# getting started quickly with Webmachine
Author: Basho Technologies
Keywords: webmachine http rest web

# webmachine

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### getting started quickly with Webmachine

Make sure that you have a working Erlang/OTP release, R12B5 or later.

Get the webmachine code:

    hg clone http://bitbucket.org/justin/webmachine/ webmachine-read-only

Build webmachine:

    cd webmachine-read-only
    make

Create, build, and start the skeleton resource:

    ./scripts/new_webmachine.erl mywebdemo /tmp
    cd /tmp/mywebdemo
    make
    ./start.sh

Take a look! Point a web browser at http://localhost:8000/

To make this resource handle URI paths other than /, add more dispatch terms in /tmp/mywebdemo/priv/dispatch.conf; to make that resource to more interesting things, modify the resource itself at /tmp/mywebdemo/src/mywebdemo_resource.erl.

To learn how to do more interesting things, check out some examples or read more documentation.