E-WMS

Installation and configuration of E-Microsoft IIS for E-WMS on Windows Server 2012 (release 410 and earlier)

Introduction

This document describes the steps to install and configure Microsoft IIS for E-WMS ASP on a Windows 2012 server, until release 410.

Please refer to this document when configuring for release 411 or higher.

Description

This document contains following sections:

Install Microsoft IIS
Create and configure E-WMS website
1. Application pool
2. WMS website
Troubleshooting

As described in the general installation checklist, it is assumed that:

Exact Globe Next is already installed on the IIS server
The E-WMS ASP files are available in a dedicated E-WMS ASP folder

1. Install Microsoft IIS

In the Windows 2012 Server Manager, Add roles and features.

Or select menu Manage, Add roles and features:
You may first encounter a 'Before you begin' screen, press Next
In the screen 'Select installation type', select 'Role-based or feature-based installation' and press Next:
In the screen 'Select destination server', select the server you want to install IIS on, and press Next:
In the screen 'Select server roles', scroll down in the list and select 'Web Server (IIS)', and press Next

When this next screen appears, make sure the option 'Include management tools' is enabled and press 'Add features':

After this, you return to the screen 'Select server roles', where 'Web Server (IIS)' is now enabled. Press Next.
In the next screen (titled 'Select features'), expand '.NET Framework 3.5 Features' and make sure '.NET Framework 3.5 ...' is enabled, and press Next.
Next, an information screen titled 'Web Server (IIS)' shows; press Next.
In the next screen the features for IIS can be selected:

For E-WMS ASP, following is minimal required:
- Default document
- Static content
- Application development
  - .NET Extensibility 3.5
  - ASP
  - ASP.NET 3.5
- Management tools: it is recommended to install all features
E-WMS does not use 'Windows authentication'.

Press Next when done.
In the next 'confirmation' screen, press Install. You can leave the installation screen open, or close it. The installation will continue in the background.
When the installation is done, the Server Manager Dashboard screen will show.

2. Create E-WMS website

Start the IIS manager to create or configure the E-WMS ASP website. You can start IIS manager in a number of ways;

Press (Windows Key)+R, type INETMGR and press Enter
In Server Manager (Dashboard): select Tools menu, Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager

In the IIS manager, expand the IIS server name.

2.1 Application pool

First, create an application pool for E-WMS, by right-click on Application pools and selecting Add application pool.

Following configuration is required for E-WMS:

.NET Framework version = .NET Framework v.2.05* (=Framework 3.5)
Managed pipeline mode = Classic

In the list of application pools, 'wms' is now added. Select this new application pool (or right-click on 'wms') and choose Advanced settings in the right (action) pane.
Then change the option 'Enable 32-Bit Applications' to True, and press OK.

2.2 WMS website

To create a new website, expand the IIS server name, expand Sites, right-click on Default Web Site, then choose Add application:

In the next screen, decide on the website name, for example 'wms'. This will be the last part of the URL that will be used on the WMS hand terminals (http://webserver/wms).

Application pool: select the application pool created for E-WMS
Physical path: press the browse button and select the E-WMS ASP folder created previously

Now you can test if the site would work. Select Browse *:80 http:

If the website works OK, you will see one of following screens:

Next, you can configure folder rights (only required when using Internet Explorer as WMS client) and setup the database connections for E-WMS ASP.

3. Troubleshooting

If you do not see the screens as in the previous chapter, but an error message instead, you can check in support documents if the error message is known.

Some general hints: