Does anyone has first-hand experience with G-WAN web Server?

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The only place where I found informations on G-WAN web server was the project web site and it looked very much like advertisement.

What I would really know is, for someone who is proficient with C, if it is as easy to use and extend that other architectures. For now I would mostly focus on scripting abilities.

Are C scripts on GWAN easy to write ? Can you easily update and upload new C scripts to the server (say as easily than some PHP or Java pages on other architectures) ? Do you have to restart the server when doing so ? Can you easily extend it with third party or existing C libraries ?

Any other feedback welcome.

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Well, now G-WAN is available under Linux, I am using it for more than 6 months.

The C scripts are fully-ANSI C compatible so there is no difference for any seasonned C programmer.

To update them on the server, you can edit them directly in the /csp folder (remotely via SSH) or locally on a test machine (and copy them later): G-WAN reloads scripts on-the-fly when they have been changed on disk (no server stop required).

G-WAN C scripts can use any existing library (starting with all those under /usr/lib) without any configuration or interface: you just have to write a '#pragma link' followed by the name of the library at the top of your script.

What I found really useful is the ability to edit C scripts and refresh the view in the Internet browser to see how my code works.

If there is a compilation error, then G-WAN outputs the line in the source code (just like any C compiler).

But where it enters the extraordinary area, is when you have a C script crash: here also it gives you THE LINE NUMBER IN THE SOURCE CODE (with the faulty call and the backtrace).

Kind of black-magic when you are used to Apache modules.

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