Sun Microsystems iPlanet Web Server, Installation Manual

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Installing on Unix Platforms
Chapter 2 Installing iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition on Unix 29
5.
Choose Express and press Enter.
6.
Type a server root directory or accept the default (
/usr/netscape/server4
).
This directory is where the server files and directory structure will be installed.
root
must have write access to this directory.
7.
Choose all components.
Press Enter.
8.
Enter the Unix user and group names to use when running the default instance
of iPlanet Web Server.
For Express installation, this user must be
root
. The group must be the group
to which
root
belongs.
9.
Enter the Unix user name to use when running the Administration Server.
In most cases, this user is
root
.
10.
Enter the Administration Server user name and password to use for
authentication. You are asked to enter your password twice.
If you are using a Netscape Directory Server, you must make sure that the
Administration Server user exists in the Directory Server, and that it has access
permissions to the Directory Server to perform user and group management
tasks.
11.
After the installation program extracts and installs the iPlanet Web Server
components, press Enter.
12.
Go to the
https-adminserv
directory under your server root directory (for
example
/usr/netscape/server4
) and start Administration Server by typing
./start
. You can also type
./startconsole
in the server root directory.
startconsole
starts the Administration Server and launches a browser to the
Administration Server administration pages. Later, if you have a Netscape
Console installed and have registered the server with it, startconsole starts the
Netscape Console. For more information, see “Accessing iPlanet Web Server
from the Netscape Console,” on page 20.
13.
To configure your iPlanet Web Server, use the URL:
http://
server_name:administration_port
For example:
http://iplanet:8888
Enter your administration user name and password.