About the OPeNDAP dap-server package

This software is used by two projects: The original OPeNDAP Data Server, which used CGI 1.1 in conjunction with a web server such as Apache, and the new data server (Hyrax) which uses Java Servlets in combination with the Earth System Grid/OPeNDAP Back-End Server (BES). This package contains general purpose handlers for use with either of the two servers. These are the Usage, ASCII and HTML form handlers. Each takes input from a 'data handler' and returns a HTML or plain text response --- something other than a DAP response object.

This software also contains the 'dispatch' software for the original OPeNDAP data server, comprised of several Perl modules and the Perl program 'nph-dods'. All of this software is included when you get the source code distribution. However, when you get the RPM packages or OS/X disk images (.dmg files), the CGI server software is separated in a package named 'dap-server-cgi'. The binary programs and libraries for both servers are in the 'dap-server'. In a future version we will move the binaries used by the cgi-based server to the cgi package.

To install dap-server please read the Readme file provided with this distribution. See OpeNDAP web site for more information.