on
PHP interpreter is always compiled, so all you need is to add --php to amuleweb command line. If you have installed amule in default location, template will be found automatically.
If not - copy "php-default" template from amule snapshot into $HOME/.aMule/webserver
You can give it other name, but then you will need to use -t
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: skolnick on September 17, 2005, 12:03:15 AM: This is real good news! thanks for your effort, lfroen. I'll try it ASAP.

Regards.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: stefanero on September 17, 2005, 08:55:15 AM: nice design :)
looks much cooler then the default webserver :))
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: phoenix on September 20, 2005, 04:30:48 AM: Nice job lfroen, congratulations for your great work!

Cheers!
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: alehack on September 22, 2005, 11:34:02 PM: Hi,
When I start the new webserver with --php (CVS-20050921) I can't login. It just shows login.html. I have tried with firefox 1.0.6, Opera 8 and Konqueror with cookies and javascript enabled. I've also tried with different URLs: http://localhost:4711, http://127.0.0.1:4711, http://hostname:4711. I'm using MEPIS and wxGTK2 v2.6.1 (Unicoded). The webserver diplays:

aMuleweb$
WSThread: Thread started
WSThread: created service
WSThread: created socket listening on :4711
WCThread: Started a new WCThread
No session opened - requesting login
Session created - requesting login
Processing request: login.html
WCThread: Started a new WCThread
Session ok
Processing request: login.html
WCThread: exited [WebSocket closed]
WCThread: exited [WebSocket closed]
WCThread: Started a new WCThread
Session ok
Processing request: login.html
WCThread: exited [WebSocket closed]
WCThread: Started a new WCThread
Session ok
...

The old webserver works OK.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on September 23, 2005, 06:28:56 AM: Do you have another webserver running on localhost and (possibly) setting cookies ? Take a look @ your cookie list and clean one coming from localhost. The log should look like this:

Quote
Processing request: login.html
WCThread: exited [WebSocket closed]
WCThread: Started a new WCThread
Session ok
Checking password
Password ok
Processing request: index.html

I will review the code anyway, and insert additional debug prints.

Let me know how it worked (or not worked)
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Emu-Xperts on September 26, 2005, 03:42:40 PM: alehack, Did you set your´ configuration manually through the config file?

I had the same problem. It just stays on the login page because your password is incorrect, even if you set it correctly in the config file.

If you set the passwords through the config, make sure they are encrypted. You may wan´t to delete the config, or back it up, then create a new one by running aMule and set it up with the preferences. This seemed to correct the problem for me.
Title: RE: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Kitebriga on September 26, 2005, 04:12:48 PM: Quote
PHP interpreter is always compiled, so all you need is to add --php to amuleweb command line.

Hi
How to enable PHP interpreter when amuleweb is started with amuled ?( thanks
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on September 26, 2005, 05:00:51 PM: Quote
How to enable PHP interpreter when amuleweb is started with amuled

You can't do it like this. Disable automatic start and run it manually.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Vollstrecker on September 26, 2005, 08:40:39 PM: You could add a liitle checkbox to configuration dialog, saying Enable PHP.
Then just Enable_PHP_at_auto_startup to amule.conf or remote.conf, and all worries are gone.
I don't know if that is difficult, but it sounds to be not.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: alehack on September 27, 2005, 12:44:07 AM: I dont have other webservers running. I have deleted all my cookies. I have also deleted amule.conf with no success. amuleweb always says: Password bad

I have set the password by using aMule so it should be ok.

The problem seems to be at line 3700 of WebServer.cpp:

session->m_loggedin = (PwHash == webInterface->m_AdminPass);

the comparison returns false because m_AdminPas is empty. Perhaps amuleweb is having problems parsing amule.conf. BTW, my password only contains ASCII characters.

Thanks
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: alehack on September 27, 2005, 12:56:31 AM: It worked. Anyway, the solution seems a hack... I ran amuleweb -w and then added two MD5 hashs to the generated file in EC and Webserver sections. IMHO amuleweb should read the web password from amule.conf
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on September 27, 2005, 05:46:58 AM: Quote
the comparison returns false because m_AdminPas is empty.

Your AdminPass is empty. I forget to mention, that it only checks for 1 password: admin password. I will add support for low rights user later.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: stefanero on September 27, 2005, 08:07:57 AM: btw about the password things, there is man page and a wiki page about this.

when you start amuleweb by yourself from console, it will not read the password from amule.conf, instead it will look for a remote.conf and read that.
if it does not exist, pass is empty.
there is a cool feature in forum called search, there have been a lot of threads about this alredy...

tata
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: cwsdoom on September 28, 2005, 09:32:19 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Vollstrecker
You could add a liitle checkbox to configuration dialog, saying Enable PHP.
full ack. :)
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on September 29, 2005, 06:21:00 AM: Quote
add a liitle checkbox to configuration dialog

sorry, but the idea is to replace C++ based webserver with php based when later is debugged enough and provide at least same functionality.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Phlogiston on October 17, 2005, 06:03:56 PM: Whats the exact Option that I should add to amule.conf for default use of this new feature?

Thanks
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: stefanero on October 17, 2005, 06:20:05 PM: you cannot specify any "automatic" option

start amuleweb manually in the console and use the

--php flag
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Phlogiston on October 18, 2005, 02:02:54 PM: Quote
Originally posted by stefanero
you cannot specify any "automatic" option

start amuleweb manually in the console and use the

--php flag

ok I did this, but when I want connect to :7712 The browser just loads nothing, but hangs.

Any hints?
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on October 18, 2005, 05:07:21 PM: Paste output of amuleweb on terminal window, and btw by default amuleweb listens on port 4711 and not on 7712 as you posted. If you can not see login window (with pretty girl on it) your setup is screwed.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Phlogiston on October 18, 2005, 06:09:55 PM: Quote
Originally posted by lfroen
Paste output of amuleweb on terminal window, and btw by default amuleweb listens on port 4711 and not on 7712 as you posted. If you can not see login window (with pretty girl on it) your setup is screwed.
ok I had some problems with the ports... now it works.

Thank you

The nicest thing is that the search function now works... but hey how can I drop an existing search?
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on October 18, 2005, 06:37:56 PM: Quote
how can I drop an existing search
What exactly you mean ?
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: fulgas on October 18, 2005, 09:56:36 PM: Nice work.... going to try it now :)
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Jacobo221 on October 19, 2005, 01:32:28 AM: lfroen:

he means to stop a search which has been started but not finished yet.

Phlogiston:

afaik, you can't ;)
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Phlogiston on October 19, 2005, 01:32:42 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lfroen
Quote
how can I drop an existing search
What exactly you mean ?

I just regognized that this happens if I start a new search, so no problem. And hey something changed in the normal version of amuleweb, because the search function is now working. At the moment I prefer the normal "old" version, it is more lucid than the new php thing.

Or what are the advantages of this new stuff, if you don't want to change somehting at the webgui yourself?
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on October 19, 2005, 05:54:08 AM: Quote
Or what are the advantages of this new stuff, if you don't want to change somehting at the webgui yourself?
1. webgui itself, as you called it, changed. IMHO it's match better now
2. It's easy to have completely different looks: the way amuleweb "looks" is written in html+php and not
hardcoded in c++. Open it in your favorite html editor and change as you see fit.
3. Addition of new features (have you seen new stats page ?) is match easier
4. Other advantages that writing webpages in php have over writing in c++
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: kreegee on October 25, 2005, 09:49:19 PM: just out of curiosity:

how did you implement php? do you send the files through php by calling it (would require an installed php-interpreter) or did you actually include php in the server?
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Jacobo221 on October 25, 2005, 10:00:06 PM: the server has a tiny php-like interpreter.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: kreegee on October 25, 2005, 10:58:43 PM: ok, so there's no change to activate additional php modules, update to php5 etc. without recompiling, right?

(well, doesn't bother me much - but it's less fun without that stuff ;) )
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: thedude0001 on October 25, 2005, 11:36:49 PM: amuleweb brings along its own PHP interpreter which lfroen wrote completely from scratch. So it is completely independent from any PHP on your system...
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: kreegee on October 26, 2005, 12:48:15 AM: sounds quite like reinventing the wheel 8o

:P
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: thedude0001 on October 26, 2005, 12:53:30 AM: Sounds like a PHP license that wouldn't allow us to use their source in amule ;)
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Vollstrecker on October 26, 2005, 07:49:46 AM: Can it be dynamically linked? Or just imported as module like apache does?
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: stefanero on October 26, 2005, 08:37:47 AM: this would just add another dependency...
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Jacobo221 on October 26, 2005, 08:50:43 AM: and much more load than what amuleweb really needs and still would need lots of into-amuleweb code since PHP5, by itself, doesn't provide any information about aMule ;)
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: thedude0001 on October 26, 2005, 02:37:08 PM: We had this discussion, too, but lfroen stated that for him it was not a hard and disliked task to write the PHP parser, but rather fun and interesting. He didn't do it because he had to but because he wanted to ;)
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on October 26, 2005, 09:00:23 PM: Quote
He didn't do it because he had to but because he wanted to
On my day job I do things that I have to and get paid for. Here, on a contrary, I have a choice :)

