Spinner is now ready to be configured. Here follows a brief explanation on the configuration interface.

The configuration interface is quite similar to the filesystem of a Macintosh. This is how it will look like, the first time you see it.

Notice the red arrows. They points on the variables set when you filled in the form on the "Welcome to Spinner" page.

The fold / unfold principle

The arrows ( ) are fold/unfold buttons. Try clicking on them and you will see how they work.

Color encoding

As you already have noticed, some arrows are red and some are blue. Why is it this way? For fun? No, actually the color encoding is a great help when you are configuring. The red colors is ment to catch your attention, showing you where unsaved changes has been made. If you press the [SAVE] button, you'll notice all arrows becoming blue instead. What you just did, was to save the www-user and password, that you configured on the first page.

Your first changes

Now when you have begun using the configuration interface, it's about time to change something. If you run Spinner as root, it might be a good idea to change the User ID and Group ID of the server, after it has started. To do this unfold Change uid and gid to under Global Variables.

As you might know, only root is allowed to open port 80. This means that if you change uid to anything else (which is highly recommended), you will have to [RESTART] Spinner, in order to enable newly added virtual server(s) using this port.

Another thing you might want to change is the configuration port which defaults to the one you was appointed to by the install script. The main reason for this, is that it might be hard to remember to use port number 18391. We change it to 4711.


Press [SAVE] to save the changes. Notice that you will have to change the URL to the configuration interface yourself (ie http://foop.bar:18830/ -> http://foop.bar:4711/), to be able to continue the configuring (this may be be fixed in future releases).

When you have finished configuring the Global Variables, it's time to add a new virtual server