How to run the AM modeler in IIS/Windows

SteveCooperOrg

Hi, all.

I thought I'd share the very few steps required to get a local copy of the Anchor Modeling tool running. This worked for me on 2013/01/10, using Windows 7, IIS 7.5, and Chrome.

1) Get the source from https://code.google.com/p/anchormodeler/source/checkout

2) Check out the source in the subversion repo. I used http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/ as a client and it worked fine.

3) Open IIS Manager (Start | Run... | 'inetmgr' | OK) and find your default site at SitesDefault Web Site

4) Right-click and 'Add Virtual Directory'

5) Set alias="AM" and Physical path to the checkout directory (should have index.html in the directory)

6) Select the 'AM' virtual directory, now at SitesDefault Web SiteAM

7) Double-click the 'MIME Types' icon

8) Click 'Add...' and add ext='.directive', MIME Type='text/plain'

It then runs if you visit http://localhost/AM.

rogge

Thank you very much; this is very helpful...

I used your information for a VS2013 project.

1) get the subversion code

2) add it to an empty VS web project

3) edit Web.config by adding the static content.

4) debug the program.

NOTE: Chrome doesn't always use the latest index.html so you may wish to add a line to not cache that page.