But, being serious, using external php interpreter is not trivial thing, and suffer from several drawbacks:
1. External dependancy
2. Installation complexity
3. Dependancy on php version currently installed
4. Dependancy on configuration of installed php
5. Developing such thing would be plain PITA - I did some RTFM to be sure

Implementing own interpreter (parser is only one part of it :) ), on the other hand, is fun and serve the purpose as I see it.
Worth note, that it doesn't prevent me from using external php as choice, and I may add support for this in near future.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Kry on October 26, 2005, 09:19:30 PM: Not so near, we have to release at some point.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: kreegee on October 26, 2005, 11:18:38 PM: hehe, Kry :P

@lfroen
i don't know about the difficulty of implementation, but it would be much more powerfull with the official php-runtime (i guess you haven't implemented all 100s function available *g*). but thanks anyway - looks much better now - and IMHO it's faster than the old webadmin too!

small notice: did i miss something or are the links/hashs of the shared files not shown anymore?
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: Jacobo221 on October 27, 2005, 01:45:56 AM: hey lfroen! that's the first kind post i read from you! congrats!

you can keep posting rude ones now ;) :P
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on October 27, 2005, 06:10:34 AM: Quote
it would be much more powerfull with the official php-runtime
Oh, definitly. I can't compete with Zend which develops php several years. But, that's the trade-off I choose against drawbacks listed above.

Quote
small notice: did i miss something or are the links/hashs of the shared files not shown anymore?
No. I don't see what it can be used for. File hash accessed via property "hash" like $file->hash (for shared files and downloads), and link to shared files accessed via $file->link. Add it where you see fit.
I will publish complete manual before release.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: wardevil on November 07, 2005, 12:59:49 PM: Is it just me or webserver is broken?
I noticed that amuleweb dont run at amule startup even if run amuleweb at startup option is check in preferences and a "You choose to run amuleweb at startup but amuleweb executable is not installed or not in path" error is raised.
Another thing is is i start amuleweb manually i cant login with a password bad in the log....after a read all posts in this thread i copied the password hash in amule.conf and pasted in the remote.conf webserver section ...same thing :Password bad....i even deleted amule.conf and remote.conf and configure it in the GUI with no luck....and then remember lets run amuleweb with a --no-php switch but hey....i cant login either...
Is there a problem with this??

I guess nothing is perfect.... :))

Good work to everybody involved....

Cheers.....
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: stefanero on November 07, 2005, 01:03:48 PM: yup your right, same thing here..
when I type pass and the page simple reloads
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on November 07, 2005, 04:47:11 PM: Login part did not changed for weeks. And it work for me. Try to clear cookies.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: wardevil on November 08, 2005, 10:39:47 AM: Quote
Login part did not changed for weeks. And it work for me. Try to clear cookies.
Changed or not, cvs from yesterday works fine now.... :D

Cheers....
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: kreegee on January 08, 2006, 06:05:38 AM: hm, strange thing, it works with iexplore, while firefox just loads the frameset, but all pages are the login-sreen, so it just jumps back to the login-screen.

anybody observing the same?

btw, i cleared all cookies from the host amule is running on.

edit: as said on http://forum.amule.org/thread.php?threadid=8680&sid= i disabled all extensions and gave it a try. no progress, still getting back to the login. (just checked: the Sessid-cookie gets set, but there must be a problem with reading it)

no problem with the old webinterface or iexplore though.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: lfroen on January 08, 2006, 10:05:40 AM: Quote
it works with iexplore, while firefox just loads the frameset, but all pages are the login-sreen

Cookies/Cache/Extensions.
If it works with explorer - webserver setup and network is ok.
Title: Re: PHP based webserver (amuleweb) is available for public testing
Post by: kreegee on January 08, 2006, 12:07:10 PM: well, after fiddling around some time, trying to login on hostname or ip etc. it works now...

strange things *g*
Title: same problem like kreegee
Post by: PsychoChris on January 09, 2006, 06:38:42 PM: Quote
anybody observing the same?
Yes, i have exactly the same problem. But my "fiddling" attempts didn't solve this.
I would like to know what exactly you did so that it worked.

Greetings,
Chris