Personalization; External Server (Portal); Server Hosted On The Webdynhome - Webdyn home Installation Manual

10 Personalization

The Webdynhome has been designed from it's inception to be totally customizable
and it is possible to create a fully personalized user interface for system users. The
principal is explained in this section.

10.1 External server (portal)

It is possible to develop a Web application hosted on an independent server that is
used to launch commands and/or sequences that exist on the
This allows total flexibility to create any kind of user interface that a customer could
desire. The principle is very simple, since the Webdynhome uses HTTP requests to
launch its own actions then all that is necessary is to embed the correct HTTP syntax
behind the portal server pages and redirect the clients request to the

10.2 Server hosted on the Webdynhome

The Webdynhome has sufficient internal memory to be able to host a simple portal
application without the need to add an external server.
This approach imposes certain restrictions :
The Web site should be created using standard HTML development tools and then
downloaded into the Webdynhome using FTP. The suggested architecture is to
create a root level directory e.g. portal and then the access to the site via the URL
below :
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/portal
Webdynhome.
For a detailed explanation of this functionality please refer to the
Webdynhome Customization Guide.
The Webdynhome operating system (OS) does not support
dynamic page formats such as asp or php
The OS imposes a DOS style naming convention for all
filenames (i.e. 8 (name) + 3 (extension) and special characters
(like spaces) are not supported
The Webdynhome has approximately 6-8 Mbytes of memory
available for your personalized Web site.
where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the
Page 65
Webdynhome.
Webdynhome.