Roxen Webserver

Orcon proudly runs the award-winnning Roxen Webserver for most of it's hosting services.

The Roxen platform provides a powerful XML-compliant scripting and programming language called "RXML" - the RoXen Macro Language". Using RXML in your web development can provide easy, inline access to condition-based content display, SQL database content, form-to-email modules and more. It provides functionality similar to CGI programming - with ease of use from HTML-like tags within any HTML page. It's native scripting language enhances performance and provides greater security than traditional CGI languages.

Documentation

Searchable Roxen 2.1 Documentation - Mirrored regularly from the Official Roxen documentation, and used on our EasyHost² and ProHost packages.

Roxen modules available on our webservers (version 2.x plaforms only)

Mailit (Roxen 2.1 - EasyHost²) - sending email from forms within a HTML page.

Emboard - A custom module/package written by Orcon which allows you to put a guestbook, webboard or forum on your website. Little programming skills are required to get started, but the module is quite customisable and custom layouts can be used.

Useful Information and Tutorials

The basics of if-else statments - Show and hide specific portions of your html pages - based on custom parameters such as form input or the ip address of your website visitor.

Using databases with Roxen 2.1 - A quick overview on how to make changes, and view the results of SQL queries on a Roxen 2.1 powered web page..

Support

Support for Roxen can be obtained via the following means:

The Offical Website - www.roxen.com

Roxen Community - community.roxen.com

Roxen Mailing list archive @ eGroups

roxenhelp@orcon.net.nz

The last item is an email address for our technicians at Orcon. We provide best effort assistance over email - but can be contracted for consultancy and advanced programming for specialist site needs.

Legacy Support Information

The following information is applicable for older hosting configurations only:

Mailit (Roxen 1.3 - for our old EasyHost package) - sending email from forms within a HTML page.

Roxen Challenger 1.3 [PDF] - used for our EasyHost¹ package (no longer available)