Installation guide

3 Inside the MATLAB Web Server
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MATLAB Web Server Components
The MATLAB Web Server consists of a set of programs that enable MATLAB
programmers to create MATLAB applications and access them on the Web:
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matlabserver: Manages the communication between the Web application
and MATLAB.
matlabserver is a multithreaded TCP/IP server. It runs the MATLAB
program (M-file) specified in a hidden field named
mlmfile contained in the
HTML document.
matlabserver invokes matweb.m , which in turn runs the
M-file.
matlabserver can be configured to listen on any legal TCP/IP port by editing
the
matlabserver.conf file on Windows NT or running webconf on Solaris/
Linux. The number of simultaneous MATLABs is specified here.
•
matweb: A TCP/IP client of matlabserver. This program uses the Common
Gateway Interface (CGI) to extract data from HTML documents and transfer
it to
matlabserver.
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matweb.m: Calls the M-file that you want the Web application to run.
Two configuration files are used in conjunction with the MATLAB Web Server
programs:
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matweb.conf: A configuration file that matweb needs for connecting to
matlabserver. Applications must be listed in matweb.conf.
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hosts.conf: An optional file providing additional security. If hosts.conf is
present, only listed machines can connect to the MATLAB Web Server.
Machines are listed by name in a single column, e.g.,
parrot.mathworks.com
bluebird.mathworks.com
Machines must be listed by name, not by IP number. The operating system
resolves the name into a valid IP address.
Figure 3-1, MATLAB on the Web, is diagram showing how MATLAB operates
over the Web.