Introduction
How do we web enable our C# application? First we need a web server. You can
either use IIS (built-in to Windows 2000/NT/XP Professional), or Apache. Apache
is the most popular and practical and easily configurable web server available
on the internet. It can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org.
Apache runs on most of the operating systems. After installation on the network
drive or local drive, we see a number of subdirectories among which we see cgi-bin
and htdocs. The cgi-bin subdirectory is used to contain executable files, while
htdocs is used to contain HTML files. When your installation and setup configuration
is successful (for help see the website), type the address as http://127.0.0.1/
and press enter . We see a default page, placed in the htdocs directory, and
see the apache server running !
Change the htdocs subdirectory and create an html file new.html, to display
a form page as follows
<html>
<form>
<input type=submit value=search>
</form>
</html>
Now save this file! Open up your favourite browser and type http://127.0.0.1/new.html,
and press enter. We see results! A button with a text(caption) search, is on
the page ...... !!!