RISC OS as web server

After an uptime of more than 60 days, my PandaBoard just hangs (without even an error message)… It was with a ROM from 02/25/2014. Very stable. I today try a newer version of the ROM (06/07/2014). I hope it’ll be even more stable.

A few links:
http://www.ascinfo.fr/
http://www.univoque.com/
http://www.riscos.fr/
http://www.riscos.fr/cgi-bin/uptime

Please make tests :)

I hope that someone, one day, will be able to add https support for webjames, and to see what’s making ftpserver crash so often (perhaps just need to be recompiled).

I plan to make the web server enter in production on september. And to convert my webapps in Pi appliances. Under RISC OS of course! It’s not just funny: we have an excellent tool to make CGI very fast (BBC Basic) and to make them running at speed of light (ABC Compiler).

Which ftpserver are you using?

The only one I know of which works properly is the ftp server built into !Deltanet.

I use FTPs : http://www.rosery.net/riscos/
Is there another server compatible with 32 bits OS?

OK, Thanks.

I have found !FTPs to be unusable when running in combination with other applications as it consumes far too much CPU time.

!Deltanet is not directly 32bit compatible, but I have found that the FTP server within it works well running with Aemulor on the Raspberry Pi. (I think that the rest of !Deltanet is OK as well, but I have not given it the same level of testing.)

FTPs does not use a lot of CPU time on the Pandaboard, but hangs after a few hours. As usual, the error message blocks all the other applications, so WebJames too. Unfortunately, I do not have Deltanet. I’ll try to fix this later, or to see if NFS could be a solution, since we have an excellent client for RISC OS.

NB – Good news: the OS still works after two days. Much better than with ROMs from march to may.

As usual, the error message blocks all the other applications, so WebJames too.

In which case you will want NoError from here: http://www.archimedes.be/Downloads/NoError.zip to close the error box after five seconds so the servers can keep on running,
And because you might want to know what the errors were, you’ll also want WimpLog (needs SysLog) from here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~theom/riscos/othersoft.html

Used to run a BBS under RISC OS, am quite familiar with the need to automatically deal with error messages. ;-)

NullWatch does a similar job to NoError.

Cool. I’ll try both this week… since I live my server alone for one month next monday :)

When I was running a BBS unattended (went on holiday), I took the additional step of writing a program to shut the system down in the early hours (4am? 5am?) and a mechanical timer on the mains to cut the power for 15 minutes (the minimum amount of time it could be set for).
Then if the system suffered some sort of horrible mess-up (filesystem corruption notwithstanding), it would be reset the following morning.
I probably should have wired the RST line to I/O podule and just had the machine reboot itself, but I wasn’t originally supposed to be going so it was a bit of a rush job. ;-)

I add all the needed software to my wabserver, with a ROM from 09/07/2014. Seems to be stable.