1. NiceLabel Help Center
  2. Control Center On-Premises Installation and Activation
  3. Installing Web Printing

Installation steps for the Web Printing site

The Web Printing site connects to your Control Center database using the SQL user authentication. Before you begin with the installation, make sure that you know the user name and password for the SQL user with sufficient privileges for your Control Center database. You need this information during your installation process.

  1. Log in to your computer as a user with local administrative permissions. This can be a local Administrator user account.

  2. To ensure a complete installation, close all open applications before you start.

  3. Download the software package. Web Printing application installation checks the installation package content.

    Note

    If the application menu does not start automatically, double-click NiceLabelWeb Printing10.exe.

    Before the actual installation starts, the wizard verifies if the following prerequisite components are installed on the server:

    • Microsoft IIS

    • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

    If the .NET component is not present on your system, the installer sets up the component automatically before the wizard continues.

  4. Select Install NiceLabel LMS.

  5. Select NiceLabel Web Printing.

  6. Select installation language from the drop-down list and click OK.

  7. Follow the setup wizard prompts.

  8. Define the IIS settings for your Web Printing site and define how your users access your Web Printing page:

    • You can install your Web Printing as a virtual directory below the default website. Configure the virtual folder name.

      For example, the users access the site at http://<yourservername>/PowerFormsWeb.

    • You can install your Web Printing as a new website. Be careful when providing the port number. You can only use ports that are not in use by any other service on this computer.

      For example, the site can be accessed as http://<yourservername>:81/PowerFormsWeb if you have defined the port 81.

      Note

      You can install the Web Printing site as a new site (1st level), or as a virtual directory within the selected Web site (2nd level). You cannot install it on the 3rd level.

    • You can also define the host header values, so your site responds with a user-friendly name.

      For example, if you define a friendly name "mypowerformswebserver" and define the host header value for Web Printing site, the site also responds at the address http://mypowerformswebserver.

      Tip

      Lean more about setting up user-friendly names in this KB article: Using host header names to access Web Applications site.

    • Activate HTTPS support if you wish to establish a secure client–server connection. This option automatically sets your port number to 443.

      Note

      Manually add HTTPS site binding and X.509 (SSL) certificate to the selected site in IIS manager. Details are available in the section Adding HTTPS site binding and SSL certificate in IIS.

      Click Next.

  9. Select the Microsoft SQL server, where you already installed your Control Center database.

    Note

    This and the next steps are only applicable if you install the Web Printing on a different computer than yourControl Center .

    Make sure you enter the correct SQL and instance name. If the SQL Server is configured with a default instance, enter only your server name. If the MS SQL Server is configured with instances, enter your server and instance name in the server\instance syntax, for example, SERVERNAME\SQLEXPRESS.

    Warning

    Your Control Center database (NiceAN or any other) MUST already exist on the selected Microsoft SQL server.

  10. Enter your user name and password to access your Control Center database on Microsoft SQL server. Provide the SQL account credentials (not Windows account credentials!). The Web Printing site connects to your database server as a SQL user.

  11. After completing your Web Printing site setup, you can leave the Run Web Printing site check box selected.

    Click Finish.

The Login page for Web Printing site opens in your browser.