Ecommerce – Additional Configuration Steps Required for IIS 7 and 64-bit Machines.
The following text is taken from the Data Access support team blog.
The default Windows settings
constantly change and starting with Windows Server 2003 some settings are not
configured to accommodate what is needed in a Visual DataFlex environment. Also,
some components necessary for Visual DataFlex to fully run are not installed by
default. So, before installing Visual DataFlex, you should review and
configure your server.
In order to install and successfully run,
Visual DataFlex needs the following to be appropriately set:
1. Internet Information Services
2. ASP Support
3. 32-bit compatibility
1. Internet Information
Services
During installation Visual DataFlex will check whether
Internet Information Services (IIS) is installed. If IIS is not present on the
server, Visual DataFlex web server components will NOT be installed. For
this reason, before you install Visual DataFlex, you will need to make sure IIS
is installed on your server. You can do that by checking the list of Windows
features installed on your server; Internet Information Services needs to
be selected.
Depending on the Windows platform you are running, you will
need to make further adjustments since the latest versions of Windows (Windows
Server 2008, for example) include a higher version of Internet Information
Services instead of IIS 6, and the management API has been changed dramatically
from prior IIS versions.
As various Visual DataFlex components (from the
installation program to the Studio and Web Application Administrator) depend on
the prior IIS management API to function correctly, you must enable backward
compatibility for IIS 6 management API on your server. In order to do that,
select IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility under Web
Management Tools | IIS 6 Management Compatibility on your server.
On
Windows Server 2008, for example, follow the steps below to install IIS and
enable IIS compatibility:
• Open Server Manager
• Select Roles
• On the right-hand pane, click on Add Roles – the Add Roles Wizard will start at the Before You Begin page
• Click Next
• Select Web Server (IIS) on the Select Server Roles page
• On the Add features required for Web Server (IIS) dialog box, click on Add Required Features
• Click Next
• Again, click Next
• On the Select Role Services page, select Management Tools | IIS 6 Management Compatibility | IIS Metabase Compatibility
• Click Next
• Click Install
• On the Results page, click Close
2. ASP
Support
Visual DataFlex Web Application Server needs ASP to
successfully run. On the latest versions of Windows, ASP is not enabled by
default. You must turn on ASP to support the Visual DataFlex Web Application
Server.
This can be done under Internet Information Services | World
Wide Web Services |
Application Development Features. Turning on ASP will
also automatically turn on ISAPI Extensions.
On Windows Server 2008, for
example, you may enable ASP by following the steps below:
• Open Server Manager
• Expand Roles
• Select Web Server (IIS)
• Scroll down the right-hand pane until you see Role Services
• Click on Add Role Services
• Select Application Development | ASP
• On the Add role services required for ASP dialog box, click on Add Required Role Services – this will select ISAPI Extensions
• Click Next
• Click Install
• On the Results page, click Close
3. 32-bit
Compatibility
All current Data Access Worldwide products are 32-bit
software and depend on the 32-bit compatibility mode of Windows x64 platforms to
run.
The setting that turns on that compatibility mode is Enable
32-bit Applications in the Default Application pool on x64 versions of
Windows. That setting is not turned on by default, so you will need to change it
in order to successfully install and run any of Data Access products.
On
Windows Server 2008 x64, for example, these are the steps you will need to take
to turn on the 32-bit compatibility:
• Open Server Manager
• Expand Roles| Web Server (IIS) | Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager*
• On the right-hand pane, expand the Connections tree
• Click on Application Pools
• On the panel to the right, select DefaultAppPool
• From the Actions panel, select Set Application Pool Defaults
• In the General group, highlight Enabled 32-bit Applications
• From the combo, select True
• Click OK
* If Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager is not displayed in the tree, you may have to close and reopen Server Manager
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