Next Step

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Ok, the final step of the Wizard asks you to click Finish to run the configuration process. Let 'er rip.

Important note for PWS on Windows 98
If you installed for Personal Web Server on a Windows 98 or 95 machine be sure to reboot your machine, since the registry settings made during install will not take until PWS is completely restarted. Rebooting is the only 'official' way to restart PWS, although you can also kill the process and then restart it.

Starting up the server

After the setup program is done it should pop up your new Web Connection server automatically as a standalone application running out of Visual FoxPro. It tries to run VFP in the current directory and simply runs the sample server immediately.

If you do this manually when you start up next time follow one of these steps:

• Use the WC Desktop Shortcut
  Web Connection creates a shortcut on your desktop to start Web Connection. I highly suggest you use the shortcut or if one wasn't created (if you don't have the Windows scripting host installed) that you create one manually as it sets the appropriate paths to find the support libraries. Create a shortcut to VFP and have it start out in the Web Connection startup directory.

  Note
  If you have VFP configured to start up in a specific directory in your VFP Tools|Options settings the shortcut will not do the trick. In that case follow the manual instructions for startup. You can verify your startup path by typing CD into the command window - it should display the Web Connection Install path.
  

• Manual Startup
  If the shortcut didn't make it or you're the kind of person that likes to type paths you can also do the manual steps:
  
  1. Start Visual FoxPro
     
  2. CD <WebConnectionInstallPath>
     
  3. DO .\classes\wconnect (Shareware version: DO WCONNECT)
     
  4. DO PATH WITH ".\classes"
     
  5. DO wcDemoMain
     
  
  

Once you do this the server form pops up:

Click on the Status button to see the status information of the server that should display some of the information that you specified during the Wizard operation:

You can make additional configuration changes on this status form later on as well as retrieve information about individual requests.

Accessing the Web Connection Demos

The next step is to fire up your Web Browser and access the demo page. If you chose the default install options you should now be able to go to:

http://localhost/wconnect/default.htm

and access the Web Connection demo page. If this doesn't work please check the Troubleshooting section.

Scroll down to the first request Hello World with Web Connection.

If everything is working OK you should get a response page almost immediately that says Hello World from Visual FoxPro! followed by additional information about some of the server variables exposed by the server.

If this didn't work please see the setup troubleshooting topic.

Otherwise you're in business! Go ahead and browse around the demo page and check out some of the links. Note that most requests have a Show Code link on the bottom of the page that lets you quickly review the Visual FoxPro code that drives the request.

Back at the Web Connection Server

If you flip back to the Visual FoxPro instance that we started up at the beginning of this topic you'll find that there is now some request information in it like this:

00:07:33   wwDemo~ShowImage  - 0.022
00:18:26   wwdemo~TestPage~&Name=Rick&Company=West+Wind  - 0.040

Each request that hits the server shows in the main window along with the time that it took to run. At the same time the request gets logged into a log file where you can review and summarize the incoming requests. You can access this log file from the admin page at http://localhost/wconnect/admin.asp and the Show Web Connection Request Log request.

The admin page allows a number of administrative tasks from server monitoring to setting configuration options remotely over the Web to changing operational modes of the server. It's a good idea to shortcut this page in your Favorites list.