Short: MiamiDxWebCP 1.1 - a Web Control Panel for MiamiDx Uploader: Martin Steigerwald Author: Martin Steigerwald Type: comm/net $VER: MiamiDxWebCP.readme 1.1 (19.4.2000) (W) by Martin Steigerwald MiamiDx Web Control Panel 1.1 (19.4.2000) (W) by Martin Steigerwald What is it? ----------- MiamiDx Web Control Panel implements some of the functionality of the original Control Panel for MiamiDx via ARexx cgi-bin scripts (see "Preview.jpg"). So if you have a local network with your Amiga as internet router, anyone at the other machines of your local network can tell MiamiDx on your Amiga to go online or offline. Also you self can use the Web Control Panel. I implemented so that my sister can use this on her Windows 98 machine. Why not dial on demand? Well easy. In germany most internet providers give dynamic IP addresses and also charge costs by time. This makes it dificult to configure dial on demand in a satisfying way. If the time it stays online without traffic is to short, you might loose your ICQ connections and stuff, cause on next connect the IP is changed. If it is too long, you loose money. And then there are applications that think they should query the internet from time to time without user interaction to check for updates or whatever. With a Web Control Panel *you* the local users actually have control when your Amiga goes online. Requires -------- MiamiDx 1.0c with properly set up IP Nat routing (well otherwise it would not make much sense): http://www.nordicglobal.com A web server with working ARexx gateway. I recommend Apache 1.3.12 or later: http://amiga-apache.home.pages.de Installation ------------ Install the webserver and configure it properly so that arexx cgi scripts will work. Then adapt the scripts. Place your favorite ppp interfaces into the list in "Online-Status.rexx" and set how many you have. For each interface you can define whether users on other local machines can switch it on- or offline. Make a GoOffline and GoOnline script for each interface. See the provided examples. Adapt "BeginHTML.rexx" and "EndHTML.rexx" and "index.html" to your needs. Have fun. You can test it locally, by pointing your favourite web browser at "http://localhost". Included are also to other scripts which generate some simple dynamic HTML pages: "Avail.rexx", "ShowConfig.rexx". Security -------- Make sure that the scripts are only accessible from computers on your local network. Easiest way to do this is to enable the MiamiDx automatic firewall setup and make sure that there is no http in the exception list. If you need to enable remote web access, you can configure your web server to restrict access to your Web Control Panel to local machines. Future ------ I will only add features when I need and/or have fun while adding them. Thanks ------ Holger Kruse for MiamiDx. The developers of Apache and the makers of its Amiga port. Alexander Pratsch for ArtEffect 4 which converted the window shot and made that nice GlowIcon for it. Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - mailto:Martin-Steigerwald@gmx.net