PIMnet Web Interface

1. Introduction

The PIMnet Web Interface is a set of CGI scripts, written in the Python language, which provides Web access to Palm data stored in the PIMnet XML format.

2. Installation

To install the PIMnet Web Interface, first go to the Downloads page and choose an appropriate archive for your platform. Expand this into some directory which we'll refer to henceforth as WEBACCESS.

(Alternately, if you happen to have a copy of the "pimnet" source tree from PIMnet's CVS repostitory, you can consider the pimnet/webaccess subdirectory to be your installation directory.)

Now configure your Web server to execute CGI scripts in the WEBACCESS directory, identifying this directory by its full path. The exact procedure depends on which Web server you are using. For example, if you are using Apache, you might put something like this in your httpd.conf:

ScriptAlias /pimnet/ /home/jhmark/pimnet/webaccess/

<Directory /home/jhmark/pimnet/webaccess/>
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    SetEnv PIMNET_XMLDATE /home/webuser/.pimnet-xmlDate
    SetEnv PYTHONPATH /home/webuser/lib/python
</Directory>
      

Now, after restarting the web server, you should be able to access your PIMnet data using something like this URL:

http://myserver/pimnet/pimnet-calendar.py?user=jhmark