Web site hosting?

General
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Hello,

Are you planning on hosting websites to interact with the imp? If not, do you have any recommendations on a host?

Thanks,

-diesel

2

I tend to spin up Amazon EC2 instances when i need to test something. For new users the micro instances are free for the first year. I’ve been using the Bitnami AMI instances but there are lots of alternatives.

3

I will check into it, thanks!

4
  1. Openshift is also free for basic version. Good enough to do much work.
  2. Also I use Google App Engine (GAE) which is free and can server 70k page views per day for free.

I am using GAE since 3 years. Started using OpenShift recently…

5

AppHarbor (for .net), PagodaBox (for php) and Heroku (for ruby, and js) are what folks around the office like using.

All of these services allow you to push code to a repository hosted on their servers as a means of deploying which is pretty cool.

If you’re looking at a single page type application, you can also just host it out of an agent. Take a look at our SnackBot agent code as an example.

6

It belongs in my stomach module.

7

I’m modifying the Snackbot code for my temperature monitor. How would I display a n agent variable in the HTML?

I guess I could have the HTML ask for it…or make a function to pass the variable and then return the HTML? If the HTML is text I guess I could use format string…

8

That’s how we typically do it (with a format).

9

So I split up the HTML… can I do something like this?

local html = format(html1 + “%s”, probe1 + html2);

10

Yeah, that should work. I’ve also done some basic templating code for webpages in Squirrel - it’s not a very complex/complete example (it only returns a 404 page), but it should give you an idea of how you break things apart to build better in-agent webpages.

`page <- @"


%s
%s

";

head <- @"
SportsBall Team Picker 2000



<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0'>
<style>.center { text-align: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-top: auto; }</style>

";

notFound <- @“


Oops, 404


the page you were looking for could not be found



”;

function renderPage(body) {
return format(page, head, body);
}

http.onrequest(function(req, resp) {
try {
resp.send(404, renderPage(notFound));
} catch (ex) {
resp.send(500, "Internal Server Error: " + ex);
}
});`

11

Yeah, just realized that it works :slight_smile: Thanks!

Got it working on my thermocouple monitor

12

I guess I assumed that when you used the string literal that you couldn’t format it?