Configure your Web Server

Configure your Web Server

You can configure your web server as per your authentication details using IIS to run DSWeb 3. See Install IIS for more details.

  1. Install DSWeb 3.
  2. Open IIS of your computer.
  3. In the Connections panel, double-click your Computer.
  4. Then double-click Sites.
  5. Then double-click Default Web Site. DSWeb should be available here.
  6. Click on DSWeb. This will display DSWeb Home features on the right.
  7. Here, you may now edit your connection settings by double-clicking on Connection Strings and then double-clicking on CnnStr Window to Edit Connection String opens.
  8. Select SQL Server.
  9. Enter your server and authentication details.
    1. Modify the following highlighted texts:

<add key="DB_Name" value=" DSWEBVERSION3DATABASENAME" />

<add key="SqlServer" value=" SQLSERVERNAME " />

<add key="SqlDatabase" value=" DSWEBVERSION3DATABASENAME " />

<add name="CnnStr" connectionString="Data Source=SQLSERVERNAME;Initial Catalog=DSWEBVERSION3DATABASENAME;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=SQLUSERNAME; Password=SQLSERVERPASSWORD" />

where;

SQLSERVERNAME = Your SQL Server Name (i.e: sentineldata)

DSWEBVERSION3DATABASENAME = Your DSWEB Version 3 Database Name (i.e: DSWEBV3)

SQLUSERNAME = SQL Server login name that has full access into the DsWeb Database (Default: dswebuser)

SQLSERVERPASSWORD = Password for the login account stated above (Default: dswebuser)

  1. Then press OK.

 Note:

If DSWeb users are to be permitted to upload data directly to the DataSight database, DSWeb's IIS User will require write and modify permissions on the Upload folder.

Alternatively to change the connection settings, use Notepad or any other text editor as an Administrator and open the file C:\inetpub\wwwroot\DSWeb \Web.config

 

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