Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Release Notes

Sun Java System Web Server Release Notes

Sun JavaTM System Web Server 6.1 SP8 (hereafter referred to as Sun Java System Web Server 6.1) contains important security vulnerability fixes. All users of Sun Java System Web Server, especially those with sites that use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS), are strongly encouraged to install this service pack. This release also provides support for the HP-UX and AIX platforms.

These release notes contain important information available at the time of release of Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8. It includes information about features and enhancements, known problems, technical notes, and pointers to additional resources. Review the release notes prior to installing and configuring your server, and then periodically thereafter for the most up-to-date information.

The complete Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 documentation is available at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1308.5.

These release notes contain the following sections:

Features and Enhancements

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 provides the following features and enhancements:

Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.2 Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 includes a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) compliant implementation of the Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer PagesTM (JSPTM) 1.2 technology specifications. A J2EE compliant web container provides the flexibility and reliability needed to design and deploy web applications that comply with Java technology standards. Web applications can be deployed on a per virtual server basis.

For information about these technologies, see the following resources:

For information about developing Servlets and JavaServer Pages, see Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Programmer’s Guide to Web Applications.

J2SE Platform 1.4 JDK Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM) 1.4. The J2SE software is packaged with the Web Server and installed during installation for the Solaris, Linux, and Windows platforms. For the HP-UX and AIX platforms, download the Java Development Kit (JDKTM) from the respective platform vendors' web sites before installing the web server.

The 64-bit Solaris SPARC release of Sun Java System Web Server requires a 64-bit JDK. On all other platforms, a 32-bit JDK is required.

J2SE Platform 1.5 JDK Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.5, and has been certified with the following JDK versions:

J2SE Platform 6.0 JDK Support

Sun Java System Web Server supports Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 6.0, and has been tested and certified with JDK 6 update 1 on the Solaris, Linux, and Windows platforms.

WebDAV Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports the Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. WebDAV enables collaborative web publishing and has the following features:

WebDAV provides integrated support for content metadata, namespace management, and overwrite protection. These technologies combined with the many authoring tools that support WebDAV provide an ideal development platform for collaborative environments.

NSAPI Filters Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 extends the NetscapeTM Server Application Programmer's Interface (NSAPI) to support NSAPI filters.

NSAPI filters enable the custom processing of HTTP request and response streams. This processing enabled a function to intercept and potentially modify the content presented to or generated by another function. For example, a plug-in could install a NSAPI filter to intercept a XML page generated by another plug-in's Server Application Function (SAF) and then transform that XML page into a HTML, XHTML, or WAP page appropriate for the client. Alternatively, a NSAPI filter could decompress data received from a client before presenting it to another plug-in.

For more information about NSAPI filters, see Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 NSAPI Programmer’s Guide.

HTTP Compression Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports content compression. This compression enables you to increase the delivery speed to clients and serve higher content volumes without incurring a corresponding increase in hardware expenses. Content compression reduces content download time, a benefit most apparent to users of dial-up and high-traffic connections.

For more information, see Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Administrator’s Guide.

Search Engine Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports a Java search engine that provides full-text search indexing and retrieval. The search feature enables you to search documents on the server and display results on a web page. Server administrators can create the indexes of documents and customize the search interface to meet user specific needs.

The default URL to access the search functionality is http://server-instance:port number/search

For example:

http://plaza:8080/search

When the user goes to this URL, the Search page, a Java web application, is launched.

For detailed information about basic and advanced search feature, see the Online Help provided with the search engine. To access Online Help, click the Help link on the Search page. For more information, see Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Administrator’s Guide.

Enhanced Security

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 enables you to restrict access using flat file authentication through the Java Security Manager. Enabling the Security Manager feature can improve security by restricting the rights granted to your J2EE web applications. By default, the Security Manager feature is disabled when you install the product. To enable Security Manager, uncomment the following entries in the server.xml file:

<JVMOPTIONS>-Djava.security.manager</JVMOPTIONS>

<JVMOPTIONS>-Djava.security.policy=instance-dir/config/server.policy</JVMOPTIONS>

where instance-dir is the path to the installation directory of this server instance.

