Installation

The AL-Desk Web Portal Server is a Windows EXE that can run as a normal EXE or an NT Service that must be run on a machine that can connect to the AL-Desk Database. The AL-Desk Web Portal Server is a full Internet Server that by default runs on port 80. This port can be changed to any port you want to use by using the Port Edit on the AL-Desk Web Portal Server.

The AL-Desk Web Portal Server uses the AL-Desk Sybase Database. It can run on the same machine as your AL-Desk Server but also can run on a different machine as long as it can connect to the Sybase Database. To enable the AL-Desk Web Portal Server to run on a different machine, you would need to install the Sybase database client libraries.

The server will install

1. We recommend that you install he EXE into the same directory as the AL-Desk Server. The Server connects to the Sybase SQLAnywhere Database so it needs to be able to find your aldesk database (aldesk.db)

2. The EXE can be installed and run as an NT service or an normal windows EXE. Run the EXE as a normal EXE first

The Server is really 3 servers in one:

a. XML Http server default port is 80.

b. soap Server. Default port is 8080

c. SSL server for credit card server support. Default port is 443.

If you have any other servers running on these ports you will need to stop them or change the port. To disable any of the above servers just set the port to 0.

There also is an option to specificy a demo or production database. We suggest you use the demo database to start with. Use the buttons on the server to browse for the ALDesk.db file.

3. Start the server by clicking the start button.

That's all!

To Test it , after you start it you can test from a browser and run

http:://yourserverIP/als_get_locations.cgi

and you will get some XML back in the browser.