Configuration Professional

After the installation is complete, you need to configure the three components of the development kit: HTTP server, gateway and WAA server. For this you must edit various configuration files using a standard ASCII editor.

The best way to familiarize oneself with the Web server and the WAA server is to configure the Web server and the WAA gateway to be able to access the sample collection that comes with the WAA installation package.

For this, the WAA gateway and its configuration file must be deployed on the Web server. Furthermore, the HTML index page which serves as starting point to the web applications of the sample collection must be deployed to the document root directory of the web server. Depending on the type of WAA gateway, this index page can be indexEXE.htm, indexISA.htm, or indexDLL.htm.

The index pages differ only in the request paths of the URLs used to invoke the WAA applications. If the WAA gateway should be accessible via a different request path, then the corresponding index HTML page must be adapted accordingly.

The WAA samples depend on the ability to write files to the web server's root directory. It is therefore necessary to ensure the appropriate credentials for the application.

The sample application Klondike Computer Shop depends on the existence of the folder temp in the document root directory. It is recommended to assure the existence of this folder.

In this section you can find the basic steps on how to configure different types of Web servers to work with the appropriate WAA gateway. This is outlined for the Apache Web server, the IIS up to version 6 and the IIS version 7.0 . A generic description of other Web servers can be found here .