Add instructions for running VNDB as standalone web server

3 files changed, 17 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 28bf16bc..fd3d3e08 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Requirements
   util/vndb.pl:
     Algorithm::Diff::XS
     TUWF
+    HTTP::Server::Simple (optional, but greatly simplifies development setup)
     FCGI                 (optional, for running as a FastCGI script)
     PerlIO::gzip         (optional, for output compression)
 
@@ -75,32 +76,13 @@ Setup
 
   - Update the vndb_site password in data/config.pl to whatever you set it in
     the previous step.
-  - Configure a web server. To use a single subdomain for both static files
-    and the dynamic Perl code, here's a simple trick:
+  - Now simply run:
 
-      mv www/* static/
-      rmdir www
-      ln -s static www
-      ln -s ../util/vndb.pl www/cgi.pl
+      util/vndb.pl
 
-    Then use the following Apache 2.4 config:
-
-      <Directory /path/to/vndb>
-        Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
-        AllowOverride None
-        Require all granted
-      </Directory>
-
-      <VirtualHost *:*>
-        ServerName your-test-vndb
-        DocumentRoot "/path/to/vndb/www"
-
-        RewriteEngine On
-        RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_URI}" !-s
-        RewriteRule ^/ /cgi.pl
-
-        AddHandler cgi-script .pl
-      </VirtualHost>
+    (Note: At the time of writing, the above command will require the git
+    version of TUWF installed, but I intent to upload a new version to CPAN
+    after a bit more testing).
 
 
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diff --git a/data/config_example.pl b/data/config_example.pl
index 980d997a..dd714c9c 100644
--- a/data/config_example.pl
+++ b/data/config_example.pl
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ package VNDB;
   xml_pretty    => 0,
   log_queries   => 0,
   debug         => 1,
-  cookie_defaults => { path => '/' },
+  cookie_defaults => { domain => 'localhost', path => '/' },
 );
 
 %S = (
   %S,
-  url          => 'http://your.site.root/',
-  url_static   => 'http://your.static.site.root/', # Can be the same as the main url
+  url          => 'http://localhost:3000',
+  url_static   => 'http://localhost:3000',
   form_salt    => '<some unique string>',
   scrypt_salt  => '<another unique string>',
 );
diff --git a/util/vndb.pl b/util/vndb.pl
index b91aac56..46ff9e0d 100755
--- a/util/vndb.pl
+++ b/util/vndb.pl
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ TUWF::run();
 sub reqinit {
   my $self = shift;
 
+  # If we're running standalone, serve www/ and static/ too.
+  if($TUWF::OBJ->{_TUWF}{http}) {
+    if($self->resFile("$ROOT/www", $self->reqPath) || $self->resFile("$ROOT/static", $self->reqPath)) {
+      $self->resHeader('Cache-Control' => 'max-age=31536000');
+      return 0;
+    }
+  }
+
   # check authentication cookies
   $self->authInit;