For more information about server.xml, see Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Administrator’s Configuration File Reference.

JNDI Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports the Java Naming and Directory InterfaceTM (JNDI) API. JNDI provides seamless connectivity to heterogeneous enterprise naming and directory services.

JDBC Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 includes the Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBCTM) software, and supports a wide range of industry-standard and customized JDBC drivers.

Sun Java Studio Enterprise Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8. Sun Java Studio technology is Sun's powerful and extensible integrated development environment (IDE) for Java technology developers. Sun Java Studio is based on the NetBeansTM software and is integrated with the Sun Java platform.

Sun Java Studio support is available on all platforms supported by Sun Java System Web Server 6.1. The plug-in for the Web Server can be obtained in the following ways:


Note –

Sun Java Studio 8 plug-in for Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 works only with a local web server, that is, the IDE and the web server must be installed on the same machine.


For information about using the web application features in Sun Java Studio 8, see http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jsenterprise/learning/tutorials/index.html. Set the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 instance as default, and follow the steps described in the tutorial.

Also, see the NetBeans tutorial at http://www.netbeans.org/kb/41/j2ee-tut/.

For more information about Sun Java Studio 8, see http://www.sun.com/software/sundev/jde/.

For additional developer resources, see Additional Sun Resources.

To Use Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 for Debugging

Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 can be used for remote debugging if you want to manually attach the IDE to a remote web server started in debug mode.

  1. Restart the server instance in the debug mode by using the Sun Java System Web Server Administration interface (Server Manager->JVM General->Debug Enabled).

  2. Note the JPDA port number.

  3. Start the IDE.

  4. Choose Debug->Start.

  5. Select the dt_socket method.

  6. Type the remote machine name and JPDA port number.

    Any breakpoint created in the IDE on Servlet source code of a deployed application becomes active.

Active Server Pages Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports the Active Server Pages (ASP) specification through Sun Java System Active Server Pages version 4.0.1 (formerly Sun ChiliSoft ASP) and version 4.0.2. Active Server Pages software adds a secure and enterprise-grade ASP engine to the Sun Java System Web Server. Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports Sun Java System Active Server Pages 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 on the following platforms:

A license is not required for Sun Java System Active Server Pages if you are installing it to the Sun Java System Web Server. The Sun Java System Active Server Pages installer is available on the companion CD if you purchase the Sun Java System Web Server Media Kit, or you can download it from http://www.sun.com/software/chilisoft/index.html.

Note the following:

PHP Compatibility

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) can be used with the Sun Java System Web Server using one of the three supported APIs; CGI, NSAPI, and FastCGI. PHP is a page scripting language available from the PHP group. The PHP group provides instructions on its Web site (http://www.php.net) for configuring the PHP software to use any of these APIs:


Note –

Instead of using PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN, use the FastCGI add-on configuration parameter min-procs to control the minimum number of PHP processes.


NSS and NSPR Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 supports NSS. The version of NSS included in this version of Web Server is 3.11.6 (for both 32–bit and 64-bit). NSS is a set of libraries that support cross-platform development of security-enabled server applications. Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 also includes NSPR 4.6.6.

If you are upgrading from a previous version of Java Enterprise System (Java ES) to Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8, install the following NSS patches:

Enhanced Hardware Accelerator Encryption Support

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 provides hardware accelerator support for SunTM Crypto Accelerator 500, 1000, and 4000 boards, which enhance the performance of SSL on web server.

64-bit Support

To complement the existing support to 32-bit Solaris SPARC, Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 also supports 64-bit Solaris SPARC.

The 64-bit release may be of use in certain memory-intensive deployments as it enables administrators to configure a larger file cache and Java heap than the 32-bit release. However, existing plug-ins are not compatible with the 64-bit release. These plug-ins have to be recompiled for the 64-bit release by the plug-in vendor. Java web applications that use native, and non-Java libraries should also be recompiled. Therefore, you might prefer to deploy the 32-bit release of Sun Java System Web Server.

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 also provides 64-bit support for FastCGI, Reverse Proxy, and Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP) plug-ins.

