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Uploading to Windows IIS web server

This procedure assumes that you have the Web-to-Host Wizard installed on a Windows Vista or later 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

  1. Start the IIS Management Console.
  2. Select the default website.
  3. Right-click and select Properties.
  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.
    Leave all other settings at their default values.

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 start 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 file will start the correct launch page.

  2. 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.
  3. Continue the test by starting a BlueZone emulation client session by double clicking one of the icons.
  4. Be sure to test with all the browsers you plan on using.
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