Configure the Internet Information Server

Internet Information Services (IIS) is a powerful Web server that provides a highly reliable, manageable, and scalable Web application infrastructure. IIS helps to increase Web site and application availability while lowering system administration costs. CSTA-Financials relies on the use of web-services to handle the data requests of the Client Application, the Pocket PC and the Point of Sale. Those Web-Services need to be installed in the IIS. Therefore, the computer where the application is going to be installed needs to have the IIS properly installed and running.

1- Check that the computer has the IIS installed: Go to Start, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs. Once the form opens click on the “Add/Remove Windows components” button

2- If the “Internet Information Services (IIS)" option is not checked, select it and press next. The system might require that you insert the windows disk to complete the installation.

3- Restart the computer

4- To Start the IIS Management Console Go to Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools and Click on the IIS icon:

5- Once the IIS opens, expand the Web Sites and Default Web Site folder

6- Right Click on the “Default Web-Site” Icon and go to properties

7-Click on the “Home Directory” Tab and hit the “Configuration" Button

8-Check that the .Net Framework extensions are present (asmx, vsdisco, config, etc)

9- If the extensions are missing you might need to install the .Net Framework 1.1

10- If the .Net Framework 1.1 has already been installed, but the extensions are missing the .Net Framework needs to be repaired by clicking on Start, Run and entering the following instructions:

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe –i

If after copying and running this command the files still do not appear, after selecting Run from the start menu, browse to the "aspnet_regiis.exe" file following the same path as shown in the command above and double click on the file. The same command will appear in the run window. Add the -i option (type " -i" at the end as shown above) and try running the command again.

11- If you are using IIS manager version 6.0 you might need to allow the Web-Services Extensions before installing our product.

Install Web-Services

1- Click on the Setup.exe file inside the Web-Services folder (not the csta_ws_setup file)

2- Accept the terms and hit Next

3- Enter the name of the Virtual Directory that will be created in the IIS and make sure you use Port 80 if you want to access the application externally.

4- When the Installation finishes open the IIS and make sure the new Virtual Directory was created.

5- When you find the directory, click on it to see a list of the files on it. Right click on any of the files with “asmx” extension and click browse

6-If you get a list of services in your browser; the Web-Services are ready to be used. If you get an empty page or an error message, this might be the result of not having the .Net extensions allowed. In addition to this, you might need to check the security settings of your server and/or IIS.