Hi Christian,

Thanks for your prompt response. I hadn't really understood the implications of that little line in the documentation, and you are correct that the server administration dialog is a little misleading.

May I ask why this is the case? Is there some technical reason that makes it unadvisable to have the GUI talking through the server/client architecture? If it's just a matter of development efforts, I would love to help, but I'm afraid my java leaves a lot to be desired...

Thanks again. Best,

jta

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi José,

thanks for your mail.

You’d probably like to hear something different, but the BaseX GUI is
not connected with the client/server architecture (you can find more
details here [1]). This is one reason why the "Server Administration"
dialog will probably removed in a future version of BaseX. We have
both received and developed prototypes for a web admin interface based
on RESTXQ [2], but we didn’t regard them as mature enough to be
officially deployed with BaseX.

Hope this helps,
Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup
[2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ
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> I am trying to run basex as a system daemon in ubuntu linux, and I have
> managed to get the server up and running on its own home dir, etc[1].
>
> I can connect to the server with both the supplied basexclient CLI utility,
> and with my own perl client (using a local implementation of the server
> API), however, I am incapable of instructing the GUI client to use the
> system server... I can connect to the system server using the "Server
> administration dialog", that works and shows users, sessions and databases
> for the running system server, but when I tried opening a database, it
> complains that it can't faind any... I assume because it is looking for them
> in my user home dir.
>
> I can see the server dbs if i enter the server data path (ie,
> /var/lib/baxsex ) as "database path" in the GUI preferences, but i obviously
> get a "permission denied" error when trying to open them as local dbs.
>
> Can the GUI client be used to connect to a running (maybe even remote)
> server instance? How?
>
> Any help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks!
>
> jta.
>
> [1] I'm using java-service-wrapper
> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/service-wrapper), with this conf and
> startup script: https://github.com/jtatria/basexd
>
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