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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For those of you that are using or are planning to use
the Apache web server on a Foxboro I/A workstation to provide information to your
users, I have some information that I think the user group needs to address with the
Foxboro Company. Foxboro is apparently installing a "Customized"
version of apache to allow remote access to the system as part of remote plus (the
successor to foxwatch). Instead of a dial up modem a router is being used. I
think this is great and welcome any help and support that Foxboro can offer.
Here is my concern/issue with how they are doing this. Foxboro is using port 80
(the default port for web servers) as the listing port for their customized apache web
server. This means that if I want to install apache I would have to configure it
to listen on a different port (port 8080 for example). This would then force my
users to type in <A HREF="http://servername:8080"; TARGET!
="_blank">http://servername:8080</A>. I asked if Foxboro could use a different
port and was told NO. It seems to me that for the amount of time that Foxboro is
going to utilize the web server compared to the amount of use that the web server I
installed would get, that they should use a different port on their
"Customized" version of Apache. The other push back was for me to
install apache on a different workstation on the node. That would be fine, but I
have several 1 Box nodes that this would not work on. </FONT></P>
<P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am currently
using cgi scripts with foxapi to provide real-time snapshots of the system to
operators, electricians, engineers and managers. By using this method I no
longer have to push a remote Foxview session to individuals that only want a read only
look at what the system is doing. I would be happy to share how I am doing this
if anyone is interested. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Can the user group PLEASE comment on this. I would
hope that Foxboro will respond if the user group pushes back on this. Please do
not hesitate to reply back to me if you need more detail or do not understand what I
am talking about</FONT></P>
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