Webtools - Configure installed Unslung and other packages

[Styno]

Can anyone tell me how much space the Asus webserver and website requires in the firmware?

[Oleg]

[root@wl500gx root]$ du /www -s
1356    /www

so, 1356k uncompressed.

[Mr.EoniX]

The thttpdphp package is unavailable to me - even after updating ipkg.

Im getting this respond:

[admin@dhcppc0 bin]$ ipkg install thttpdphp
Cannot find package thttpdphp.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.

Am i doing something wrong?


EoniX

[dankan]

Check here for thttpdphp:
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=2167

[Mr.EoniX]

yeah saw it - have it working here as well.... now all i want to get working is my samba - but have another thread open for my questions about that.

Still cant get it working

[Styno]

This topic ain't about thttpdphp, it's about WebTools

Is there anyone who actually tried WebTools with suggestions, complaints, bugs, ideas around? There are nearly 80 downloads now, so the lack of feedback could mean two things: Either it sucks so badly it's not worth any comments or its perfect allready (both which I honestly do not believe).

So...?

[tomilius]

Well, I don't use vsftpd and most-likely never will. I have a bit of advice... Maybe you can classify certain configuration parameters as advanced and then have a button similar to "Show Advanced" so that it won't be overwhelming for new users (there's a lot of options there that I doubt new users would look at). Stuff like presets or wizards would probably be neat.

Other than that, I think it's alright. It's not that it sucks... it's just that there's not all that much there to practically test yet. I think it's kind of tricky and not automated enough yet, but other than that nice work.

Now, using the vsftpd plugin as an example, it's OK in that it's a fairly easier to understand representation but truth be told you might as well just serve out the configuration file with some comments within and then put a "submit" button at the bottom and the effect would be fairly similar--but I realize that's only because it was a quick test and still has newbie-confusing variable names and such.

Pretty good, but again, I probably wouldn't use it--at least not yet. Nice work.

[Styno]

Wow, this is the kind of feedback i was hoping for. Thanks!

Maybe you can classify certain configuration parameters as advanced and then have a button similar to "Show Advanced" so that it won't be overwhelming for new users (there's a lot of options there that I doubt new users would look at).

That's a good idea and it seems to me that this could be easilly incorporated.

Stuff like presets or wizards would probably be neat.

Presets are allready working. When you run the plugin for the first time it will configure the settings to default.

Wizards seem like a neat feature. I'm going to have a look at that, but it seems it could be a lot of work.

it's just that there's not all that much there to practically test yet. I think it's kind of tricky and not automated enough yet, but other than that nice work.

Well, it seemed better to me that I would start with only one plugin. This is because it would cost me too much time to maintain a bunch of plugins while lots of code is still changing every release.

Now, using the vsftpd plugin as an example, it's OK in that it's a fairly easier to understand representation but truth be told you might as well just serve out the configuration file with some comments within and then put a "submit" button at the bottom and the effect would be fairly similar

Well, that's indeed practically what WebTools is doing

but I realize that's only because it was a quick test and still has newbie-confusing variable names and such.

Yes, I've got some more comments on the confusing variable names thing. I suggest it would be a nice option to be able to show a short description instead of the variable name. Like "allow_anon_ssl" might become: "Allow secure annonymous connections" and then show the variable name using a tooltip.

Conclusion: There's a lot to be done on the presentation and to lower the accessability to newbies.