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Uploading to other web servers

If you want to upload the BlueZone Web-to-Host web server files to a web server that is not listed, follow this general procedure.

If you are familiar with configuring and accessing HTML pages from your web server, you should have little to no problem if you follow this procedure.
Note: If you can browse to your web server from your Windows PC using a program like Samba, that will also work.

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 web server for further testing.

In this example, a site called MySite and a launch folder called MyFolder have been created. The site folder is located on the workstation in the following location:

\My Documents\MySite

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

  1. Create a directory in the root (publishing directory) of your web server (example: bluezone). This will be the top-level folder for the Web-to-Host web server files.
  2. On the machine where the Web-to-Host Wizard is installed, locate the place where your Web-to-Host web server files are stored. This would be the place where you stored all the sites that you created with the Web-to-Host Wizard. Keep in mind that you may have only created one site.
  3. 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:
    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.
  4. 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 website for this web server.

Step 2: Configuring the web server

  1. Set file permissions to read (write is not necessary) and execute scripts (running executables is not necessary) and directory browsing is not necessary.
  2. For UNIX and Linux servers, assuming that you uploaded all the BlueZone Web-to-Host web server files to a directory called bluezone, then issuing the command chmod 755 bluezone should set the proper file permissions for the bluezone directory. Also, make sure that all the files located below the bluezone directory inherit these same file permissions.

Step 3: Testing the uploaded files

  1. From any Windows workstation, start your browser.
  2. Type in the URL of your web server, followed by /bluezone/mysite/myfolder (or whatever you called the folder where BlueZone Web-to-Host is installed). For example:

    http://63.69.143.23/bluezone/mysite/myfolder

    Or

    http://www.myhost.com/bluezone/mysite/myfolder

    If your web server is set up properly, the default.htm file will open the correct launch page.

  3. 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.
  4. Continue the test by starting a BlueZone emulation client session by double clicking one of the icons.
    Tip: If you want to connect to a UNIX or Linux host use BlueZone VT.
  5. If your users are using both Internet Explorer and other browsers, be sure to test with all browsers.
    Note: When conducting browser tests, it’s okay to run IE and other browsers at the same time however, you cannot start a BlueZone display session from one browser then start the same BlueZone display session from the other. The second session will not start. You must close the first BlueZone session (not the browser) before starting the same BlueZone session with the other browser.
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