The TclHttpd Distribution

Get the TclHttpd distribution from the CD-ROM, or find it on the Internet at:

ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/httpd/

http://www.scriptics.com/tclhttpd/

Quick Start

Unpack the tar file or the zip file, and you can run the server from the httpd.tcl script in the bin directory. On UNIX:

tclsh httpd.tcl -port 80

This command will start the Web server on the standard port (80). By default it uses port 8015 instead. If you run it with the -help flag, it will tell you what command line options are available. If you use wish instead of tclsh, then a simple Tk user interface is displayed that shows how many hits the server is getting.

On Windows you can double-click the httpd.tcl script to start the server. It will use wish ...

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