The file is located in the RULES sub-directory of the parent of the web space directory of the server as returned by the dir() goserv function. i.e if the web data directory is defined as C:/WEB/HOME, then the rules directory must be in C:/WEB/RULES. The filename is "globals."port where port is the port number being used by the web server.
The globals file is a plain text file containing a number of sections, each being bounded by a keyword pair. The general format is:
keyword:{data}:Endkeyword
The keywords used are:
Where hostname is the local name defined for each entry Domains section.
When the web server starts, the Global definitions file is read by the filter (on transaction 1 only), and the variables are extracted and stored in OS/2 environment variables.
Environment variables are used to improve the performance of the filter through reduction of the I./O overhead of reading the globals file for each entry to the filter.
The variable names used are "IF_keyword". If this causes any conflict with existing environment variables, then it is easily changed in the INIT_Globals and LoadGlobals procedures within the filter.