I intend to create a web based application server.
The server is implemented in C and I wish to create a web based interface instead of a specific client application.
Could anyone please suggest what approach/technology I can use to implement ?
Thank you.
-Mac
So what interface does this "server" of yours currently expose, and how far can you change that if necessary? For example, if the interface is or includes some form of inter-process communication, you may want to proxy from HTTP to this with a separate process (some general purpose higher-level language such as Perl, Python or Ruby should ease that); if you can embed one of these interpreters (or some alternative ones such as LUA or Tcl) that would work, too; if your server exposes a C-callable interface (and lives in a DLL or a static library) you could use SWIG to wrap it for the purpose of interfacing higher level languages; and so on, and so forth.
The one general suggestion would be to use a higher-level language as a buffer between the C code in your existing server and the HTTP interface you want to offer -- it WILL make things much easier than trying to have C carry all the weight, in the long run.
If the existing application has an API across TCP then it sounds like it should be easy to add a fastCGI interface along side of this. Then write a web based front end using basic html, css with ajax calls to the fastCGI based App.