Static Images + Mac timeouts

[sdevore at mac.com]

On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 04:05 PM, maria redin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am setting up my Manila websites but I've come across two problems.  
> I hope someone in this list can help me!
>
> 1.  I need a static server to serve images for my manila website.  
> However, because I have no access to one or resources to buy one for 
> my Windows machine,  I need Frontier to serve the images for titlebars 
> and side bars of each Manila web page.
If you are having frontier serve the static images then you will gain 
nothing by not having them served in the normal manila way (you may 
actually loose some performance since you will have an extra layer of 
reading the file from disk every time.


>
> I tried to put them in Guest Databases/www/ and Guest 
> Databases/www/static and try to access them from there, but Frontier 
> will not return the image or web page placed there.

You need to make sure that frontier knows how to look there, if you 
have a default entry in the config.mainResponder.domains table then you 
need to tell it how to serve from the file system.  (look at the docs 
for the setting up of domains I think)

>
> a) is there a way to enable this?  The document I read implied that It 
> was just a matter of placing data in the right folder.
It depends on how the server is configured

>
> b) if I enable this,  will it be tremendously slow?
not really, you only get benefits from the static serving on another 
machine because you spread the load, and you can choose server software 
that is optimized for serving static content (where as frontier is 
really better at dynamic content)
>
> c) any other ideas?  this is an intranet site so I cannot place the 
> images in an external free site, and I cannot  do direct links (i.e. 
> \\mymachine\foo.jpg) because it needs to work for both windows and 
> PC's.
>
> 2. Slightly unrelated question,  whenever I try to log in from a mac 
> machine,  the connection times out.  But this only happens when its 
> the Login page.  I am not a mac person so I am not sure how I can 
> change the timeout value for IE...

If the server and the browser are on the same machine and you are using 
ie  and mac os 9 or below then there is a thread locking issue.  There 
are work arounds, but the best one is to not use ie on the same 
machine, use netscape or mozilla or iCab.

Sam D
>
> Any suggestions for either problem are greatly appreciated!
>
> Maria Redin
>
>
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