Installing a Web Designer Production Environment On Windows

After you have developed and designed a web application, and this application has been tested, a production environment needs to be set up. Here are the additional requirements for setting up a production environment.

You must set up a computer that will act as a web server. This web server computer must contain the following software:

•Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), included in current Windows versions.

•Microsoft Component Services (COM+), included in current Windows versions.

•The USoft Application Server installation, including the Microsoft XML parser.

You also need to:

•Register and configure the USoft Page Engine in Component Services.

•Generate a conceptual flat file (with the CON extension) for the web application.

•Create physical tables on the database server.

•Initialize run-time authorization.

•Copy the web server publication folder, and all other necessary files to the web server.

Client computers must use a web browser, such as Internet Explorer 9 or higher, or the latest version of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Internet Explorer versions older than version 9 are not supported. This is to ensure that colors and layout are optimized, because these aspects of a web page are defined in cascading style sheets. Also, JavaScript must be enabled.