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Running Mendix over a small LAN on Windows 7

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A client wishes to run a Mendix application as a Service over a small LAN, where a desktop server with windows 7 is inteded as the server. I'm building a test-setup of the application on my own system by way of trial. For this I've taken the Mendix on Windows guide (https://world.mendix.com/display/howto40/Mendix+on+Windows) as a manual. Everything works fine, up to the point where I need to define MIME types in the IIS manager. The feature to add these simply is not available. A quick search suggests that this is because of certain static content settings that need to be changed in the Server Management console. Which, unfortunately, is not part of windows 7. I guess the first question would be; is it even possible to deploy a working Mendix Service from a Windows 7 environment? And if so, does anyone have any advice/workarounds for setting up the IIS server on Windows 7?

asked 2012-11-23

Christiaan Westgeest

5 answers

Christiaan Westgeest · Answer 1 · 2012-11-23

Right, I've gotten a bit further. Most settings seem (to my inexpert eye) to be done. When I attempt to start the service in Mendix Service Console 3.0, I get the following error:

com.mendix.m2ee.api.AdminException: runtime.start() should not throw anything other than AdminException! at fP.a(SourceFile:58) Caused by: com.mendix.systemwideinterfaces.MendixRuntimeException: ImagePath C:\TestEnvironments[projectname]\Project\web\ui\images\icons is not a directory

I'll freely admit I'm out of my dept. I've checked the icons directory, but I can find nothing wrong with it. I'm guessing the actual cause of the error is something else, but I haven't found any reference to this exact error anywhere.

Ronald Catersels · Answer 2 · 2012-11-23

Try this how to install iis server on windows 7

Regards,

Ronald

Christiaan Westgeest · Answer 3 · 2012-11-23

Thanks for the link. I've got IIS configured and working (up to a point). However, the IIS Manager doesn't show the MIMEtype feature I need .

A reason + solution is suggested in this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6374419/no-mime-types-option-in-iis-7

The solution requires the aforementioned Server Management feature that is not part of Windows 7. Is there a way around this?

On a sidenote, the Mendix-on-Windows manual mentions specific configurations for Windows Server 2003 and 2008 later in the manual (haven't gotten that far yet) so I fear that even if I manage to work around this specific issue, my troubles aren't over yet. Has anyone tried a similar Windows 7 setup before?

Ronald Catersels · Answer 4 · 2012-11-23

Could you not just set the mime type in the registry? See this

Christiaan Westgeest · Answer 5 · 2012-11-23

Could work. My experience with reg is somewhat limited, but it looks reasonably straightforward. Will give it a shot. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll let you know how things pan out!