Administrating MarkLogic Server

This section describes how to use the Admin Interface to create and configure HTTP servers.

MarkLogic Server enables you to write web applications by connecting sets of XML or JSON content to HTTP servers that can access server-side XQuery, JavaScript, and REST programs. These applications can return XHTML, XML, or JSON content to a browser or other HTTP-enabled client application.

HTTP servers are defined at the group level and are accessible by all hosts within the group. Each HTTP server provides access to a set of XQuery programs that reside within a specified directory structure. Each host in the group must have access to the directory structure or mirror the directory structure along with the program files. An HTTP server executes the server-side programs against the database to which it is connected.

HTTP servers follow the MarkLogic Server security model, as do WebDAV, ODBC, and XDBC servers. The server authenticates access to those programs using user IDs and passwords stored in the security database for that HTTP server. (Each HTTP server is connected to a database, and each database is in turn connected to a security database in which security objects such as users are stored.)

HTTP servers execute code, either from a specified location on the file system or from a Modules database.

Granular access control to the system and to the data is achieved through the use of privileges and permissions. For details on configuring security objects in MarkLogic Server, see Security Administration. For conceptual information on the MarkLogic Server security model, see Securing MarkLogic Server.