ini file commands

[Nickster]

Hi,

I have built a LV application that ships with the ability to be viewed over the internet. The server is automatically activated when the user opens the exe. This is accomplished via the use of commands in the ini file described in this KnowledgeBase document [broken link removed 1/21/26; article no longer available].

Unfortunately, the article does not go into futher detail on commands for setting other web server parameters. For example, I would like to be able to allow/deny access to specific addresses and domains, change the number of max licenses, etc.

In fact, if someone could direct me to a complete listing of ALL the commands that can be used in ini files, that would be spectacular!


Thanks,
Nick

P.S. - Some of you may have concerns regarding this sort of use of ini files, as do I! You want to shield people from having to deal with the pain of configuring a server a la Apache. To ease the pain and eliminate potential syntax problems, I want to create an "ini editor" to allow the user to configure the the server settings. Obviously, internet users won't have access to this file editor. Does this sound like a good idea?

[Alberto]

Hi Nick,

take a look here:
http://labview.brianrenken.com/INI/
As far as I know it's the most complete source for LV INI settings.
Good luck,

Alberto

[Nickster]

Thanks, Alberto. And big thanks to Brian Renken and everyone who's helped him compile these ini settings so far.

But still I have to imagine that this list of settings is far from complete. C'mon NI! These settings are really handy! Make the complete (or at least nearly complete) and updated list available to everyone!

[rolfk]

Nickster wrote:

> Thanks, Alberto. And big thanks to Brian Renken and everyone who's
> helped him compile these ini settings so far.
>
> But still I have to imagine that this list of settings is far from
> complete. C'mon NI! These settings are really handy! Make the
> complete (or at least nearly complete) and updated list available to
> everyone!

This list is probably as complete as it can get. Most settings up to 7.0
are really documented here. There might be some esoteric settings still
not in this list and some new ones coming with LabVIEW 7.1 and some of
the additional Toolkits etc. but I don't think you will find anything to
interesting not documented already.

As to your original request about alllow/deny settings for VI lists an
d
client addresses just configure one or two in the LabVIEW Options and
look at the resulting settings. It's not that they are not documented
because NI doesn't want to know you how they look but simply because it
is much easier to configure them in the LabVIEW Options, than trying to
fiddle with the INI file. An error in these lists could have significant
issues and so they don't want to encourage the direct INI file approach.

Rolf Kalbermatter

[Philip_Courtois]

Hi Rolf,

You should post a "Product Suggestion" by going to www.ni.com and clicking on the "Feedback" link under "Contact NI". Then your sugestion will be considered for future release.

Best regards,

Philip C.
Applications Engineer
National Instrument