The 64-bit release is compatible with 64-bit Solaris kernels on UltraSPARC® processors. The 64-bit release cannot be used on x86 processors or with 32-bit Solaris kernels. The 32-bit release continues to be compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Solaris kernels.


Note –

The 64-bit and 32-bit releases of Sun Java System Web Server are packaged and distributed separately. You cannot upgrade an existing 32-bit Sun Java System Web Server installation to a 64-bit installation. You can distinguish the 32-bit and 64-bit releases by the version string that is displayed in the installer, at server startup, and in the server errors log as follows:


Release 

Version String 

32–bit 

Sun ONE Web Server 6.1SP8 

64-bit 

Sun ONE Web Server 6.1SP8 (64-Bit) 

Solaris PKCS #11 Support

For Web Server's SSL subsystem (NSS) to use external PKCS#11 tokens, you have to configure NSS with the modutil command to make it aware of the tokens. The Solaris libpkcs11 softtoken is a PKCS#11 compliant token which can be used with NSS. As an additional benefit on UltraSPARC-T1, systems using the Solaris 10 libpkcs11 task will make use of the platform crypto acceleration support.

Run the modutil command without any arguments for usage information. For example, to add the Solaris 10 libpkcs11 task as a PKCS11 token in NSS.

  1. Ensure that SSL support has been initialized for the web server instances.

  2. Run the following command:

    % modutil -dbdir $ALIASDIR -dbprefix $PREFIX -add libpkcs -libfile /usr/lib/libpkcs11.so -mechanisms RSA

    where

    • $ALIASDIR is the path to the alias directory in the install root where the NSS database files are located.

    • $PREFIX is the prefix used by the key3 and cer8 database files in the alias directory and is of the form https-$INSTANCENAME-.

    The -mechanisms flag makes this token the preferred initial provider for the given algorithms.

  3. Run the modutil command without any arguments for a list of all possible mechanisms.

  4. Initialize the libpkcs11 provider's password with pktool.

    % pktool setpin

    For further details on configuring NSS, see the libpkcs11(3LIB), pkcs11_softtoken(5), and pktool(1) man pages. For more information about modutil, see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/modutil.html.

Localized Version Support

If you are using a localized version of Web Server 6.1x, you can take advantage of the existing localization features by installing Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 over the existing server. Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 is available in Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Spanish, German, and Korean.

Supported Platforms

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 can be installed on the Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, and Windows platforms. For more information about installation requirements, see Required Patches in these release notes and Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Installation and Migration Guide. The following table summarizes platform support.


Note –

HP-UX 11i is supported only on PA-RISC platforms.


Table 1 Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Supported Platforms

Vendor 

Architecture 

Operating System 

Minimum Required Memory 

Recommended Memory 

Recommended Disk Space 

IBM 

PowerPC 

AIX 5.1*, 5.2, 5.3 

64 MB 

192 MB 

256 MB 

Hewlett-Packard 

PA-RISC 2.0 

HP-UX 11.11 

64 MB 

192 MB 

256 MB 

Microsoft 

x86 

Windows 2000 SP4 or higher 

Windows XP Professional 

Windows 2000 Advance Server 

Windows 2003 SP1 Enterprise Edition (32 bit) 

64 MB 

192 MB 

256 MB 

Sun 

SPARC** 

Solaris 8, 9, 10 

64 MB 

192 MB 

256 MB 

Sun 

SPARC** (64-bit) 

Solaris 10 

64 MB 

192 MB 

256 MB 

Sun 

SPARC**, x86  

Trusted Solaris 8 (Professional Services Engagement)***  

64 MB 

192 MB 

256 MB 

Sun 

x86 

Solaris 9, 10 

64 MB 

192 MB 

256 MB 

Sun 

x86 

Sun Linux 5.0 (Deprecated)**** 

64 MB 

192 MB 

256 MB 

Linux 

x86 

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 

  • Linux kernel 2.4.9-e.3smp

  • glibc-2.2.4-26

  • ncurses-4-5.0-5

You may also create a symbolic link from libncurses5.so to libcurses4.so, although we recommend that you install ncurses4-5.0-5.i386.rpm.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 update 1 

  • uname -r: 2.4.21-9.ELsmp

Red Hat Advanced Server 4.0 

SuSE Linux Enterprise 9.0 

64 MB 

192 MB 

256 MB 

* AIX 5.1 is deprecated.

