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20 years ago

Web Site Development with Boa

1. Is there any examples of a Web Site running on the boa server using dynamic (cgi) pages?

2. Is there a WSIWYG web site development tool to create web site pages for use on the boa server?

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    20 years ago

    I am using boa as server for cgi pages in our development project. It's very simple to set it up. We used it some time ago for MMU archs, but then moved to busybox's httpd. At this time, I did not yet get httpd working for noMMU nios II.

    Why would you need a wysiwyg tool for wrting cgi/webpages? Use vim and gcc? http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif

    If it is for HTML, you might try bluefish, never tried it myself but looks good: 

    $ apt-cache search -n bluefish
bluefish - gtk+ HTML editor
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    20 years ago

    Thanks for your input, but I am searching for more modern tools than vi (vim) and gcc for rapid application development.

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    20 years ago

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    originally posted by golf@Jul 1 2005, 03:15 PM

    thanks for your input, but i am searching for more modern tools than vi (vim) and gcc for rapid application development.

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    Excuse me? gcc is one of the most used and best compilers around and is running on and (cross)compiling for the largest set of architectures I know of. I&#39;ve seen all too often windows users confuse a flashy graphical frontend that says "build" with a good compiler (just read some remarks along those lines on a Nios book of altera with the results of a university contest. I rarely use this word, but clueless sprung to mind when I read that report of the students). Eclipse, in all important aspects, is nothing more than a front-end on gcc.

    vim (yes yes and emacs) is one of the most powerful editors around. I think there is little discussion on both facts by people that use them on a daily basis. So called "modern" tools don&#39;t even come close. But they require some effort and have a more steep learning curve than other editors.

    I have yet to see the first "modern" tool that can beat the productivity of my vim editor. I can only assume that your remarks are prompted by a limited knowledge of both.

    What are you actually expecting from an embedded cgi program on a MMU-less architecture... but to me, you are treading on a very slippery slope, ...