DatabaseName (DBN) protocol option

Specifies the name of a database to use when processing web requests, or uses the REQUIRED or AUTO keyword to specify whether database names are required as part of the URL.

Syntax

{ DatabaseName | DBN }={ AUTO | REQUIRED | database-name }

Remarks

If this parameter is set to REQUIRED, the URL must specify a database name.

If this parameter is set to AUTO, the URL may specify a database name, but does not need to do so. If the URL contains no database name, the default database on the server is used to process web requests. Since the server must determine whether the URL contains a database name when set to AUTO, you should avoid ambiguity in your web site design.

If this parameter is set to the name of a database, that database is used to process all web requests. The URL must not contain a database name.

Example

The following command starts two HTTP web services—one for your-first-database.db and one for your-second-database.db:

dbsrv12 -xs 
    http(port=80;dbn=your-first-database) 
    http(port=8800;dbn=your-second-database) 
    your-first-database.db your-second-database.db

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