Troubleshooting Directory Proxy Server Installation Problems

This section describes procedures to help you debug problems installing Directory Proxy Server. It includes the following:

Troubleshooting Directory Proxy Server 5.2 Installation Failures

Installation may fail if the password contains a dollar sign ($) character, such as pa$$word. For example, you might get the following error message:

[4] stderr > Can't read "word" no such variable

When the installer parses the password it interprets the text after the dollar sign, $word, as a variable, and this variable does not exist.

Change the password to not include the dollar sign character.

Troubleshooting Problems Starting Directory Proxy Server 5.2 on Windows

If Directory Proxy Server 5.2 fails to start on Windows, check the following:

1. Check that no keys remain in the registry, such as dps, sunOne, idar, dar and iplanet.

2. Remove the product registry file located in the C:\WINNT\System32 directory.

3. Reboot your machine.

   Try to reinstall Directory Proxy Server

You may also need to manually remove the Localmachine->system->controlset001->services->admin52 entry. This entry may be causing your problem if you receive the following error in the Admin server install log:

Error: Writing Administration Server service keys to the Windows registry... failed.