clover/roswww_static

roswww_static

roswww_static creates a static web directory for your ROS-powered system with symlinks to all the www subdirectories found in your ROS packages. This way you can use any external web server (e. g. nginx, Monkey, Caddy) to serve you static data, in compatible with roswww manner.

Note: you should configure your web server to make it follow symlinks.

Instructions

• Run update script and it will generate the symlinks and index file: rosrun roswww_static update.
• Point your static web server path to ~/.ros/www.

You can rerun update if the list of installed packages changes.

Parameters

Parameters are passed through environment variables:

• ROSWWW_INDEX – path for index page, otherwise packages list would be generated.
• ROSWWW_DEFAULT – if set then the index page would redirect to this package's page.