You may need to clone a GN4 IIS server when adding new servers to a server farm, or for replacement.

The below assumes the software is installed on the source server in the standard set of folders, e.g. C:\TERA...

Moreover, the prerequisites, IIS and Framework need to be installed manually, and the IIS configured manually, especially if the operating systems of two servers are not the same. See Install downloaded prerequisites, Install and configure IIS.

The steps

1.Install PDFLib and normalizer.

2.Copy the entire TERA folder from the source server to the clone.

3.Locate and copy the upgrade commands file(s) from the source server to the clone.

4.Install all the fonts of the source server on the clone, in the Windows\Fonts folder.

5.Copy all the fonts of the source server from c:\Program Files\Common Files\TeraDP\PDFLib\Resource\Font on the source server to the same folder on the clone.

6.Copy the %APPDATA%\GN4\USERCONFIG.XML from the source server to the clone.

7.Stop the IIS service, and then perform the registering of COM components as explained in Register COM components.

8.Perform GACUTIL on the clone server as explained in Registering DLLs in GAC for version 1.5 or newer.

9.Start IIS service.

See also

Command file for IIS server upgrade with ClickOnce regeneration