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Can you create multiple instances of Business Central?
Although you can use the Business Central Setup to install the Business Central Web Server components and create a single web server instance in IIS for client connection, there may be scenarios when you want to set up multiple instances.
How to have multiple default instances on one server?
Nevertheless, I will show you a way to have multiple “default” instances installed on the same server, even if it might look impossible at a first look. First of all, you need to have two (or more) instances installed on your server. In this example I will use the server “FANGIO” and I will install two named instances: INST01 and INST02.
How is an Instance ID related to a device ID?
This constraint applies to the sum of the lengths of all the fields and “\\” field separator between the device ID and instance-specific-ID fields. A device instance ID is persistent across system restarts. The following is an example of an instance ID (“1&08”) concatenated to a device ID for a PCI device:
What does the Instance ID in plug and play mean?
A device instance ID is a system-supplied device identification string that uniquely identifies a device in the system. The Plug and Play (PnP) manager assigns a device instance ID to each device node ( devnode) in a system’s device tree.
How to create a business central web server subsite?
The SubSite inherits the bindings from the container web site. This is the deployment type that is created when you install Business Central Web Server components in the Setup wizard.
How to distinguish between rest and SOAP Web Services?
Just add some entry to your web.xml file to indicate the rest path and the endpoint paths… It sounds like your web service is primarily REST (it’s 2013) but you have to support soap for a limited case.
How to create a new web server instance?
If you specify a name that does not exist, then a new container web site will be created, which contains the new web server instance. Susbtitute 8081 with the port number that you want to bind the instance to. If you do not specify a port number, then port 80 is used.