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For monitoring the '''Event Viewer''' of Windows can be used. Relevant logs are to be found under ''Windows Logs\Application'' with the source being ''CaseTalkPortal''. | For monitoring the '''Event Viewer''' of Windows can be used. Relevant logs are to be found under ''Windows Logs\Application'' with the source being ''CaseTalkPortal''. | ||
== Customization == | |||
The file '''Portal_isapi.ini''' contains a few lines for database configuration and a more generic section. | |||
[Settings] | |||
Homepage=/portal | |||
introduction=/portal/ftp/introduction.html | |||
about=/portal/ftp/about.html | |||
These lines allow customization of the portal glossary home page by injecting a specially crafted html file to be presented inside the ''introduction'' and ''about'' tabs. |
Revision as of 09:54, 18 May 2021
CaseTalk Portal
The entire portal software is controlled with a ISAPI dll, static files and a database configuration. The portal may be downloaded from the website as CaseTalkPortal.zip.
Unpacking
Once the portal software is extracted from the zip file. The folder structure should resembled the above.
portal\ dist\ msodbcdiag17.dll msodbcsql17.dll msodbcsqlr17.dll Portal_Isapi.dll Portal_Isapi.ini web.config
Installing
To install these in IIS, follow the steps below:
- Create a Application Pool called CaseTalkPortal which has No Managed Code and Classic pipeline mode.
- Make sure the CaseTalkPortal pool has the advanced settings set to Enable 32 bit applications.
- Under the Default Website add an Application which is hooked to the CaseTalkPortal Application, and points to the physical folder portal\.
- Once CaseTalk Manager is run successful, copy the CaseTalkManager.ini from the roaming profile folder into Portal_Isapi.ini for proper database connection configuration.
- In the portal_isapi.ini add the line "homepage=\myportal" to the settings-section. This is used to navigate users to the proper startpage when clicking the Home. Please adjust to your appropriate setup.
Caching
For cache optimizations, the Output Caching can be tweaked to result in the following web.config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration> <location path="dist"> <system.webServer> <staticContent> <clientCache cacheControlMode="UseMaxAge" cacheControlMaxAge="00:30:00" /> </staticContent> </system.webServer> </location> <system.webServer> <caching> <profiles> <add extension=".dll" policy="CacheForTimePeriod" kernelCachePolicy="CacheForTimePeriod" duration="00:30:00" varyByQueryString="content,v,name,p,icons,filetypes,keyword" /> </profiles> </caching> </system.webServer> </configuration>
The above can be edited by hand (make sure the file maintains the correct permissions for IIS), or done through various configuration screens using the IIS Manager:
Navigate to the Website Portal Folder and double click the Output Caching icon:
Navigate to the Dist folder and double click the Configuration Editor and add the following to mark the entire folder as static content:
Monitoring
For monitoring the Event Viewer of Windows can be used. Relevant logs are to be found under Windows Logs\Application with the source being CaseTalkPortal.
Customization
The file Portal_isapi.ini contains a few lines for database configuration and a more generic section.
[Settings] Homepage=/portal introduction=/portal/ftp/introduction.html about=/portal/ftp/about.html
These lines allow customization of the portal glossary home page by injecting a specially crafted html file to be presented inside the introduction and about tabs.