United Nations Economic 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 2 Web users are very picky and easily turned off

3 Deploying DevInfo (Conceptual)

4 Local Deployment within Organizations

5 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.

Components of DevInfo Deployment  2 components for installation : Database Web 6

7 Installation Procedures 1.Create a blank SQL Database 2.Create an SQL login user 3.Grant this user write access rights to the Database 4.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 Web 3.Assign full rights to ASP.net user on the DevInfo Web directory 4.Amend the file “web.config” to reflect the new Database

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Technical Configuration 9

10 How to create an SQL DB and assign rights

Creating the Database 11

Creating the User 12

Assigning rights 13

Install Devinfo Admin tool 14

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Convert & Upload Database 20

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Selecting the Database to upload 22

Creating the SQL connection 23

Converting and Uploading to the SQL Database 24

Installing IIS and ASP.NET 25

Selecting components to install 26

Installing DevInfo 6 Web  Go to  Download DevInfo web setup  Extract the file  Run the setup.exe 27

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Assigning full rights to ASP.NET User 34

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Customizing the website  Copy and replace the images located in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DI6web\images\adaptation \homepage\view\slideshow  Images size should be 268x323 pixels(widthxheight)  Replace the file “slideshow.swf” located in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DI6web\images\adaptation \homepage\view 36