Running webserver

Barrelfish webserver runs by fetching files over NFS share and serving them to users requesting the files. Currently it assumes that all files are in a flat directory without any subdirectories.

Modules needed

The webserver depends all the modules needed to get networking working, and on top of that it needs webserver module. Following is a webserver relevant part of the menu.lst

# For networking
module /x86_64/sbin/e1000n
module /x86_64/sbin/NGD_mng cardname=e1000
module /x86_64/sbin/netd cardname=e1000

# For webserver
module  /x86_64/sbin/webserver e1000 10.110.4.4 /local/nfs/website/barrelfish

The webserver takes following commandline arguments:

- cardname: Used to find the network services (This value is currently hardcoded to be "e1000" and hence ignored) - IP address of NFS server: Used to mount the NFS location to get the files - Path on NFS server: Where the files to serve on webserver are stored

Please refer to networking page for details about modules related to networking.