heitml Installation

Please remember the normal operation of the World Wide Web: There is client machine, on which the browser is running and there is the Web server on which the Web pages are stored. The Web server must have a permanent connection to the Internet. This is why many people do not have their own Web server but lease space on the Web server of an Internet Service Provider. In this case there is a third machine, the Web design computer, on which you prepare the Web pages for uploading to the Internet Service Provider.

heitml runs on the Web server . It dynamically creates Web pages while they are being downloaded. This makes dynamic content and Web database applications possible. If you have your own Web server then you can directly install heitml. If you want to use an Internet Service Provider then (s)he needs to install heitml for you. You can also ask us for an Internet Service Provider that already supports heitml.

To try out heitml or to develop heitml applications you can install heitml on your Web design computer.

Other Products Required

With this in mind, the following information tells you what other software you must have on your system if you want to develop interactive Web Pages and Applications.

At a minimum, you will need a Web browser (Netscape 3 or 4, MSIE 4 or 5) and an SQL-compatible Database program. On Windows, this can be simply use an MS Access ODBC driver or any other ODBC compatible database system. On UNIX there are various databases supported by heitml.

For normal development with the RADpage Developer version (on Windows) the database is actually all you need. For a production Web site you should also have a Web Server program. See Supported Platforms for details.

Installation

For Windows there is a RADpage Developer version that installs easily. Additionally there are two versions, a fast ISAPI version developed specifically for MS IIS/SQL Server, and a CGI version for all other Web Server - Database combinations. Make sure to download the right version for Windows NT or Windows 95/98.

There are many different UNIX versions, each developed for a specific variant of UNIX and Database combination. All of them operate as a module of the well known Apache Web server. Our Apache page and the README files in the download packages describe the installation process. More information on installation in conjunction with a certain other product is found on the supported platforms page .

Windows files come in the compressed Zip format, which can be de-compressed using any file extraction utility such as unzip, Winzip, or pkzip. Once the download package has been unzipped, read the readme files and then simply click on the setup.exe file to begin the installation. Please note, however, that you must have ODBC-32 installed as well as a Web Server before you install heitml.

Once the setup program finishes you will be directed to an appropriate Readme file to perform a few additional steps that are necessary to get heitml talking to your Web Server and Database.

After that, you should be able to view the Local heitml Page in your Web Browser. This Local Page is the first of a series of Introductory pages that will take you on a step-by-step tour of heitml. If you follow these pages in an orderly and methodical manner, you will discover that we've taken the trouble to "put ourselves in your shoes", so to speak, and show you the things you need to know to learn heitml in the quickest, most effective manner.