RSServer Download and Installation

Download

RSServer Search Engine Friendly (SEF) free edition can be downloaded here:

Windows:

Linux:

Installation

Windows:

If you already have a web server running on the machine where you are installing RSServer, you have to stop the webserver first. Change the port the server is listening on to a port different than 80, because RRServer will listen on that port. Then restart your webserver.

For example, if you are running IIS, lunch the IIS admin console, Right click on default website, select properties. In the "Default Web Site Properties" dialog box, click on "Web Site" tab. In the "Web Site Indetification" group, change the TCP port property from 80 to 8080.

Double click on the downloaded msi file in windows explorer will bring up a graphic user interface. Simply follow the instructions to install the software. The installer installs the software as a windows service and automatically starts the service

Bring up a browser to test your web pages.

Modify the config.xml file if necessary.

Linux:

If you already have a web server running on the machine where you are installing RSServer, you have to stop the webserver first. Change the port the server is listening on to a port different than 80, because RRServer will listen on that port. Then restart your webserver.

For example, if you are running Apache, open up /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf in a text editor. In section two of the file, change "Port 80" to "Port 8080". restart the apache server by issuing: /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart.

untar the downloaded file by issuing: tar -xvf RSServer.tar

cd into RSServer/bin, become root. issue: ./start.sh. Later you can stop the server by issuing ./stop.sh

Bring up a browser to test your web pages.

Modify the config.xml file if necessary.

The installation program will also install RSServer as a windows service and automatically start the service.

Configuration

once installed the program directory layout looks like:

+ReallySimpleServer directory
    -bin
    -config
    -doc
    -logs

in config directory there is a file called config.xml. this is the only configuration file we will have to change.

what we need to write, are pairs of rewrite rules in regular expressions.

For example, if we want to change these dynamic urls:

http://www.mydomain.com/forum.asp?FID=1
http://www.mydomain.com/forum.asp?FID=2
http://www.mydomain.com/forum.asp?FID=3
								

http://www.mydomain.com/forum/FID/1.html
http://www.mydomain.com/forum/FID/2.html
http://www.mydomain.com/forum/FID/3.html
								

<rewrite>
  <request url="forum/FID/(\d+).html" format="forum.asp\?FID=$1"/>
  <response url="forum.asp\?FID=(\d+)" format="forum/FID/$1.html"/>
</rewrite>

Turnkey Services

Regular expression is kind of a programming language by itself. Many people don't have experience working with it. Some have tried once or twice but are quickly confused by the complexity of it. For these people Really Simple Software provides professional turnkey services.

You provide us with the kind of urls you want to rewite by RSServer, our regualr expression experts will write the configuration file for you. We will also test to make sure that everything works as expected before ship you the software.

The service is charged at $30/hour. If you are not familiar with regualr expressions, this is your best choice because it will take more than couple of hours before a novice is able to write usable regex rules.