Web Application Server: Post-Installation for UNIX
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2-Tier Installation
If you plan to install a Prolifics web application server on UNIX, you must create a
user account called
proweb
.
To prepare your UNIX system for installing a web application server:
1.
Add a user called
proweb
(this name assignment is required) to the
/etc/
passwd
file on the machine on which your HTTP server is running. This
creates a user account for the web application server.
2.
Create a web home directory for the web application server user account. For
example:
/home/proweb.
3.
Set the permissions of
proweb
so that both the Prolifics web application
server and the HTTP server can access the files in the web home directory.
Follow these steps:
•
Determine the name of the HTTP server user account (for example,
webmast
).
•
Create a permission
group
consisting of the web user account (
proweb
)
and the HTTP server user account (
webmast
).
•
Give the group permission to access files in the web home directory
(
/home/proweb
). You may need to assign the same permissions to all of
the parent directories as well.
4.
In your web home directory, create an
ini
subdirectory. Make sure that it has
read-write permissions for everyone. Your subdirectory might look like this:
/home/proweb/ini
Web Application Server: Post-Installation for UNIX
For information about installing and setting up Prolifics software, refer to page 30.
After successfully installing Prolifics software and running the setup script, there
are several post-installation steps required to start using Prolifics. This section
discusses or provides references to licensing, building Prolifics executables, setting
up the environment for each of the Prolifics components installed, and post-instal-
lation issues and troubleshooting tips.
If you install the web application server on a separate machine from Prolifics client
software, you must also install the database drivers on that machine.
Post-Installation Overview
As part of post-installation, you need to perform the following general steps. The
details of the steps are provided in the pages that follow.
Preliminary
Steps
