Home Page: http://barracudaserver.com/products/BarracudaDrive/

BarracudaDrive is a secure application server with an integrated scripting language, database engine, WebDAV server, Web File Manager, tiny SSL server, HTTPS tunnel, and various SLL VPN clients for the HTTPS tunnel.

• NOTE The following information is for the Unslung version of BarracudaDrive 3.9.1. The new version is only available for SlugOS BE. See the following for a tutorial on how to install BD for the SlugOS: SlugOS for dummies

_WARNING_ Check the file protections of the *.dat files in the install directory after configuration. They were created with mode 0666 on my system. Further, the user passwords are stored in clear-text in the user.dat file in version 3.9.1. The new version encrypts the password file.

This release is based on the new BarracudaDrive release 3.9, thus it includes a Content Management System (Web Page Creator) and a forum with RSS feed.

BarracudaDrive, or BD for short, is a product developed by using the Barracuda Embedded Web Server SDK and is well suited for running on the NSLU2. BarracudaDrive is a commercial product, but we are offering a free version for Unslung.

See the following BD-NSLU2 home page for more information regarding this release:
http://barracudadrive.net/blog/2008/03/BarracudaDrive-for-Linksys-NSLU2

Unlike the BarracudaDrive Windows version, the BarracudaDrive NSLU2 version has no license controller and can be used free of charge for any non commercial use.

Unslung instructions:

• You must read the Non-Commercial Version License file before downloading: http://barracudadrive.net/license/NSLU2.txt
• Download http://barracudaserver.com/products/BarracudaDrive/bd.unslung.3-9.tar.gz
• Unzip to any directory, but you may want to create a dedicated directory for BD such as /home/bd
• Start server with the following command
  ./bdd –p8080 –s8443
  where 8080 is the HTTP port number and 8443 is the HTTPS port number.
• You can also start the server as a daemon: ./bdd –p8080 –s8443 -d
• Configure the server as explained in the readme file.

You can run BarracudaDrive as the default web server. This is also explained in the readme file.

For (Web) Developers

The SQLite? database engine and the Lua scripting language are integrated into the BarracudaDrive server. The server supports what is known as Lua Server Pages (LSP). BarracudaDrive LSP applications are deployed as standard ZIP files. The ZIP files, which are in the "applications" sub directory, are loaded, mounted as read only file systems, and started by the application server. The integrated scripting language LSP is similar to how ASP and PHP works. The server can also load "non deployed" applications. The "non deployed" LSP are compiled on demand just like PHP and ASP pages are compiled.

Developers can customize and write their own applications by using the integrated LSP engine. The integrated database engine makes it possible to create configuration less database powered applications such as the CMS. The server also includes Bindows, a "zero-footprint" Rich Internet WEB 2.0 Application framework. Database and AJAX powered WEB 2.0 applications such as the included Electronic Bulletin Board can easily be developed using the BarracudaDrive application server.

See the online LSP documentation for more information: http://barracudaserver.com/doc/Lua/