vqServer The control centre


The control centre is the main means of controlling vqServer. You can use the control centre to manage your vqServer installation from a web browser running on your own computer or on any computer connected to your network.

Starting the control centre

  1. Start up your web browser, click on its Address box, type http://localhost:9090 and press the Enter key. You will be asked for a name and password.
  2. Enter the administrator name and password (the default name and password are admin and admin). The control centre welcome page will be displayed.

It's a good idea to add the control centre welcome page to your browser's bookmarks or favourites list.

Using the control centre

  • Try to use the navigation links provided by the control centre instead of your browser's BACK button unless otherwise instructed by the control centre. This will ensure that the data displayed is up to date and the commands available are appropriate.
  • The exception is vqServer's context-sensitive help pages. If you reach one of these by clicking on the Help option at the top of the control centre menu you should use your browser's BACK button to return to the appropriate control centre page.
  • Control centre pages look best when your web browser's window is maximised.
  • Directory and file names are represented by something like dir/subdir/file.ext by the control centre and in this documentation. That is, the separator character is always / even if your computer normally uses another character, like \, for this pupose. vqServer translates / to \ internally if necessary. This does not apply to anything you enter on your computer's command line or to parameters passed to CGI scripts.
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Control centre menu

The control centre menu is displayed on the right-hand side of most control centre pages. The menu is context-sensitive and there are some pull-down submenus.

Help Links to the appropriate page of this documentation.
Servers Displays the servers page and a submenu of the servers managed by vqServer console and the control centre.
Servers sub-menu Clicking on a server's name displays that server's options submenu.
Server Start of the server options submenu.
Start or Stop Starts or stops the server.
Settings Displays the server's settings.
Files Displays the server's files page.
Aliases Displays the server's aliases page.
Log files Displays the server's log settings.
Hits Displays the server's hits page.
Users Displays vqServer's users page.
Access control lists Displays vqServer's access control lists page.
File types Displays the File types page.
Sessions Displays the sessions control page.
System settings Displays the vqServer system settings.
Java libraries Displayes the Java libraries page.
Other Displays a pull-down sub-menu of miscellaneous functions:
About Displays information about vqServer and the vqServer version you are using.
Save settings Saves the vqServer configuration file and log files.
Reset logs (ext) Closes all log files for all servers, renames them with the extension ext and opens fresh log files.
Disconnect all Aborts all the connections (HTTP requests) that vqServer is currently handling (except for the connection handling the disconnection). Can sometimes kill errant Java servlets and CGI scripts.
Stop servlets Stops all currently loaded servlets (by calling their destroy method) and unloads them from memory.
Flush cache Empties vqServer's internal file cache.
vqServer home Links to the vqServer home page at vqSoft. Check this site regularly for news about vqServer and other vqSoft products.


vqServer version 1.9. Copyright © 1997-2000 Steve Shering and vqSoft.Last updated 3 November 1999.

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