How To's

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• How do I get started?
  
  

  After you your subscription is processed you will receive an email with a username and password and a URL that points to an account that has been configured to process your MSP scripts. This initial URL has a list of MSP examples you can review and modify for your own needs.
  
  You will need an HTML editor; any of the popular ones are fine. Some html editors have ftp servers built into them. Setup an ftp program of your choice (host=www.hostsrv.com, port=21, username={your username from your confirming email}, password={your password from your confirming email}). Download an MSP Script and look at it in your html editor. Do some simple modification. Upload it to the server by using your ftp program. Try it in your browser to see if the changes worked. This gets you started programing webMathematica
  
  You will need to use the MSP documentation. Look for links for MSP and other supporting documentation on the Support page.
  
  
  

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• How do I run the KernelMonitor? (Commercial Pro Setup Accounts Only)

  Run the KernelMonitor from your password protected account, something similar to:
  
  http://www.hostsrv.com/webmab/app2/KernelMonitor
  
  where webmab maps to your TomCat4 web application, app2 is your private application, and KernelMonitor is part of the MSP application.
  
  The "Restart All Kernels" button restarts all the kernels in your kernel pool. The "Reload Monitor" button refreshes the data displayed by the KernelMonitor.
  
  The "Collect Kernel Input" and "Show Kernel Input" buttons work together to log and display data sent to the kernel. This can be helpful for debugging.
  
  The "Verbose Logging" button starts and stops some of the logging. The "Include Logging" button starts and stops the display of logging data with each refresh of the KernelMonitor data.
  
  Note that if you start getting so many hits or calculations are taking some much time that requests cannot be completed, the "Kernel Acquire Failures" will record these. Other parameters shown include many of the values set for MSP.conf parameters.
  
  
  

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• How do I run one of the example servlets?

  Double click on the link on the page with the sample servlets. Wait for a new page to load. Enter data in the servlet. Click on the enter button.
  
  
  

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• How do I keep my servlets and web pages private?

  Permissions set in the Apache web server control access to application directories. If an author wants to have private html pages or servlets, they need to be in the author's private directory. Both types of directories are setup for a new account. Licensing terms for non-commercial accounts require that your scripts be publicly accessible. The only exception is that an author my have private scripts for his own, exclusive use. Passwords for private portions of an author's directory structure are stored in an .htpasswd file in the private portion of an author's directory tree.