Difference between revisions of "Mesh/Firmware/Web Admin Development"

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~~== Web Admin Development ==~~

See [[Mesh/Firmware|Firmware Wants]] for a description of what we're hoping to be able to implement with our web admin page.

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https://github.com/sudomesh/luci-app-peopleswifi

=== Luci ===

= Luci =

Luci is the web admin framework that OpenWrt ships with and seems to be a popular choice among other projects. It is written in Lua, which is a sort of procedural language that's kind of a mix between javascript and ruby (??).

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[https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages/tree/master/luci-app-bmx6 bmx6 Luci Package]

We'll likely need every AP to serve a private WPA encrypted AP even if users have their own home router so that they can config the routers securely.

~~We'll likely need every AP~~ to ~~serve~~ a ~~private WPA encrypted AP even if users have their own home router so~~ that ~~they~~ can ~~config the routers securely~~.

== Debugging ==

Luci is run as a cgi script. The script is at:

/www/cgi-bin/luci

Luci has a caching system, which should be disabled when debugging, to ensure that requests are not being answered from the cache. To disable caching, change /www/cgi-bin/luci by commenting out the following lines:

-- require "luci.cacheloader"

-- luci.dispatcher.indexcache = "/tmp/luci-indexcache"

You can run /www/cgi-bin/luci from the command line like so:

REQUEST_URI="/cgi-bin/luci HTTP/1.1" QUERY_STRING="username=root&password=<password>" /www/cgi-bin/luci

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface wikipedia article for CGI] has a list of other environment variables that can be set to pass data to a cgi script.

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-== Web Admin Development ==
 See [[Mesh/Firmware|Firmware Wants]] for a description of what we're hoping to be able to implement with our web admin page.
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 https://github.com/sudomesh/luci-app-peopleswifi
-=== Luci ===
+= Luci =
 Luci is the web admin framework that OpenWrt ships with and seems to be a popular choice among other projects. It is written in Lua, which is a sort of procedural language that's kind of a mix between javascript and ruby (??).
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 [https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages/tree/master/luci-app-bmx6 bmx6 Luci Package]
+We'll likely need every AP to serve a private WPA encrypted AP even if users have their own home router so that they can config the routers securely.
-We'll likely need every AP to serve a private WPA encrypted AP even if users have their own home router so that they can config the routers securely.
+== Debugging ==
+Luci is run as a cgi script. The script is at:
+  /www/cgi-bin/luci
+Luci has a caching system, which should be disabled when debugging, to ensure that requests are not being answered from the cache. To disable caching, change /www/cgi-bin/luci by commenting out the following lines:
+ -- require "luci.cacheloader"
+ -- luci.dispatcher.indexcache = "/tmp/luci-indexcache"
+You can run /www/cgi-bin/luci from the command line like so:
+ REQUEST_URI="/cgi-bin/luci HTTP/1.1" QUERY_STRING="username=root&password=<password>" /www/cgi-bin/luci
+The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface wikipedia article for CGI] has a list of other environment variables that can be set to pass data to a cgi script.

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