Configuring a deployment server – PB Docs 2021

To configure a deployment server:

1. Set up a Web server according to the documents provided by
   the vendor.

   Any type of Web server (such as IIS, Apache, Nginx etc.) is
   supported. You can set up FTP on the server, so that you can
   remotely deploy the app to the server. For how to configure FTP on
   a server running against IIS, refer to Configure
   an FTP server. For how to configure SSL on a server running
   against IIS, refer to Configure
   an SSL-based FTP server.

2. Select Tools>Web Server Profile from the menu bar to
   open the Web Server Profile
   window.

   

3. In the Web Server Profile
   window, click Add to configure a
   local or remote Web server where the application will be
   deployed.

   • To configure a local Web server, select the Local Server button and specify the Web
     root of the Web server (for example
     %systemdrive%inetpubwwwroot for IIS) or a subdirectory under
     the Web root. Click Test File
     Path to make sure the specified path is valid for
     deployment.

     Note

     If you intend to deploy to a local Web server, make
     sure you run PowerBuilder as administrator or have the read
     and write permissions to the specified directory (read and
     write permissions are required when transferring files to
     the Web server).

   • To configure a remote Web server, select the Remote Server button. You will need to
     specify the profile name and the following FTP settings: host
     name, port number, user name, password, and encryption
     settings. Click Test FTP
     Connection to make sure the specified settings are
     correct for deployment. The FTP user must have the read and
     write permissions in order to transfer files to the FTP server
     successfully.

     

   The server configuration will be used by all PowerClient
   projects; therefore if you have changed the server settings, you
   will need to upload the app launcher if no launcher has been
   uploaded to that server or directory.

   Note

   If you intend to deploy to the Web server through a proxy
   server, make sure the proxy server and the FTP server have the
   same encoding, otherwise, the multi-byte characters in the
   file/folder name will become unrecognizable after deployed to
   the server.

   Note

   As PowerBuilder is designed to be case-insensitive,
   therefore, in a case-sensitive system like Linux, some app files
   (such as images) may not be found or loaded. To avoid any issue
   caused by the case of file name, make sure to configure the
   Linux server to ignore case-sensitive.