Uploading to a Windows IIS Web Server

Overview

This procedure assumes that you have the Web-to-Host Wizard installed on a Windows 2000 or higher workstation, and that you are familiar with the Microsoft Windows IIS web server that you want to use as your BlueZone Web-to-Host web server.

Using the Web-to-Host Wizard, create at least one Site, one Launch Folder and one Session.  Once you have tested it using the Wizard's built-in web server, you can copy the entire Site Folder and all its contents to your Windows IIS web server for further testing.

In this example, I have created a Site called "MySite" and a Launch Folder called "MyFolder".  The Site Folder is located on my workstation in the following location:

\My Documents\MySite

Procedure

Step 1 - Upload the BlueZone Web-to-Host Web Server Files to the Web Server

  1. Copy the Site Folder "MySite" and its entire contents from your workstation to the following location on your web server keeping the file structure intact:

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MySite\

 

CAUTION!  You must not change the file structure of the Web-to-Host Web Server Files.  All folders and subfolders including all their files must be uploaded to the web server just as they were created by the Web-to-Host Wizard.  If anything is changed, you run the risk of the site becoming inoperable.

  1. This will place the Site Folder and all its contents into the "root" of the web server which will make it part of the Default Web Site for this IIS web server.

Step 2 - Configure the Web Server

  1. Launch the IIS Management Console.

  2. Select the Default Web Site.

  3. Right click and open the Properties dialog.

  4. On the Home Directory tab, set permissions to "Read" ("Write" is not necessary) and "Execute Permissions" to "Scripts only".  Running executables is not necessary.

  5. Leave all other settings at their default values.

NOTE  The following steps apply to Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers only.  If this is a Windows 2000 Server, the Web-to-Host Web Server File upload is now complete.  Please continue with Step 3 - Testing the Uploaded Files below.

For Windows 2003 Servers, please continue here:

Due to improved security features of the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server operating system, additional configuration is required.

By default, on Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers, Internet Information Services (IIS), is configured to allow the downloading of certain common files like .htm, .html, .gif, .jpg, etc.  IIS stores them in a list called the MIME Types list.  All file extensions that are not registered via the MIME Types list, can not be downloaded from the web server.  Since BlueZone Web-to-Host requires the downloading of files that are not on the list, these file types will have to be added before BlueZone Web-to-Host can operate.

For your convenience, we have provided a VBScript that will automatically add the required file types to the MIME Types list.

  1. On the BlueZone CD-ROM , or BlueZone CD Image, browse to the BlueZone Web-to-Host folder and locate the file called "mime_map.vbs".

  2. Run the script, by double clicking it.

  3. The script will run (very quickly) and you will receive the following message: "BlueZone MIME Types Successfully Added".

To learn how to view or edit the IIS MIME Types list, click here.

The Web-to-Host Web Server File upload is now complete.  Please continue with Accessing Launch Folders On Your Windows IIS Server.

Step 3 - Testing the Uploaded Files

  1. If you uploaded the Site Folder, called MySite, to the "root" of your web server, you should be able to access the contents of your Launch Folder and launch your configured Sessions by browsing to the following URL:

http://myWebServerName/MySite/MyFolder/

 

or

http://63.69.172.27/MySite/MyFolder/

 

If your HTTP web server is set up properly, the default.htm page will launch the correct Launch Page.

  1. The Web-to-Host Control Module will download and install.  Then, a web page with a BlueZone Launch Pad will be displayed.  The Launch Pad will contain icons for one or more BlueZone emulation clients.

  2. Continue the test by launching a BlueZone emulation client session by double clicking one of the icons.

  3. If you have both Internet Explorer users and Netscape users, be sure to test with both browsers.

NOTE  When conducting browser tests, it’s okay to run IE and Netscape at the same time however, you can not launch a BlueZone display session from one browser then launch the same BlueZone display session from the other.  The second session will not launch.  You must close down the first BlueZone session (not the browser) before launching the same BlueZone session with the other browser.

Congratulations!  You have successfully configured and uploaded your BlueZone-Web-to-Host Web Server Files to your web server.