ECR6 HTTP Server Information

The World Wide Web server (HTTP server) running on the ECR6 (CBE/MSE Joint Computing Facility) VMSCluster is an OpenVMS DECthreads(tm) application written at The Ohio State University. If you have problems that you believe are caused by incorrect behavior of the HTTP server, please send mail to

Server distribution

Host system requirements
Source file, http_server_3-11.tar or http_server_3-11.zip
Preview of next release, source updates, etc.

User Support Community

How to subscribe to the VMS-WEB-daemon mailing list.
Mailing list archives.
Supplementary server documenation, maintained by Brian Reed.
Supplementary CGI scripts, maintained by Arne Vajhøj.
Frequently Asked Questions

Server demonstrations

CGI script support, Hypertext VMSHELP
Server-side includes, HTML pre-processor
View archives of previous releases via targazer script
Form support from a DCL script
Clickable images, Nagel23

Other Information

Short survey for sites running DECthreads server.
Mandatory Security patch (versions 3.0..3.6b)
Mandatory Security patch (versions < 1.9c)
Usage statistics for May 1996, produced by Analog.
Description of configuration file rules.
Understanding server error messages.
How to set up server scripts and hints for writing.
Peter Flynn's How to write HTML files.
ECR6 home page and maintainers.

David Jones, The Ohio State University