Installation and configuration of Microsoft IIS for E-WMS ASP on Windows Server 2008
This document describes the steps to install and configure
Microsoft IIS
for
WMS ASP on a
Windows 2008 (32 bit or 64 bit) server, per release 411.
For configuring IIS for release 410 or earlier on a Windows
2008 server, please see
this document.
This document consists of following sections:
Installation of IIS
Server prerequisites
Install these components before installing
and configuring IIS.
Install Microsoft IIS
- Go to Windows menu [Start, Settings, Control Panel, Programs and Features]
- Click in the left panel on Turn Windows features on or off, this will start the Server Manager
- Click on Roles on the left:
- Click on Add roles on the right, press next if you see the "Before you begin" screen
- The screen "Select Server Roles" appears, select Web Server (IIS) and press Next
- You may see this message pop up, click Add required features
- Press Next in the screen "Web Server IIS" which starts with "Introduction to Web Server (IIS)".
- In the screen "Select Role Services' check the
options shown below.
(if a pop-up screen appears, acknowledge with Add Required Role Services)
Required options for E-WMS are: all ASP related options, "Static content". E-WMS uses
'Anonymous authentication'.
"IIS 6 scripting tools" can be added for management and trouble shooting.
- After making your choices, press Next and Install. When done, the screen "Installation Results" will show. Press Close.
Configuration of IIS
Go to Windows [Start, Settings, Control panel, Administrative tools, Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager]
(or: Start/RUN, Inetmgr) to start the IIS manager.
WMS ASP requires ASP.NET (.NET Framework 4.5.x) and configured for '
integrated
managed pipeline mode' to run properly. This is managed in IIS by
'application pools'.
You can select an existing application pool
with these configuration options, or create one specific for E-WMS ASP.
Create a new Application Pool
Expand the server name,
Right click on "Application Pools" and select
Add Application Pool.
Assign a specific name to the application pool, for instance E-WMS.
Set .NET to the required version for E-WMS: '.NET Framework v4.0.x'
and leave 'Managed Pipeline Mode' at 'Integrated':
Press OK to save this new Application Pool.
If you just installed .NET Framework 4.5 but this version is not listed
here in available .NET framework versions, then first reboot the server.
Create E-WMS web application
- Expand the server name, expand "Sites", expand "Default web site"
- An application pool is required to configure that
E-WMS ASP is running on .NET Framework 4.5.
You can change the IIS default application pool accordingly, or create a new
specific application pool for E-WMS.
To create the E-WMS web application:
Right-click on "Default web site", choose Add application, enter the preferred name (alias) for E-WMS,
like "wms".
This is the name that will be used to open the WMS web site on the scanners, for
instance 'http://webserver/wms'.
At 'Physical path', browse to the folder where the E-WMS ASP files are located; for example
C:\WMS.
At 'Application pool', select the application pool created earlier for E-WMS, or
leave at 'DefaultAppPool' when the default application pool was changed to run
.NET Framework 4.5:
Press OK.
Now click on your new web site name on the left, in the center panel the web configuration icons will show.
Authentication
Double click the icon
Authentication, verify whether 'Anonymous authentication' is enabled and other types are
disabled.
Press
the back button to return to the main configuration screen.
Regional settings (optional)
Double-click the configuration option ".NET Globalization" :
Choose your preferred regional settings. For example, selecting "En-US" will enable the decimal point (".") as decimal separator, selecting "Dutch NL-NL" will enable the comma as decimal separator on the mobile device. This setting applies for entry of quantities using decimals, or dates, on the mobile devices. This setting has to be re-configured after each E-WMS update (to be specific:
due to overwriting the file Web.config during an update).
Test web site
You can test the web site from within the IIS manager.
Start IIS manager, expand to the E-WMS web site, right click on the site, Manage Application, Browse,
or click on the WMS web site name and select 'Browse *:80 (http)' in the
far right panel.
This will start Internet Explorer for this site. You can also start IE on the server and browse to http://localhost/wms (replace 'wms' with your own web site alias).
When you the screen below, the web site works. You can close Internet
Explorer.
The next test would be to start WMSclient on a scanner or on a PC and connect
to the web site.
To test the proper workings of WMSclient, you have to login on the scanner
and start a scan screen, for instance transfers, or stock info.
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