WebPoint Settings
Local settings for a web site are stored in the settings.ini file which resides in the
base folder of a web page. The base folder is also the value of the built-in AppID variable.
The settings.ini file is a regular Windows INI file, read by and written to by GetPrivateProfileString
and WritePrivateProfileString API functions. This implies the following structure:
[Category1]
Settingname1 = Setting1
Settingname2 = Setting2
...
[Category2]
...
Settings
The WebPoint system reads this file first on each web page requested by a client. Some settings define the
behavior delivered. The following table explains some of the global settings which are placed in the category Settings.
| Setting |
Meaning |
FrontDoor
|
Specifies the file to serve when the client does not specify a file. This can be a script or a web page.
|
Data Base Settings
If a data base is involved and WebPoint functions issue requests to this data base, the settings file also
specifies the location of the data base which does not need to reside locally with the web site. (For security
reasons, this is not even recommended.)
These settings are in the category DataBase.
| Setting |
Meaning |
AstaHostAddress
|
Specifies the address where the data base can be found by the WebPoint system.
|
AstaHostPort |
Specifies the port number. |
Constants
Constants are (constant) values that web site authors can define globally for the whole site. The advantage
of such constants is that they are available from any HTML and script file on the site. These constants are
defined in the same way as all other settings in the settings.ini file and must be in the category
of Constants.
Some usual constants are:
| Constant |
Value |
BasePath
|
Specifies the base folder of the web site. This constant can
be used to build paths to sub folders for e. g. images or scripts, since
constant processing works even in the settings file.
The base folder should be specified relatively as ..//.
|
ImagePath
|
Specifies the folder where the images for the web site are located.
Should be a relative path as well and can be concatenated with the
BasePath constant: ../WPFunctions<!Image Path>/
As can be seen, constant replacement works in the settings file as well; the output of this constant will be:
../<!Base Path>/<!Image Path>/
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