INFO: Personal Web Server for Macintosh 4.0 Read Me (MSPWS 4.0)

ID: Q181768

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Personal Web Server version 4.0 for Macintosh

SUMMARY

This article contains a copy of the information in the Read Me (MSPWS 4.0) file included with Personal Web Server 4.0 for Macintosh.

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Microsoft(r) Personal Web Server for Macintosh(r) 4.0

Welcome

Microsoft Personal Web Server is a full-featured Web server designed to run in the background on your desktop Macintosh. Best of all, it's easy to use! Everything you need to monitor your Web site and personalize your home page is available from the Microsoft Personal Web Manager. In addition, as owner of the Web server, you can use the site administration tools available when you view your home page from Internet Explorer. These tools let you do things such as read messages, and browse and retrieve files from your disk. If you don't know HTML, don't worry. Microsoft Personal Web Server will automatically convert SimpleText documents.

What's New

Improved Web Site: The new documents in the "My Personal Web Site" folder provide a more attractive Web site and add extra links, including a link to a shared documents folder.
Easier to Use: The user interface has had a major overhaul to make it more powerful and easier to use.
More Powerful Active Server Pages (ASP): Looping constructs have been added to ASP to give it a broader range of capabilities. You can also now include entire scripts within a single set of delimiters. Complete documentation of ASP is included in the Personal Web Server Help.

Requirements

System Requirements:

68030 processor or better
System 7.1 and above
1400K of available RAM
7.1 MB of hard disk space to install
4.6 MB of hard disk space to run, including the contents of the My Personal Web Site folder as initially installed

Access to the Internet You must have access to the Internet through an Internet service provider or the network to which your computer is connected. To take full advantage of Personal Web Server, you must also have a static IP address or domain name.

Internet Software

MacTCP (control panel) or Open Transport 1.08 or greater (extension) with TCP/IP (control panel)
If you are a dial-up user, Config PPP or similar PPP connection software (control panel) with PPP (extension)

Help

For help with Microsoft Personal Web Server for Macintosh, open the Personal Web Manager control panel and choose Personal Web Server Help from the Help menu.

Installation Note: The My Personal Web Site Folder

The Personal Web Server Installer places documents in the My Personal Web Site folder that make it easy to get your first Web site up and running. This folder is normally installed in the top-level directory of your startup disk. If there is already a folder named "My Personal Web Site" in that location, you may want to remove or rename it before running the installer. Otherwise, the installer will not automatically update it, but will instead create a Personal Web Site Files 4.0 folder in the Personal Web Server folder inside the Microsoft Internet Applications folder.

Technical Support

Microsoft offers technical support and services ranging from self-help tools to direct assistance with a Microsoft technical engineer. For more information on options in your area, read the file Support.txt in the Help folder (located in the Personal Web Server folder inside the Microsoft Internet Applications folder).

Reporting Problems/Suggestions

To report problems, send mail to PWSMBugs@microsoft.com. Please include:

The version of Personal Web Server you are using
What version you upgraded from
System configuration information
Version of operating system
Type of Macintosh
Type of connection to the Internet
Steps that lead to the problem. For example:
1. Open the Microsoft Personal Web Manager.
2. Click Links.
3. Add links to your home page.
4. View your home page and no links appear.
Any other information that will help us reproduce the problem successfully.

Accessing Your Web Site

Your Web site can be accessed with any browser. However, when you, and visitors to your Web site, use Internet Explorer, your Web pages will look their best. Internet Explorer lets you take advantage of some of the latest HTML features such as style sheets and frames. For more information on HTML, visit

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author

or to download a free copy of Internet Explorer for the Macintosh, visit

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com

Known Limitations

Due to changes in Active Server Pages, many of the files in the 1.0 version of My Personal Web Site will not work properly with Personal Web Server 4.0.

Slash ("/") not permitted in hard disk, file, or folder names: The slash character is used in URLs to separate folders in a path. If this character is included within a published disk, file, or folder name, Personal Web Server will misinterpret the name and will be unable to serve up the item or any files or folders it contains.

Under MacTCP, dial-up PPP connections may not be initiated: With some PPP programs under MacTCP, Personal Web Server may fail to initiate a dial-up connection. If you experience this problem, you must manually establish the dial-up PPP connection before turning Web publishing on. Once the connection is established, Personal Web Server should function properly

JIS encoding in HTML documents: HTML documents encoded with the JIS character set may not display properly when served up by Personal Web Server because Personal Web Server removes all occurrences of "<%" when processing HTML for Active Server Pages tags. To prevent Personal Web Server from processing JIS encoded HTML documents, use the ".jis" file extension instead of ".html".

FTP Plug-in may be slow on 68K computers: On 68K computers, the FTP Plug- in may be slow to respond when the client does not have permission to access the requested item. When this happens the 68K computer running Personal Web Server may not respond to user input for up to 15 seconds

Personal Web Server supports fewer connections on a 68K Macintosh: Because of memory limitations, Personal Web Server supports fewer connections on 68K computers.

When using the W*API Adapter Plug-in and certain W*API plug-ins on 68K Macintosh computers, stopping the server may cause a crash. The W*API version of CountWWWebula is known to exhibit this problem. A MOS plug-in version of CountWWWeblua is available and will not cause this crash.

Access Control for Files on Remote Volumes

You can use Microsoft Personal Web Server to publish files on remote volumes. However, Personal Web Server does not use the file sharing privileges that apply to the remote volume.

To restrict access to files on a remote volume:

Turn on "Restrict access to Web site" in the the Advanced panel of the

Microsoft Personal Web Manager.

Set the file sharing privileges for a local folder on your site.

Mount the remote volume and select a file or folder on that volume that

you want to publish.

Make sure that the file sharing privileges for the selected file or

folder have the "See Files" option checked for "Everyone."

Create an alias to the file or folder and copy the alias into the local

folder whose file sharing privileges you set previously. This will restrict access to the remote file for folder to users who have permission to access to the local folder that contains the alias.

NOTE: If you do not want to restrict access to the items on the remote volume, turn "Restrict access to Web site" off or make sure that "See Files" option is checked for "Everyone."

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Keywords          : kbreadme mspwsmac 
Version           : MACINTOSH:4.0
Platform          : MACINTOSH 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: July 23, 1999