Proteus can be installed in several ways, according to the version being considered:

• Proteus Dos and Unix™
• Proteus ISAPI
• Proteus Win32
• Proteus Service

Win32, Service and ISAPI versions are usually installed by using the Proteus Center installer, following the procedure explained in these pages.

Proteus Dos and Unix™

There is nothing special to do for these environments: just copy the interpreter in a directory included in the path being searched for executables.

Proteus ISAPI

Use the installation program (SETUP.EXE) of Proteus Center. Remember that you also need to install Microsoft® Data Access Components (MDAC).

After installing the DLL, you need to configure Microsoft® Internet Information Server™; this procedure is slightly different according to the version being used.

Open Control Panel, then Administrative Tools; double click on "Internet Information Services".

Select "Predefined Web Site", right click and select "Properties". In the following dialogue, click on "Home directory" tab and press "Configure" button.

In the following dialog, press "Add" button. Enter the path to PROTEUS.DLL and type ".PRT" as the extension. We reccommend to limit execution only to scripts and to restrict this right only to the directories needed.

Proteus-ISAPI programs can be invoked exactly as CGI scripts, e.g.:

<form method="POST" action="http://127.0.0.1/Scripts/prodsearch.prt" name="search">
..
</form> 

Proteus Win32

Use the installation program (SETUP.EXE) of Proteus Center. Remember that you also need to install Microsoft® Data Access Components (MDAC). The interpreter and its support DLLs must reside in a directory inside the path being searched for executables; the suggested paths are:

• C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM 
• C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32

Proteus Service

Use the installation program (SETUP.EXE) of Proteus Center. Remember that you also need to install Microsoft® Data Access Components (MDAC).

To manually install the service, run the interpreter with "-install" as the only parameter:

proteus -install

To remove the service, run the interpreter with "-remove" as the only parameter:

proteus -remove

The script to be run by the service must be configured in a registry key; create a text file (with ".REG" extension), according to the following example:

Double click on the file and answer "Yes" to the following confirmation dialog; the registry will be updated accordingly. At this point, the service can be run by using:

net start "Proteus Service"

You can also start the service by using the "Services" icon in the Windows™ Control Panel (Administrative Tools).

If you need to install more than one Proteus service, copy Proteus.exe to ProteusN.exe, where N is an integer number (e.g. 2, 3, 4, etc.), and follow the same procedure:

proteus2 -install
(installation)

proteus2 -remove
(removal)

net start "Proteus Service 2"
(service start)