Manual Installation

The manual installation of DS Server is straightforward and is essentially adding a new website application to IIS on a Windows Server. The following steps are required to install the DS Server application on an existing Windows with an enabled IIS. Please refer to the system requirements to learn which components must be installed and enabled on a destination machine.

The following tutorial shows how to install DS Server on a new Windows installation with no other web applications installed and bindings enabled in IIS.

Copying the Files

Download the required ZIP file (DS-0300-XB.zip) from the online store that contains all the required files for your private DS Server installation.

  1. Unzip the ZIP file to any location on your server (for example: C:\DSServer10).

  2. Open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager on your server. Select Add Website... from the right-click context menu of Sites.

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  3. In the opened dialog, choose DocumentServices as your Site name and select the folder of your unzipped DS Server folder as the Physical path.

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  4. Confirm the creation by clicking OK.

  5. Select the Application Pools tree node and find the newly created pool DocumentServices and open the Advanced Settings....

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  6. Set the .NET CLR Version to No Managed Code and confirm with OK.

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Make sure that the your server or port (443 and/or 80) is accessible from outside (firewall) and test the web application by opening the website in a browser:

https://yourdomain.com/DocumentServices

You should see the following website after typing in the default admin credentials (user name: admin, password: admin):

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