Installation guide

Chapter 1: Introduction

22 FlashCONNECT Administrator’s Guide

Using Virtual Directories

A virtual directory is an alias for another directory, which is an additional name for a

directory that actually exists on the disk.

Virtual directories are used in FlashCONNECT in two ways:

• To maintain a consistent environment between the Windows Web servers and

the UNIX Web servers. This way, regardless of which directory is specified in the

URL or link, or which type of Web server the Web application is running on, the

pages will work.

The Windows Web server, IIS, creates a directory called scripts. This directory is

usually located under the Inetpub directory (\Inetpub\scripts). On IIS,

applications or scripts are run from this scripts directory. On UNIX Web servers,

such as Apache, applications or scripts are run from the cgi-bin directory.

• Windows Web servers, a virtual directory called cgi-bin can be created to

point to the scripts directory.

• UNIX Web servers, a virtual directory called scripts can be created to point

to the cgi-bin directory.

• To use the online examples, the Web server needs access to the information

provided in the WebContent directory provided with FlashCONNECT. There are

two ways to allow the browser access to this information.

• Create a virtual directory called w3library to point to the WebContent

directory.

To maintain a consistent

environment between the

Windows Web servers and the

UNIX Web servers.

Windows Web server, IIS, creates a folder

called scripts. This folder is located in the

Inetpub directory (\Inetpub\scripts).

(Applications or scripts are run from this

directory on IIS.) A virtual folder called cgi-bin

can be created to point to the scripts folder.

UNIX Web servers (such as Apache) applications

or scripts are run from the cgi-bin directory. A

virtual directory called scripts can be created to

point to the cgi-bin directory.

To use the online examples,

the Web server needs access

to the information provided in

the WebContent folder

provided with FlashCONNECT.

Create a virtual directory called w3library to

point to the WebContent directory to allow the

browser access to this information.

On UNIX platforms, these steps are done for you

as part of the standard installation process.