The question of "how do I deploy a seaside or web velocity application" comes up a fair amount, so I thought I'd post the steps I use. For Web Velocity, we have videos on this here.

Once I get the image and VM up to the server, I do the following:

• For Seaside/VW apps, I use command line arguments to filein a loader script
• For Web Velocity, that directory is called "autoload" - just put the parcels there. It will load things alphabetically, so arrange things such that things work under that constraint.
• Set up some Apache rules for the application - here's an example for a path like /myApplication, where the Seaside/Velocity app has been registered as myApplication

RewriteRule ^myApplication(.*) http://127.0.0.1:7777/myApplication$1 [P]
ProxyPassReverse /myApplication http://127.0.0.1:7777/myApplication

And if you want a simple url that redirects there:

RewriteRule	/pathIWantToMakePublic	/myApplication/RegisteredSeasideNameHere

And that's pretty much that. To run the application, I set up a script with this line in it to start the image:

./visual myImage.im -headless &

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