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Crestron SIMPL™ Windows
Installation & Operations Guide – DOC. 5728C
Send Web Pages
The Send Web Pages command uploads Web pages to X Series and 2 Series control
systems, both of which can provide Web server functionality in e-Control
applications. You can create e-Control Web pages using either the Crestron SDK
(software developer's kit) or VisionTools Pro-e.
With X Series control systems, the Web server is a built-in component of the
CNXENET+ card; with 2 Series control systems, the Web server is built into the
control processor itself. In addition, the 2 Series provides an expansion slot for a
Compact Flash card; thus Web pages can be uploaded to Compact Flash memory as
well.
The 2-Series Web server has a built-in gateway that permits up to 30 simultaneous
connections to the Web server, whereas the CNXENET+ card supports up to 5
simultaneous connections. In fact, because of security restrictions imposed by Java,
only the built-in gateway can be used with the internal Web server, not the CNX
(software) gateway.
To transfer Web pages, select a destination (for the 2 Series only): choose either
Internal Flash or Compact Flash. With the Compact Flash option, if Viewport does
not detect a Compact Flash card you will be prompted to insert a card and retry the
Web page transfer.
Select which files to send: the options are to send an entire HTML project, only files
that have changed, or a single HTML page.
With the Transfer Entire Project option, click OK when reminded to select a
default page, then browse to the HTML project folder. Select a default page, which
will be the first page that is displayed when the control system is accessed by a Web
browser.
The transfer procedure will send the default page along with all other pages and
subdirectories that are in the same folder as the default page. Thus it is important to
remove unneeded files from the HTML project folder, as uploading extraneous files
can exceed the capacity of the Web server. If this occurs, an error message will be
generated.
If any files in the HTML project folder change, the changed files can be transferred
to the control system without need to resend the entire project, by choosing Only
Transfer Files that have Changed. Here again, browse to the project folder and
select the default page. Click Open, and then OK to transfer the changed files.
During transfer, the Viewport compares the files in the project folder with those that
currently exist on the Web server. If the Web server contains files that are not
present in the project, those files will be deleted from the Web server.
Finally, a single HTML file can be sent by selecting Transfer Single File. Browse to
the file and click Open. Then specify the file's relative path (from the root directory)
and click OK. Note that this will delete any files that reside on the Web server.
More on Compact Flash
As just described, you can transfer e-Control Web pages to Compact Flash, rather
than to internal memory on the 2 Series processor.
In addition, if you have a Compact Flash reader/writer drive on your PC, you can
load HTML pages to a Compact Flash card using Windows Explorer or any other
file transfer method. The Web pages must reside in an \HTML directory on the card.
(The HTML directory must also include a configuration file called config.ini, which
identifies the default page.)
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