| Application Web Address / URIs acknowledged by the GAS | |
This topic explains how GAS uses the URL of a request to determine the file system location from where to serve a file.
This topic provides examples of how the GAS uses configuration elements defined in your GAS configuration file to locate a file resource specified in an application's URL path (e.g. http://localhost:6394/demos.html) .
| URI path | Description |
|---|---|
| / | The slash (/) is the path to the
document root configured in the Genero Application Server (GAS) configuration file. The
DOCUMENT_ROOT element is located at
/CONFIGURATION/APPLICATION_SERVER/INTERFACE_TO_CONNECTOR/DOCUMENT_ROOT, see DOCUMENT_ROOT. For example, this excerpt is from the default GAS configuration file
(as.xcf).
... <RESOURCE_LIST> <PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT> ... <RESOURCE Id="res.path.docroot" Source="INTERNAL">$(res.path.as)/web</RESOURCE> ... </PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT> </RESOURCE_LIST> ... <INTERFACE_TO_CONNECTOR> ... <DOCUMENT_ROOT>$(res.path.docroot)</DOCUMENT_ROOT> ... </INTERFACE_TO_CONNECTOR> ... In this example, when calling the demo page using the URL http://localhost:6394/demos.html, you expect to find the demos.html file in the directory specified by the DOCUMENT_ROOT entry, i.e. the /web directory in your application server path. |
| /ua/i/ | In this URL the slash (/) following the ua/i
/ is the path to the public resource directory, where resources such as images are found,
see Paths to application resources. In this example, when accessing the photo.jpeg with the URL http://localhost:6394/ua/i/photo.jpeg, you expect to find the photo.jpeg file in the directory specified by the $(res.public.resources), which expands to $(res.appdata.path)/public/common directory in your application server's application data path. |
| /ua/components | In this URL the slash (/) following the
ua/components/ is the path to the web component directory configured in the
Genero Application Server (GAS) configuration file where web components are found. The
WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY element is located at
/CONFIGURATION/APPLICATION_SERVER/WEB_APPLICATION_EXECUTION_COMPONENT/WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY,
see WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY . For example, this excerpt is from the default GAS configuration file
(as.xcf).
...
<WEB_APPLICATION_EXECUTION_COMPONENT Id="cpn.wa.execution.local">
...
<WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY>$(application.path)/webcomponents</WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY>
...
</WEB_APPLICATION_EXECUTION_COMPONENT>
...
In this example, when accessing a web component with the URL http://localhost:6394/ua/components/mywebcomponent, you expect to find the file in the directory specified by the WEB_COMPONENT_DIRECTORY entry, i.e. the /webcomponents directory in your application path. |