On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:40:25 +0000 seany via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
> I am new to vibe.d and plying a bit with it. > > I notice, that in case of Apache, there is a "root" directory, > often by default under /var/www or /srv/http (resp. ftp) if you > are using linux, and then every time the client sends a request, > apache looks in to the root directory, deduces the subdirectory > from the URI, and pulls the page up from there. Then it parses > the PHP / other scripting commands, and prints the HTML as is, > before serving it over http. > > I want to know the equivalent of all these in vibe.d. The website > has a documentation, but all what I find is that you will need an > app.d, in a predefined directory structure. I however, do not > understand, what the root directory is going to be. > > Is it going to be the directry where vibe.d is started? > > Say, I start my vibe.d under /server, then I have an app.d under > /server/a/app.d and /server/b/app.d > > Do I access them via http://top.level.domain/a, resp /b, and > app.d is like index.html / index.php which vibe.d looks for by > default, or do i have to use http://top.level.domain/a/app.d thing about vibe.d as "node.js made right". it's not a ready-to-go webserver, it's more like an async i/o framework that can be used to build any server you want. so you have to write your own dispatcher (it's actually very easy for easy cases, just consult vibe.d documentation) to get the things you want. that dispatcher can provide pages from disk, from some db, build them on the fly and so on. it's up to you how it will work. yes, this is more complicated than just setting up ready-to-work webserver, but... but why you want your own simple web-server anyway? just use one of the already written ones. and if you want some special processing which you done with some scripting language like PHP for "traditional setup", vibe.d starts shining: just forgot about that crappy scripting stuff and write your code in D!
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