Initialization

After the initial installation, you will be presented with a simple install acknowledgment and a process to initialize and create the first instance. Under OS X this will be a web page; under Linux you will see output in the terminal giving the URL http://your-server-domain.name/lasso9/instancemanager.

When Lasso Instance Manager is run for the first time, it will look for an existing Lasso Server installation that was installed through the Lasso Server 9.0 installer and will import that instance. No files will be removed. The Admin LassoApp will be updated and any existing Lasso Server 9.0 Apache 2 configuration file will be disabled.

If no existing Lasso Server 9.0 instance is located, a new Lasso Server instance will be created named “default”. This default instance will be configured with the same administrative username and password that was selected when first initializing Lasso Instance Manager, and is set up to respond to all host names.

Each instance in the list shows:

• Current licensing mode, based on the instance serial number, if any.
• Current run status: red is not running, yellow is running but with a developer license, green is running and fully licensed.
• Instance name
• Instance version (as of 9.2.5)
• Instance uptime

Additionally, a row of buttons on the right permit access to the following:

• Instance configuration: instance name, description, admin URL, home path, OS user, host pattern, Disable Instance button, Delete Instance button
• Instance notes
• Instance output log
• Instance environment variables
• Instance admin link
• Restart Instance buttonLasso Server for MAC – Integrated language & server platform for data-driven Web applications. This app was released by LASSOSOFT Inc. and now updated into the latest version. Download this Internet Utilities app for free now on Apps4Mac.comThis documentation describes how to install and configure an environment that will allow Lasso 9 to run with a custom installation of Apache 2.4.x on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 or CentOS 6.4.

  Apache 2.2.x is the supported version for RHEL 6.4/CentOS 6.4. At the time of this writing, LassoSoft supports only officially supported packages and libraries of the operating system. Similarly documentation of how to install Apache 2.4.x is outside the scope of this documentation. That’s what tehGoogle is for.

  Lasso Server is a next-generation object-oriented Web programming language that incorporates advanced Web-application server administration. Lasso Server is built with a distributed architecture, has wide platform and data source support, and unprecedented extensibility and customization. Redesigned and rewritten documentation at lassoguide.com and over 200 new methods types and traits giving you built-in new features and enhancements options. Using ‘Just-in-time’ native compilation for faster response times, Lasso is a performance language that is accessible to a wide developer base.

  Lasso integrates with the built-in Apache Web server in OS X or OS X Server. Lasso 9.2 and up run on 64-bit Intel based Macs. A new admin interface added in 9.1 allows developers, hosting providers, and enterprise administrators to manage multiple instances of Lasso with ease: the main Lasso Instance Manager interface displays of a list of all known Lasso 9 instances on that machine. Below the list is a button allowing a new instance to be created quickly, and custom configuration applied to just that instance.

  Each instance in the list shows:

  • Current licensing mode, based on the instance serial number, if any (runs in Developer mode if no license applied)
  • Current run status: red is not running, yellow is running but with a provisional license, green is running and fully licensed
  • Instance version
  • Instance uptime
  • Instance status In addition, a row of buttons permit access to the following:
  • Instance details: instance name, description, url, home path, OS user, host pattern, disable instance, delete instance
  • Instance notes
  • Instance output log
  • Instance environment variables
  • Instance URL link

  Features

  • Cross-platform Deployable – Deploy on Mac or Linux servers for the ultimate in flexibility and systems integration. FastCGI support makes it easy to connect to Apache, IIS, and most other Web servers. Manage users, data-sources, and email queues, adjust settings, execute SQL queries, and more. Free to develop in. Users purchase a license when going live with a website or where needing access internally across more than 5 ip’s and 200 connections.
  • Document Mangement – Create, modify, combine, and serve print-ready documents in PDF, Rich Text, and other formats containing complex layouts which utilize tables, forms, graphics, and bar codes.
  • Image Manipulation – Create, layer, rotate, scale, overlay, crop, and convert various types of images with built in image management support via the powerful ImageMagick library.
  • Database Connectivity – Lasso 9 Server includes native connectors for MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, FileMaker, and more, and can also use standard ODBC drivers, as well as access directory servers (LDAP and Active Directory) and other sources.
  • Web Services Integration – Create and/or consume Web services with built-in support for common protocols such as XML-RPC. Easily create RESTful Web services utilizing native support for traversing and manipulating JSON and XML objects. Lasso 9 Server makes working with third party API’s a breeze.
  • Email Services – Compose and send plain text, HTML, or multi-part emails, including attachments, directly from Lasso 9 Server. Programmatically retrieve messages from POP accounts and decode attachments.
  • Ultimate Multi-lingual compatibility – Lasso 9 is fully Unicode native the whole way through. Manage and publish multi-lingual documents with confidence, read and write files and work with text in any character set.
  • Extensibility – Extend the native capabilities of Lasso 9 Server with API’s for C and Java. Interact with other server processes at the command line level.
  • Date and Time Management – Convert dates between different display formats and time zones, work with durations, and schedule repeating events. Create and consume event calendars with native support for the standard iCalendar format. Object-oriented from the ground up, Lasso 9 is a powerful fully resourced and flexible programming language that provides a full Web development platform and yet is still friendly and easy-to-use. Execute scripts embedded within Web pages or directly from the command line.
  • Support for the LassoLab IDE – From Lasso Server 9.2 and up comes the ability to run the LassoLab IDE for fast and error free development using the debugger, syntax assistance, code-completion and many more tools.

  Lasso bridges the gap between popular Web servers (Apache, IIS, or any FastCGI-compliant server), data sources (MySQL, FileMaker, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and OpenBase), and various other communication tools , utilities, and protocols such as email (POP and SMTP), directory services (LDAP and Active Directory), web services (SOAP XMLRPC), and PDF generation. Lasso embraces open standards so it’s easy to work with a wide range of data sources, Web servers, and platforms. Web applications that are developed on one platform can be seamlessly deployed on another. The LassoLab IDE partner includes tools such as Lasso-specific syntax coloring, code completion, error checking, and debugging capabilities.

  What’s new in this version:.

  Added instance restart confirmation in instance manager.

  Display of the added name in the collapsed view of instances in the instance manager.

  Changed handling methods and re-defined types so that they are ignored if the source hadn’t changed.

  Resolved Windows related performance and stability issues
  Requirements :.

  Lasso 9 integrates with IIS through a custom ISAPI for IIS. 2 GHz 64-bit 2 GB RAM (most recommended) Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 Apache 2.2 or Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 or higher. (IIS is included in the operating system editions listed above and can be installed from the Windows installation CD) Sun JRE 1.4 (Java 2) compatible Java Virtual Machine (required for Java-based components) ImageMagick installed – see Lasso Installation Guide 9 Windows Server

  Limitations:

  5 ips and 200 connections