WEBDEV Concepts

218 Part 7: Deploying a Web site 5 On-lining the dynamic site To allow Internet users access to your site installed with a hosting company, create a link in your home page to launch your WEBDEV site. If the setup was performed by physical media, the address to use was provided at the end of the setup. Replace <localhost> with the address of your site. Example used to start a "OURAPP" site from the PC SOFT site : http://www.windev.com/WD290AWP/ WD290AWP.EXE/ CONNECT/OURAPP To start the site by using its address (prettyeyes. com for example), you must: 1. Create an "Index.html" home page. 2. In the header of this page, use the html commands (META REFRESH) to perform a redirection towards the WEBDEV site, i.e., towards the following address, for example: "http://205.51.231.57/WD290AWP/ WD290AWP.EXE/CONNECT/prettyeyes" Example of META tag that must be included in the <HEAD> section of an HTML page : <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://205.51.231.57/ WD290AWP/WD290AWP.EXE.EXE/CONNECT/ prettyeyes"> Special case: If a home page was defined in your dynamic site , the address for starting this home page is as follows: http://<ServerAddress>/<SiteName >_WEB/