Web Server Setup

The Jade web applications framework currently supports the following web servers.

IIS on Windows
Apache on Windows

This section endeavors to explain how to set up IIS 7.0.

If you want to receive error messages from your Jade web service, make sure that your web server does not modify HTTP responses or returned errors.

The following example web server setup assumes the following.

IIS 7 is set up on your machine

Clicking on Internet Information Services under Services and Applications at the left shows you the display in the panes at the right. This will bring up the following window.

For the web server to work with Jade web applications, the following steps are required to be set up in IIS.

Create an application pool
Create a virtual directory
Set up the Handler Mappings
Set up ISAPI restrictions

For more details, see the following subsections.