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Overview
Setup For PWS
Configuration
Session Managment
Creating your Database
Importing a Tab Deliminated File
Creating Admin Users
Browsing the database
Working with Templates
Remote Managment
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Configuration


Now that you have the program and the TOTW datafolder installed in the web servers directory double click the "directory.acgi" program to start it up.

  • Server Info Setup:

    Select Preferences... from the Edit menu.

  • Type Of Server
    You need to tell TOTW what kind of web server you are using. If you are using one of the standard mac webservers supported it will multi-thread all it's functions for improved performance. If you are using PWS or another unsupported web server select Personal Web Sharing, all other features will be the same, but multi-threading will not be enabled. (The WebTen selection is greyed out because I dont know the creator type registered to the app so that I can send apple events to it. If you use WebTen and can send that information to me I'll be able to get it working very quickly)

  • Server Address
    This is the address of your server. If you are lucky enough to have a domain name like in the example, you can enter it here. If you are installing on a regular office machine you will probably just have an IP address. Check with your IT folks for finding out what this should be for your box. If you're setup with DHCP, this means that your IP may change every so often, this is not suitable for a web server as people wont be able to get to it. You should get a static IP from your IT people, or use a dynamic DNS client like mine for a service like www.dyndns.org

  • Link to Application
    TOTW needs to be able to generate links back to itself, so it needs to know where it is in the web server file structure. You can also name the application anything that ends in .acgi, so this is where you tell it how to link back to itself.

    If you have named your copy of the application "mylist.acgi" and placed it into a folder called "somelist" inside of your web server root folder then you would enter "/somelist/mylist.acgi" into this field.

  • Database Name
    This is not important for the functioning of the system and is only used to give the status window a name. This way if you have several databases running on the same server you'll know which one you are looking at. There is also a "database name" tag that you can place in any of the template files that will be replaced by this entry when you use the product.