Topic 4: The computer system used
for the examples in this tutorial
You do not have to set up a computer
system in order to follow along online with this tutorial. All the Host On-Demand
screens that would be generated by the examples in this tutorial are shown as
part of the tutorial itself.
However, you may wish to know how the
computer system used in creating the examples used in this tutorial was configured:
- Operating system: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
- Web server: Any compatible web server, such as IBM HTTP Server 1.3.19
- Host On-Demand version: Version 8.0
- Install directory: c:\Program Files\IBM\HostOnDemand
- Publish directory: c:\Program Files\IBM\HostOnDemand\HOD
- Public name for publish directory: hod
- Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0.
The system was set up as follows:
- Install Windows 2000 and Service Pack 4 or greater.
- Update Internet Explorer to version 6.0 if necessary.
The Host On-Demand server was set up
as follows:
- Install the web server and activate it.
- Install Host On-Demand 8.0. For Win32 platforms this includes the Deployment
Wizard.
- Verify that the Host On-Demand Service Manager is running.
The same system was used for all three
of the program functions used in this tutorial:
- Running the Host On-Demand server.
- Running the Deployment Wizard.
- Running the browser as a Host On-Demand client.
To run the browser as a Host On-Demand
client on the Host On-Demand server itself, start the Internet Explorer and
enter a URL according to the following pattern:
http://localhost/hod/myfile.html
where
-
localhost is the TCP/IP hostname or TCP/IP address of the
Host On-Demand server.
-
myfile.html is the name of a main HTML output file created by the Deployment
Wizard.
In this tutorial, the main HTML output
file is standardsupplies.html, so the URL would be:
http://localhost/hod/standardsupplies.html
