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I am sure that most developers who have tried DabbleDB have experimented with the web framework Seaside that DabbleDB is built with. I have worked through Seaside tutorials several times in the last couple of years and last month I wanted to deploy a tiny Seaside based experiment to one of my leased Linux servers. It took a short while to get it deployed because I didn't get it right the first time, so here are the simple steps that I eventually used:

• Get your Seaside application running interactively in Squeak; make sure the WAKom service is running on a desired port number with:
  WAKom startOn: 9090
  and save image and quit Squeak. Do not stop WAKom before saving your image and quitting Squeak.
• ZIP up your image and source changes:
  zip -9 -r seaside_running_image.zip Squeak3.9-final-7067.*
  copy to your Linux server, and unzip in your Linux Squeak directory.
• Run Squeak in headless mode:
  nohup squeak -headless Squeak3.9-final-7067.image &
  

OK, maybe that was more than 3 steps. If you should ever need to do a scalable deployment Ramon Leon's directions look good but I have not tried them.

Labels: Seaside, Smalltalk, Squeak