Web Engage! consists of two sets of components: the Web Engage! plug-in, which registers and deregisters both Web and FTP servers on AppleTalk, and the Web Engage! and FTP Engage! Chooser extensions, which locate those servers. Details of how Web Engage! works are in How Web Engage! Works.
Installation is done in two steps:
After installation, Web Engage! is ready to run using its default settings. By default, the Web Engage! plug-in is configured to register your Web server on AppleTalk, but not an FTP server. If there is an FTP server running on the same machine as your Web server, you must configure the plug-in to register that FTP server. See the Configuration chapter for details on how to configure the Web Engage! plug-in. The Web Engage! plug-in will register your Web server on AppleTalk using the Macintosh name (called "Computer name" on Mac OS 8) of the server machine.
Further, if you have Internet Config installed on the client machine and configured to indicate a preferred Web browser (or FTP application), the Web Engage! Chooser extension will automatically use it. Otherwise, the Chooser extension will search for a Web browser (or FTP application) and use the first one it finds.
All defaults are changeable. For details on configuring Web Engage! see the Configuration chapter. If the defaults will suffice for you, you are ready to start using Web Engage!
On the client Macintosh, select the Chooser from your Apple menu, and click on the Web Engage! icon. If the Chooser displays a zone list, you should also select the AppleTalk zone in which you want to look for Web servers. After clicking the Web Engage! icon and selecting the zone, you should see a list of Web servers in the selected zone. Only Web servers registered with Web Engage!, and other compatible systems (see note below about personal Web servers), will appear in the list. Simply select the desired Web server and click the "OK" button, or double-click the desired server. The Web Engage! Chooser extension will launch the configured Web browser if that browser is not already running, and tell the browser to display the home page (or other configured page) of the server. The whole process may take a few seconds.
NOTE: In addition to finding Web servers running the Web Engage! plug-in, the Web Engage! Chooser extension will also list personal Web servers (such as Apple's Personal Web Sharing) running Open Door's Personal LogDoor product. The personal Web server must of course be connected to an AppleTalk network, and Personal LogDoor's "Register with AppleTalk" option must be selected for its Web server to be found by the Chooser extension.
Using FTP Engage! is almost identical to using Web Engage! except that by default the Web Engage! plug-in will not register an FTP server. If there is an FTP server running on the same machine as your Web server, you must configure the plug-in to register that FTP server. See the Configuration chapter for details on how to configure the Web Engage! plug-in. On the client Macintosh, select the Chooser from your Apple menu, and click on the FTP Engage! icon. If the Chooser displays a zone list, you should also select the AppleTalk zone in which you want to look for FTP servers. After clicking the FTP Engage! icon and selecting the zone, you should see a list of FTP servers in the selected zone. Only FTP servers registered with Web Engage! will appear in the list. Simply select the desired FTP server and click the "OK" button, or double-click the desired server. The FTP Engage! Chooser extension will launch the configured FTP application if that application is not already running, and tell the application to display the root directory (or other configured directory) of the server. The whole process may take a few seconds.