The first step in configuring Web Connection is to pick the Web server to run on. This choice is very important as it will determine how to configure the server as well copying the appropriate files.

The server selections are straight forward. Web Connection should work fully with an ISAPI compatible Web Server and using file based operation with CGI based Web servers. It's highly recommended you use ISAPI for much improved performance. All Microsoft servers as well as Apache and Website are automatically configured - all other Web servers require manual configuration as outlined in the Setup Program step.

West Wind Web Connection works best Microsoft Internet Information Server 5 or later as well as Peer Web Server (also called Personal Web Server) on Windows NT Workstation. Other platforms and tools also work well, but the development of this product is focused on Internet Information Server and there may be features that don't fully work on other platforms. It's also highly recommended that you use Windows NT rather than Windows 98 to develop your application, both for stability of the dev environment as well as consistency between development and deployment environments.

If you're using IIS you can also select a Web site to install the Web Connection installation on. By default Web Connection uses the default Web site which should serve most situations. Advanced users or ISP's that have multiple sites can use the Advanced IIS Site Selection link to select a Web Site and domain to configure the site on:

The drop down will list all sites installed on the selected domain name or IP address.