Generic Configuration Form Manager

List of configuration forms

Welcome to the Generic Configuration Form Manager.

Generic Configuration Form Manage (GCFM) is a small web server which provides some web service to update configuration file. A web-service skeleton is provide in directory skel as an example to develop specific configuration file editor. Mostly one need to customize the help tab message and the import/export function in the script.inc.js file.

Moreover, GCFM also provides a form to configure the minimalist web server in order to enable configuration editor services. It allows to:

load the web server configuration file from a server,
save a modified web server configuration file to a server,
apply modification on server (usually,it restart a daemon),
import a web server configuration file from local file-system,
export a modified configuration to local file-system,
and, obviously, to change alias name, directory name, configuration file name and service description of installed configuration file editors.

The user interface is split into 5 area. On top and in the bottom, there are descriptive header and footer. On left there a menu panel follow by a short sub area displaying useful tricks. The central area shows main information and control button. Just between this area and the footer, there's a status bar to display informative messages and errors.

Introduction

There's, on the left side, a menu containing 6 buttons. The first one, named "List", shows a tab containing the list of available configuration forms and action buttons. For common users, here is the list of direct links to configuration editors. The second one, named "Help", shows a tab containing current information message. The third button, named "Edit", switches to the editor tab where entry forms are present to update alias name, directory name, configuration file name and service description of installed configuration file editors. Other buttons are linked to direct actions such as.

the "Load" button which is used to load the configuration file from a server,
the "Save" button which is used to save a modified configuration file to a server,
the "Apply" button which is used to apply modification on server as it usually restart a daemon to take into account of last changes,
the "Import" button which is used to import a configuration file from local file-system,
the "Export" button which is used to export a configuration file to local file-system.

Alias file format

Alias file format is CSV format where dash (#) can be used to comment end of line. Each line is composed of five fields separated by a semicolon (;):

the first one is the alias name, used to serve a configuration form,
the second one is the directory name containing files served for the corresponding alias,
the third one is the configuration file which is edited by the form,
the forth one is a description used by the main page to provide a understandable list of forms,
and the last one, is a specific command to be executed on apply order.

Special cases:

if the alias name is empty, the description field is used as a header line,
if the config file name is empty, the last field is used to define an action button,
if the description field is empty, the line will not be displayed; usually, it define the CSV configuration file of a XCFE form.

General condition of usages

Generic Configuration Form Manager is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.