West Wind Web Connection 5.0
Requirements and Recommended downloads
West Wind Web Connection 5.0
Requirements and Recommended downloads
These are the only software requirements that you have to have. Web Connection is developed and tested with IIS Web Servers and that's what works best. However there's also limited support for Apache, but the installation and configuration is not as automated as with IIS. Currently there are also issues with Apache 2.2 or later due to recent changes in the Apache Module architecture. Apache 2.1 and earlier are fully supported. For Apache 2.2 Web Connection has to run in CGI mode.
The following optional components are recommended:
Visual Studio 2008/2005 or Visual Web Developer
If you plan on using the new Web Connection 5.0 Web Control Framework you will want to use a version of IIS to layout and design the Web Control Pages in Visual Studio. Web Connection integrates with Visual Studio and provides FoxPro source code editing and browser previewing through the IDE. VIsual Web Developer is a free tool from Microsoft and it's sufficient for use with Web Connection. VS is not required however - Web Connection has no dependencies on Visual Studio or .NET at runtime and the Web Control Framework is based on pure text documents. Visual Studio is merely used to provide a rich design experience for the Web Controls. Any editor including NotePad or the VIsual FoxPro editor works.
The following components are useful but completely optional when running Web Connection:
Office Web Components for graphing
The Office Web Components are used on some of the graph demos and internally to generate graphics for the logs and a few other places. These components require an Office license (2000 or XP). It's recommended you download the latest version from the link below even if you have Office XP as the ClassIds for these components have changed.
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2002/owc10.aspx?HelpLCID=%HelpLang%1033