DranSCADA documentation / Installation / Install on Windows

Install on Windows

You can either download the Windows installer package or a standalone Windows binary file.

Read Upgrading DranSCADA for tips and guidance on updating an existing installation.

Install standalone Windows binary

  1. Click Download the zip file. Important: After you’ve downloaded the zip file and before extracting it, make sure to open the properties for that file (right-click Properties) and select the unblock check box and then click Ok.

  2. Extract this folder to anywhere you want DranSCADA to run from.

  3. Start DranSCADA by executing dranscada-server.exe, located in the bin directory, preferably from the command line. If you want to run DranSCADA as a Windows service, then download NSSM. It is very easy to add DranSCADA as a Windows service using that tool.

To run DranSCADA, open your browser and go to the DranSCADA port (https://localhost is default) and then follow the instructions in Getting Started.

Note: The default DranSCADA port is 443. Make sure there is no other web application using that port.

  1. Go into the conf directory and copy sample.ini to custom.ini. Note: You should edit custom.ini, never defaults.ini.
  2. Edit custom.ini and uncomment the http_port configuration option (; is the comment character in ini files) and change it to something like 8080 or similar. That port should not require extra Windows privileges. Read more about the configuration options.