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The FOX Board has by default a preinstalled BOA Web server. This article explains how to configure it and how to write your own web pages
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If your PC is already connected on the same LAN of the FOX board simply click on the following URL:
The default home page is located on /usr/html/index.html. This file is saved into a
read only folder so you cannot change its contents. To change the default home page or add new
ones you have to use the read/write folder /usr/html/local.
Try to edit the default home page from your web browser using editcgi.cgi. This is
a cgi located in /usr/html/admin-bin useful to edit ASCII files saved in the
FOX Board filesystem directly from the web. To edit index.html use this link:
Delete the previous html code and write something like "Hello World !", then change the contents in
the Save as field in /usr/html/local/index.html and press Save file button.
Now show your new web page using this URL
http://192.168.0.90/local
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Fig 1 - The default home page of the FOX Board
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Changing the default web server folder
The BOA configuration file is locate on /etc/httpd/conf/boa.conf.
You can edit it using this URL:
The DocumentRoot parameter defines the public folder used by the web server for the web pages.
Change this line:
DocumentRoot /usr/html
in
DocumentRoot /usr/html/local
then save and restart the BOA server from a Telnet console with the command:
# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Try now the default web page:
Set the web folder on a USB memory key
The memory available on the FOX Board to put web contents could be not enought in most cases. Define the DocumentRoot
to /mnt/1 and read this article: USB memory key, to see how to mount an external USB memory key.
More info about BOA
In the official BOA web site (http://www.boa.org/) is it possible
to found a lot of documentation about this small and fast webserver.
Special note for web application developers
It is available a special release of FOX Board for embedded web application named foXServe.
More info are available on: [Article not found]
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