** As of iPlanet Web Server 6.0, older SPARC CPUs are not supported. Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 continues to support the UltraSPARC architecture.

*** Sun or Sun Partner Advantage professional services highly recommended.

**** Support for Sun Linux 5.0 is deprecated and will be removed in the next release of the Sun Java System Web Server.

For better performance and support, migrate your Web Server to a supported operating system.


Note –

For a Solaris installation, Sun Java System Web Server (SP5 onwards) supports Global Zone with Sparse Root Zone and Whole Root Zone.


Required Patches

Make sure to update your operating system with the latest applicable patches.


Note –

To upgrade from Java ES 4 to Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8, you should add the security patches along with the Web Server patches.


Solaris Patches

Solaris users must have the Sun recommended patch cluster installed. For more details, see http://sunsolve.sun.com.

Solaris 8 Release (SPARC)

Solaris Release 9 (SPARC and x86)

HP-UX Patches

The following HP-UX patches are required for Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8.

HP-UX 11i

AIX Patches

The following AIX patches are required for Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8.

AIX 5.1

AIX 5.2

If you have deployed Java web applications on the Web Server, set the following environment variables to the values specified below (as per the IBM JDK documentation) before starting the server:

You can directly add the above code line to the Web Server start script.

AIX 5.3

Supported Browsers

The following browsers are supported with Web Server 6.1 Administration Graphical User Interface (GUI):

Mozilla 1.7 or later  

Firefox 1.0.4 or 1.5 or later 

NetscapeNavigatorTM 7.0 or later

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 

Impact of US DST Changes 2007

Daylight Savings Time (DST) will start in U.S.A from the second Sunday of March and end on the first Sunday of November. This will impact the date and time rules of the operating system and JDK/JRE.

To make sure that log files contain the correct time in US time zones, and that Administration Server and Java Web Applications are not impacted by this change, download and use the appropriate operating system patches. You can download the Solaris patches from http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102775-1.

For other platforms, download similar DST compatible patches from operating system vendor's web site.

Web Server 6.1 SP8 packages DST compatible JDK 1.4.2_13 on the Solaris, Windows, and Linux Platforms. Web Server 6.1 SP8, however, does not package JDK on HP-UX and AIX platforms. For these two platforms, download the appropriate DST compatible JDK from the HP or IBM web sites, prior to Web Server 6.1 SP8 installation. JDK versions for the supported platforms are as follows:

Solaris:1.4.2_13 

Windows: 1.4.2_13 

Linux: 1.4.2_13 

HP-UX: 1.4.2_12 

AIX: 1.4.2 SR 7 

Deprecated or Modified Public Interfaces in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1

The following public interfaces in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 may be deprecated or modified in non-compatible ways in a future Web Server release. These interfaces remains unchanged within the Web Server 6.1 product. Scripts that rely on these interfaces may have to be updated to function with future Web Server releases.

Table 2 Deprecated or Modified Public Interfaces

Configuration File or Utility 

Description 

magnus.conf

Modified. Some functionality might be moved to other files. 

server.xml

Modified. Schema and functionality might be modified. 

nsfc.conf

Deprecated. Functionality might be moved to other files. 

dbswitch.conf

Deprecated. This file may be eliminated and functionality might be moved to other files. 

password.conf

Deprecated. This file may be eliminated; functionality might be moved to other files. 

file layout 

Modified. The configuration file structure might be modified. 

start, stop, restart, and rotate scripts 

Modified. The names and/or locations of these utilities might change. 

wdeploy application

Deprecated. This utility may be eliminated and functionality might be integrated with other management utilities. 

Installation, Upgrade, and Migration Notes

This section includes notes about installing, upgrading, and migrating your Sun Java System Web Server. For detailed information about these topics, refer the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Installation and Migration Guide. For known issues in this release of Sun Java System Web Server, see Known Issues.

