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Hiawatha version: 7.5
Operating System: W2k3 (cygwin)

I like the possibility to have variables in the configuration file, but i can't understand how to use this feature to avoid repeating paths.
In other words, i'd like to do something like this:

set progdir = C:\Documents and Settings\pippo\Desktop\hiawatha-7.5\
WorkDirectory = progdir + Hiawatha\work

It's possible to achieve that?

Under Windows the server seems to have the "C:\Program files" path hardcoded somewhere, because if i don't define WorkDirectory, ExploitLogfile, PIDfile, it search for them under this folder. But on my italian Windows that folder doesn't exist (it's "C:\Programmi\"), so i have to tweak several path to make the server work.

Ciao.

Cesare.

Hiawatha does a simple search and replace for variables. There is no need for the plus sign. So, you could use the following:

set [progdir] = C:\Documents and Settings\pippo\Desktop\hiawatha-7.5\
WorkDirectory = [progdir]Hiawatha\work

Hiawatha does indeed have a hard coded "C:\Program Files". Hiawatha is build for Unix. Because Cygwin makes it so easy to make a Windows binary, I provide one. But it should only be seen as a 'nice to have'. If you want a version optimized for your OS, install Cygwin. Download the source, change extra/cygwin_config.h and do a "./configure && make win" to compile it.

Nice trick, but looks like it doesn't work for me.

I've adapted your example to my paths:
[...]
5: set [progdir] = D:\webserver-test\hiawatha-7.5
6: WorkDirectory = [progdir]\Hiawatha\work
[...]

From an updated cygwin bash shell i obtain:
$ Hiawatha/bin/hiawatha.exe -k -c Hiawatha/config/
Using Hiawatha/config/
Reading hiawatha.conf
Syntax error in hiawatha.conf on line 6.

However i know that Windows+cygwin is not the environment for which your webserver was designed for. Just experimenting... ;-)

Keep up the good work.

Cesare.

That error has to do with the fact that Hiawatha was designed for Unix, not Windows. Change those lines to

set [progdir] = /cygdrive/d/webserver-test/hiawatha-7.5
WorkDirectory = [progdir]/Hiawatha/work

and it should work.

Fast as lightning!
Yes, now works.

I admit that i was not thinking about a path translation between win and cygwin, because all over the config i can use the standard Windows paths.
With my minimal C knowledge, looking at the code in serverconfig.c i guess that you parse every value associated with the "set" key, converting Win paths to cygwin. So when you do the search and replace, you generate a mixed path: windows + cygwin. Don't know if it's easy or not, but couldn't this be solved not parsing the "set" value? A sort of check that ignore the contents of the "set" key.

Hope to help and many thanks for your reply.

Cesare.

in windows the hiawatha webserver uses cygwin paths. you can ignore the errors cygwin spits out about the path.

Sun 12 Jun 2011 12:08:38 +0200|192.168.1.1|c:\wwwroot\site\index.php|cygwin warning:| MS-DOS style path detected: c:\wwwroot\site| Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/wwwroot/site| CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.| Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:| http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames

i tried both versions of path style , resulting in the same error. it doesnt seem to compromise the working of the webserver.