Uploading to Windows IIS web server

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.

This example uses a site named MySite and a launch folder named MyFolder. The site folder is located in the following location:

\My Documents\MySite

Step 1: Uploading the Web-to-Host web server files to the web server

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\

Important

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.

This places the site folder and all its contents into the root of the web server which makes it part of the Default website for this IIS web server.

Step 2: Configuring the web server

Launch the IIS Management Console.

Select the default website.

Right-click and select Properties.

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

On the BlueZone CD-ROM, or BlueZone CD image, browse to the BlueZone Web-to-Host folder and locate the mime_map.vbs file.

Double-click the mime_map.vbs file to run the script.

The script runs very quickly and you receive the following message BlueZone MIME Types Successfully Added.

Refer to Configuring MIME types in IIS on Windows 2003 web servers to learn how to view or edit the IIS MIME Types list.

The Web-to-Host web server file upload is now complete.

Step 3: Testing the uploaded files

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/

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.

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.

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

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

Note

When conducting browser tests, it is acceptable 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.