Installation notes

Note the following cautions:

Upgrade

When you install Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 over an existing installation of Sun Java System Web Server, the installer automatically carries out the upgrade.

If you have Sun ONE Web Server 6.1 SP1 installed, point the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 installer to the location of the 6.1 SP1 installation and then upgrade.

If you have the Sun Java Enterprise System 1 installed on your system and you want to upgrade the Sun ONE Web Server 6.1 that is part of Sun Java Enterprise System 1 to Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8, refer the Sun Java Enterprise System 2004Q2 Installation Guide.

Migration

Direct migration from a version of iPlanet TM Web Server earlier than 4.1 to Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 is not supported. You must first migrate your legacy server to iPlanet Web Server 4.1, and then to Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8.

For detailed migration information, see Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Installation and Migration Guide. This guide contains information about migrating from version 4.1 to 6.1 and from version 6.0 to 6.1.

Product Documentation

Sun Java System Web Server includes a complete set of product documentation at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1308.5.

Sun Java System Web Server manuals are available as online files in PDF and HTML formats. The following table lists the tasks and concepts described in each manual.

Table 3 Sun Java System Web Server Documentation Roadmap

Subject 

Documentation 

Late-breaking information about the software and documentation 

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Release Notes

Getting started with Sun Java System Web Server, including hands-on exercises that introduce server basics and features recommended for first-time users. 

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Getting Started Guide

Performing installation and migration tasks: 

  • Installing Sun Java System Web Server and its various components, supported platforms, and environments

  • Migrating from a previous version of Sun Java System Web Server

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Installation and Migration Guide

The guide can also be accessed from your Web Server installation: server-root/manual/https/ig/

Performing the following administration tasks: 

  • Using the Administration and command-line interfaces

  • Configuring server preferences

  • Using server instances

  • Monitoring and logging server activity

  • Using certificates and public key cryptography to secure the server

  • Configuring access control to secure the server

  • Using Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform) security features

  • Deploying applications

  • Managing virtual servers

  • Defining server workload and sizing the system to meet performance needs

  • Searching the contents and attributes of server documents, and creating a text search interface

  • Configuring the server for content compression

  • Configuring the server for Web publishing and content authoring using WebDAV

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Administrator’s Guide

The guide can also be accessed from your Web Server installation: server-root/manual/https/ag/

Using programming technologies and APIs to do the following: 

  • Extend and modify Sun Java System Web Server

  • Dynamically generate content in response to client requests

  • Modify the content of the server

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Programmer’s Guide

Creating custom Netscape Server Application Programmer’s Interface (NSAPI) plug-ins 

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 NSAPI Programmer’s Guide

Implementing Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology in Sun Java System Web Server 

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Programmer’s Guide to Web Applications

Editing configuration files 

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Administrator’s Configuration File Reference

Tuning Sun Java System Web Server to optimize performance 

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Performance Tuning, Sizing, and Scaling Guide

FastCGI plug-in information 

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 FastCGI Plug-in Release Notes

Reverse Proxy plug-in information 

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Reverse Proxy Plug-in Release Notes

Accessibility Features for People With Disabilities

To obtain accessibility features that have been released since the publishing of this media, consult Section 508 product assessments available from Sun upon request to determine which versions are best suited for deploying accessible solutions. Updated versions of applications can be found at http://sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/get.html. For information on Sun's commitment to accessibility, see http://sun.com/access.

Resolved Issues

This section lists the most important issues fixed in the following releases:

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP8

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8.

Table 4 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8

Problem ID 

Description 

4737204 

The wdeploy delete command follows symbolic links and deletes directories and its contents pointed by the symbolic link.

6152655 

form-based authentication in a web application causes users to be logged out unexpectedly although the session should still be active.  

6235473 

Need the ability to change the permissions of a directory, which is created using WebDAV. 

6319312 

Fastcgistub dumps core when an instance is stopped after sending request for FastCGI Authorizer application.

6343584 

Web server hangs with threads in a deadlock condition waiting for a lock owned by a NSS thread.  

6379347 

If Access Manager is deployed on the web server, all versions of Web Server 6.1 crash on load.  

6497690 

Need an option to have full URL or relative URL/URI in web server search web application. 

