WebSpeed
Installation and
Configuration Guide


Understanding Your Web Server

The Web server is the backbone of any Web application. The WebSpeed Transaction Server is the engine that drives your Web applications, but it relies on the Web server to receive and pass on requests that users send across the Internet through their browsers. The WebSpeed Messenger resides on the machine where your Web server runs, ready to react to incoming requests for data that a WebSpeed application can fill.

You need a working knowledge of Web servers to install and configure WebSpeed successfully. Table 4–1 summarizes what you must know about your Web server before you can start installing and configuring WebSpeed.

Table 4–1: About Your Web Server
Information
Comments
Type of Web Server
You must know whether your Web server is IIS, Netscape, or CGI compatible. Almost all Web servers support CGI.
If you plan to use the ISAPI Messenger, your Web server must be IIS compatible.
If you plan to use the NSAPI Messenger, your Web Server must be Netscape compatible.
Otherwise, use the CGI Messenger.
Host Name
You must know the name by which your network recognizes the Web server machine. Optionally, you can use the Web server’s domain name, that is, the name by which the Internet recognizes it.
Document Root Directory
The Web server must be able to locate the static files that the WebSpeed Workshop or any WebSpeed application requires. To ensure that the Web server can locate the files, you can physically place the files in the Web server’s document root directory or you can configure the Web server so that its document root directory points to the actual location of the files.
Script Directory
You must know in which directory your Web server expects to find the executables and scripts that it uses to process incoming Web requests.
For Web servers on Windows NT, this directory is a virtual directory that you specify when you configure the Web server. The WebSpeed Messenger executable must reside in this directory (except for the NSAPI Messenger, which resides in install-path\bin).
On UNIX, copy the shell script, wspd_cgi.sh, into your Web server’s scripts directory. This shell script invokes the WebSpeed Messenger executable.
Starting and Stopping
You must know how to start and stop your Web server. After installing the Messenger, you must restart the ISAPI or NSAPI Web server. For Netscape Web servers, you must also apply the configuration changes you make. You do not have to restart a CGI Web server.


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