Deploying Program D and an information retrieval application on a web server

[JoeyT]

Hi guys,

I’m in need of your help.

I’m currently doing a project involving a slightly adapted version of
program d running in conjunction with a second java application which is
used to retrieve information from the internet and relay that info to the
bot. What I want is to deploy the combined system on a web server so that
people can go and chat to the bot and I also need to be able to access the
conversation logs so that I can do some analysis on them.

What I want to know is what is the best way to go about this? I have already
tried using pandorabots to host the bot, but it appears that I can’t alter
some of the configuration files (in particular the predicates.xml that is in
the conf folder in program d binary) that I am going to need to change.

So I assume I will need my own webserver (or host server) to get the system
running. What I would like to know is would it be easiest to just upload the
already compiled web version of program d (downloaded from aitools.org and
including a WAR file and a couple of other folders) straight onto a server?
If I went about it this way I would also upload my own information-retrieval
application as a second war file on the server (is this possible?) and have
the two running side-by-side on the server. I would use the <system> tag of
AIML (or <javascript>?) to transfer information between the two when needed.
Is this feasible/efficient as a way of deploying the system? Or would it be
easier to integrate the source code of program D and my Java app into one
and then upload just the one WAR file?

Also would I need to use a database to store conversation logs? I assumed so
but found that my binary non-web version of program D seems to save logs
anyway in the var/programd folder…

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Joe

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[Josip Almasi]

Joe Tallett wrote:

> So I assume I will need my own webserver (or host server) to get the
> system running. What I would like to know is would it be easiest to just
> upload the already compiled web version of program d (downloaded from
> aitools.org and including a WAR file and a couple of other folders)
> straight onto a server? If I went about it this way I would also upload
> my own information-retrieval application as a second war file on the
> server (is this possible?) and have the two running side-by-side on the
> server. I would use the <system> tag of AIML (or <javascript>?) to
> transfer information between the two when needed. Is this
> feasible/efficient as a way of deploying the system? Or would it be
> easier to integrate the source code of program D and my Java app into
> one and then upload just the one WAR file?

It's probably easyer via system tag but usually you can't perform system
calls from a war just like that, therefore - use the source.

> Also would I need to use a database to store conversation logs? I
> assumed so but found that my binary non-web version of program D seems
> to save logs anyway in the var/programd folder…

Well it doesn't hurt:)

> Any advice would be much appreciated.

Well here's my advice: I happen to understand D source (though I'm a bit
rusty), I run a D on a non-profit server with db and web etc, and I work
in an open-source company; so, drop me a mail with more details, I can
help you with deployment in either non- or for-profit case. Like, give
you shell acc, your own server instance, patch the source etc.

Regards...
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