6508015 

getParameterNames() does not return non-parameterized names in query string.

6509623 

(Windows XP and Windows 2003): Unable to open the Web Server 6.1 SP7 release notes by clicking the Start->Programs->Sun ONE Web Server->Release Notes link. 

6513358 

Web server Reverse Proxy Plug-in is not handling chunked data. 

6519021 

The obj.conf file of a new virtual server class generated by the Admin Server contain errors.

6519551 

Issue in the JDBC Connection Pool feature. 

6519839 

Vulnerability with Web Server redirect functionality. 

6520528 

response.sendRedirect() error if the redirect URL does not begin with a slash (/).

6526460 

LDAP connection failure errors with WS6.1 SP7. 

6531111 

htaccess AuthGroupFile should support empty files as equivalent to not specifying the directive.

6532218 

Web server 6.1 SP7 crashes in libxerces-c.so on T2000 systems.

6534216 

Update README, version string and license file for Web server 6.1 SP8. 

6540248 

Web server 6.1 SP8 to be integrated with NSS 3.11.6 and NSPR 4.6.6. 

6546233 

RPM specification and pkginfo file to be updated with the SP8 release and version number. 

6566204 

UTF-7 cross site scripting vulnerability. 

6567841 

Form authentication bypass and JSP source code disclosure vulnerability. 

6574379 

Web Server 6.1 browser support should include Internet Explorer 7. 

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP7

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP7.

Table 5 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP7

Problem ID 

Description 

4856895 

On UNIX: The watch dog process crashes on multiple CPUs machine during server shut down.  

6158040 

While migrating from 4.1 to 6.1, the JAVA parameters are missing in the server.xml file.

6206179 

Internal log rotation rotates the files twice if the system time is changed between two scheduled rotations. 

6213097 

While migrating from 4.1 to 6.0, ktsearch.jar does not get migrated correctly on JES3.

6276594 

A PUT request sent with the Transfer-encoding:chunked header along with a request body fails.

6292582 

SNMP MIB's "Fraction of process memory in system memory" which is part of iws.mib, gives the wrong results when queried by the SNMP Manager.

6315783 

In the French locale, Online Help links on the Search page lead to English pages.

6348395 

When IWSSessionManager is used, invalidating a session does not call the sessionDestroyed() of HttpSessionListener.

6350502 

Pragma and cache-control headers cause interoperability problems. 

6358858 

zlib library throws an internal error.

6367672 

The restart script fails when MaxProcs is greater than 1(one).

6376035 

Unable to configure the Web Server to successfully run a JSP file that contains a jstl tag.

6376082 

Need to support JNDI simple names for lookup in web applications for compatibility with the Application Server product. 

6380777 

Cannot add pl file suffix for magnus-internal/cgi through the Administration GUI.

6381747 

If a session attribute implements HttpSessionBindingListener, the session expires after the session time-out period regardless of whether the session object is accessed.

6382704 

Administration server monitors the server statistics even if the Monitor Web Server Statistics option is disabled.

6384456 

When a web application attempts to use an object inappropriately, it crashes the web server. 

6384640 

Concurrent restart requests kill the Web Server processes.  

6388092 

Images stored in the /ns-icons directory are not displayed properly in Internet Explorer.

6388766  

On Windows: treatment of "\", the Japanese backslash mark (Yen) is different when a new CGI shell directory is created or edited. 

6392159 

The restart script fails to restart the Web Server intermittently, causing the Web Server to hang. 

6392644 

Incorrect URL in Web Server 6.0 SP10 and Web Server 6.1 SP5 Readme files.  

6400307 

The cluster control functionality of Admin GUI hangs when a variable is added.  

6418529 

The search page content has a mix of both English and other languages.  

6421617 

Problem having server-parsed HTML and .htaccess with the restricted group option.

6426382 

If the value of net_write SAF is three times more that the fragment size of the HTTP compression, a net_flush call does not flush all the data.

6428199 

Search filter fails if the userid of a member belonging to a user group contains "," (comma). 

6428403 

When a Servlet filter appends additional data to a response body generated by core, the server might crash if the size of the additional data is larger than the original response body. 

