Web Stencil - requirement on server

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I was looking for a very quick answer - what is required on the server for web stencils to work.

I dont want to spend the whole day, installing a bit at a time.

I have windows server with IIS. If I have to install ASPX and 3 other packages, I may as well do PHP.

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Quick answer:

  1. On the web server you can either use RAD Server or WebBroker - and that way you wouldn’t need IIS at all.
  2. If you use an external web server such as Apache, IIS, or NGINX you can use Fast CGI if you are using RAD Studio 13 or you can create a regular web module.
  3. There is nothing to install in IIS apart from creating the WebStencils/Delphi app as an IIS compatible module and configuring it.
  4. It doesn’t use ASPX - it’s pure HTML + CSS used as templates.

I recommend reading the WebStencils manual and/or trying out one of the demos.

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Thanks Ian, I have watched two of the videos, they focus on the salesman side of how wonderful it is with no mention of what to do on the server.

I have downloaded the white paper but not read it.

I already havea website /webapp working using TMSWebcore, I want to link in external single pages. I could do them in PHP and pull them into an iframe. Or I could have a go at web stencils.

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I’m sure Ian will get to that sometime. He knows the fun I had :slight_smile:

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It sounds like WebStencils might not be what you want.

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With respect you do need to at least put in the minimum effort of briefly looking at the documentation - it goes into detail in a way which is fairly easy to consume and understand. I’d be surprised if you didn’t have a handle on it with 30 minutes of time spent looking at it.

Have you used WebBroker before? It’s basically WebBroker. WebStencils consists of a pre-processor which you drop on your web module and then either let it automatically process the template files or write code in the web module to handle various conditions like custom variables or surfacing computed behavior to the WebStencils template processor.

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I have a very big list of “things I need to do right now” and this is near the top. :slight_smile: