DevExpress V46 2

Debugging ISAPI applications with WWSDebug

WWSDebug is a special edition Zero Configuration version of WinShock Web Server

designed to enable developers to quickly run and test Web applications destined for

deployment on ISAPI compatible web servers such as Microsoft IIS, Apache, Omni

HTTPD, or WinShock Web Server.

WinShock Web Server is a commercial grade Web server written in Borland Delphi and

available from Brain Patchwork (http://www.bpdx.com). WWSDebug is a special

edition built in Borland C++Builder.

want to make sure that you unload it. In Microsoft IIS you simply need to select the

properties of the virtual directory and check the unload button.

If that button is not grayed out then your web server has loaded your application, and you

will need to click the button to tell it to release your DLL.

Configuring Delphi to use WWSDebug

To debug your DLL you must select “Run|Parameters…” from the Delphi menu and give

Delphi a host application that will run your DLL, this will be WWSDebug.EXE.

Now the only thing left is to give WWSDebug parameters that will tell it the alias that

your application will be hosted on and a path to find your DLL.

In this case we will use TestISAPIApp as the alias, but it could really be any meaningful

name.

The second parameter is the path to your ISAPI application. If you are using a path with

space characters suche as “C:\My Documents\ISAPI\” make sure you add double quotes