inets(6)

APPLICATION
inets - Inets

DESCRIPTION

Inets is a container for Internet clients and servers. Currently, an HTTP server and an FTP client has been incorporated in Inets. The HTTP server is an efficient implementation of HTTP 1.0 as defined in RFC 1945, namely a Web server.

Configuration

It is possible to start a number of Web servers in an embedded system using the services config parameter from an application config file. A minimal application config file (from now on referred to as inets.config) starting two HTTP servers typically looks as follows:
[{inets,
  [{services,[{httpd,"/var/tmp/server_root/conf/8888.conf"},
              {httpd,"/var/tmp/server_root/conf/8080.conf"}]}]}].

A server config file is specified for each HTTP server to be started. The config file syntax and semantics is described in httpd(3).

inets.config can be tested by copying the example server root to a specific installation directory, as described in httpd(3). The example below shows a manual start of an Erlang node, using inets.config, and the start of two HTTP servers listening listen on ports 8888 and 8080.
$erl -config ./inets
Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 4.9

Eshell V4.9  (abort with ^G)
1>application:start(inets).
ok

SEE ALSO

httpd(3)

AUTHOR
Joakim Grebenö  - support@erlang.ericsson.se