United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia Deploying a DevInfo 6 Database on the Web Presented by Marc Rabbat and Ray Goh
United NationsEconomic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Deploying a DevInfo 6 Database on the Web
Presented by Marc Rabbat and Ray Goh
Planning your DevInfo implementation
Regional or country wide scope Access and performance
Hosting arrangements (ISPs, regional aggregator)
Bandwidth and number of anticipated users Collaboration between parties
How to transfer/upload data Integrity of data Cleanliness of the data Timeliness of the data
Capacity and future growth
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Web users are very picky and easily turned off
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Requirements
Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server running IIS 5.0/6.0
Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 to host the Database
Buying/Registering a Domain name.
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Installation Procedures
1. Create a blank SQL Database2. Create an SQL login user3. Grant this user write access rights to the
Database4. Convert your Access DB to MS SQL DB using the
DX Access remote.exe tool and upload it to the SQL blank Database created earlier
1. Install IIS and ASP.net on your Windows webserver
2. Install DevInfo6 Web3. Assign full rights to ASP.net user on the DevInfo
Web directory4. Amend the file “web.config” to reflect the new
Database
Installing DevInfo 6 Web
Go to http://www.devinfo.org Download DevInfo web setup Extract the file Run the setup.exe
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