How to make a Web server like WWC ?

[vandamme]

I would like to make a web server (with Apache for instance) like WWC.
But I don't know how the server could process the parameters coming from the http request like :
http://myserver.com/?name=toto&format=gif
How could I tell the server to send me the image toto.gif ?

[TomServo]

Whew.. your asking for a lot ;)

What you need is mapserver. (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/) so I would suggest start loking there.

[vandamme]

Originally posted by TomServo@Jun 7 2005, 05:36 PM
Whew.. your asking for a lot ;)

What you need is mapserver. (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/) so I would suggest start loking there.
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Thanks a lot for your answer.
I will look at the link ...

[Guest_vandamme_*]

In fact, the only thing I want is to make a request like :
http//myserver.com?param1=a&param2=b
and to display (in Internet explorer for instance) an image stored in the
web server and whose name is :
ab.jpg

[wais]

You would need a php / asp script for that. What would happen is that index.php / asp would be called, and the variables would be set from those params. I cant remmember how to do this in php right now. It would then use these variables, connect to an sql database and search it for the url of a file with that name by simply doing a (param1 & param2 & ".jpg").

Alternatively, if you have all the images in a single directory, you could just set the directory as the base folder, and then do (folder & "\" & param1 & param2 & ".jpg")

Hope that makes sense. You'll still have to turn that into proper php / asp.

[Beansprout]

You could PM Nowak and see if he'll show you how WWC runs things.

He's quite busy though.

[vandamme]

Thanks for all your answers.
I will experiment all these solutions soon.