6429293 

Security vulnerability in Web Server 6.1 sample applications.  

6433752 

The ssl-check function does not work with NSAPI-based plug-in.

6436535 

Server hangs on stop or restart when a connection is in the connection queue.  

6437635 

Issues with revoked client certificates and CRL files under certain conditions. 

6438408 

SNMP process leaks memory with each connection request. 

6439519 

If the ObjectType fn="force-type" directive is removed from the obj.conf file, the server may crash when a request is made for multiple byte ranges.

6441402 

LDAP server configuration fails with Web Server 6.1 SP5 64–bit version. 

6442651 

If the URL to a web application contains URI parameters, it causes recursive redirection. 

6448255 

On Windows: File handle is not released by the webservd process under certain conditions.

6451182 

Web Server 6.1SP6 experiences high CPU in parseParameters().

6455812 

Thread safety problems in the handling of some magnus.conf directives cause certain configurations to crash on startup.

6458771 

watchdog can crash when ./start is executed before ./stop completes.

6465691 

Display error with HTML page in <jsp:include> with tiles.

6471388 

On Windows: Using hidden shared network drives as document directories results in Not Found error.

6473494 

Signature DigestInfo parsing problems in NSS.

6477953  

On Windows: Web Server (stand-alone) modifies the NSPR/NSS bits thereby breaking the FIPS mode.  

6477981 

FIPS140 mode is broken in Web Server (stand-alone) due to missing .chk files.

6478972  

The JDK shipped with Web Server 6.1SP6 is not compatible with 2007 Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes.  

6480026 

Some keep-alive connections do not get closed after the specified time. 

6482272  

SNMP master agent does not send traps when the Web Server instance's operational status changes. 

6482560  

On HP-UX: Web Server crashes with 1.4.2.09 + and 1.5.0.3+ JVMs. 

6488468 

On HP-UX: Remove the packaged JDK for Web Server. 

6489275 

Web Server 6.1 should be integrated with the latest NSS version for FIPS 140-2 compliancy. 

6494886  

Low-latency/high concurrency mode sometimes does not get switched dynamically. 

6496892  

On AIX: Remove the packaged JDK for Web Server. 

6507264 

When the default log level is set to info, finer log messages are still being printed at server startup.

6508092 

Server startup fails in Web Server 6.1 SP7 on the HP-UX platform when installed through express silent mode. 

6510957 

The pkginfo file in the Solaris and RPM specification files points to the old service pack(SP5).

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP6

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP6.

Table 6 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP6

Problem ID 

Description 

5027774 

WW_umask in the configuration is NULL in Solaris.

6334248 

6397340 

Windows 2003 mapped network drive not readable as a document root directory. 

Additional Information: To use a document root in a shared network resource, a UNC path has to be used, for example, //machine-name/shared-folder-name. A mapped drive letter like X: will not work as document root. You can specify the document root either manually in server.xml or through the Administration GUI by accessing Virtual Server Class->Content Management->Primary Content Directory.

For using a shared directory on UNIX, do the following: 

  1. Install SFU (Windows Services for UNIX) on the Windows machine where Web Server is installed.

  2. Map the Windows users and groups to UNIX users and groups through the SFU user interface shortcut under the Start menu.


    Note –

    While running Web Server, User Name Mapping Service (which is part of SFU) has to run.


When using a shared directory from another Windows machine, ensure that the password of the Administrator account on both the machines is the same, otherwise the service will not be able to access the network resource. 

Whether the shared directory is on UNIX or Windows, the service representing the instance server has to run as a particular user of Administrators group like ./Administrator rather than running it on the default local system account. Go to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services and make the changes in the Properties dialog box.

6384651 

For HP-UX: Web Server sometimes returns the wrong last-modified header and date header. 

6404983 

Searching of Users and Groups through the LDAP server using the Administration GUI fails. 

6316387 

Web Server uses incorrect logic when processing the if-unmodified-since header.

6318003 

Web Server returns the actual content with 412 code for requests that contains if-unmodified-since and range.

6312702 

HttpServletResponse.reset() does not work as expected.

6360180 

Crash in webapps/qa_app/jsp/encodedurlforwarder.

6316881 

Multibyte characters in headers cannot be retrieved by req.getHeader().

Workaround:

By default, request headers are encoded using UTF-8 enc. You can customize request header encoding at the web application level by following these steps:

  1. Set the value of the configuration parameter use-requestenc-for-headers to any value such as yes, true, or on, in the web application's sun-web.xml.

    In the following example, request header encoding is enabled for the web application:

    <sun-web-app>
     <parameter-encoding form-hint-field="j_encoding">
     <property name="use-requestenc-for-headers" value="true" >
     <session-config>
       <session-manager>
     </session-config>
     <jsp-config>
    </sun-web-app>
  2. Set the name of the character encoding in the application (JSP/Servlet) using request.setCharacterEncoding().

6318406 

Redeploying the web application causes ownership changes on files.  

6294743 

Updating JSP search collection creates new tmp files in the converted directory and fills up the disk space.

6197731 

Internal error on accessing Administration Server.  

6316262 

Administration GUI does not reflect the changes made to the access log path. 

6378521 

makefiles need a cleanup in 6.1.

6318200 

Buffer overflows when formatting installer error messages. 

6343584 

Deadlock in keepalive subsystem caused by NSS blocking.

6326965 

Administration password in plain text in a file readable by anyone. 

Workaround: Use either of these two workaround:

  • Delete the file .adminpasswd manually.

  • Change the permissions of the .adminpasswd file to 400.

4991884 

6246214 

Search indexing hangs on large .doc files.

Workaround:

  1. Add the following property within the SEARCH element.

    <SEARCH>
      <PROPERTY name="conversionExtensions" Value="pdf,doc">
      :
      :
    </SEARCH>
  2. Restart the server.

  3. Add .doc files to the collection.

6356179 

The Administration Server of Web Server 6.1 does not change the id attribute in the USERDB tag.

Additional Information: To change the id attribute in the USERDB tag, use either of these two option:

  • Create one virtual server class file. Use this class file as template to create multiple virtual servers. In this case, most of the configuration defined by VS Class will be inherited by all virtual servers.

  • Create multiple virtual server class files within a server instance (https-localhost). Each of these virtual server class files can contain one or more virtual servers.

6333656 

The MIME type file in Web Server binaries must include the StarOffice/OpenOffice MIME types.  

6342394 

Cron log rotation on Windows can create invalid archive logs with a specific instance name. 

6358851 

SNMP Master and Sub Agent startup fails. 

6336309 

Problem with rewriting the special character `&' in server.xml.

6335483 

Create symbol enabled builds for HP-UX (non-stripped). 

6332442 

Web Server crashes on Linux when Init fn="stats-init" is present in magnus.conf.

4718466 

After importing the 6th key to crypto, Web Server 6.0 displays an error: server not avail.

6340799 

During a stress test on S1WS6.1SP5 SSL on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP2, webservd has a memory leak.

6353988 

Cannot set client trust or server trust on some built-in Certificate Authorities (CAs) for Web Server 6.1SP4/SP5. 

6329109 

Web Server 6.1: Lock file conflict for multiple installations running on the same port but with different IP addresses.  

6378545 

While updating a JSP search collection, updating a JSP file fails re-indexing. 

6280778 

PDF files unable to be indexed with Web Server 6.1 search. This error occurs on HP-UX with OS patch PHSS_28871 installed. 

6302377 

Servlet container UTF-8 URI mapping vulnerability. 

6370089 

Integrate NSS 3.11.1 with Web Server 6.1 SP6. 

6285129 

Using % in the jsp:param value fails in some circumstances.

6324034 

Web Server has default limit for upload file size as 10 MB. 

6361485 

htaccess not working in Web Server 6.1 SP5 for User Document Directories.

6350122 

WS6.1SP5 on Windows: Cron-based log rotation fails with garbage characters inside the scheduler.conf file.

6388243 

Installing a CRL on Web Server 6.1SP4 (Windows) adds it to the CKLs section in the Administration GUI. 

6377343 

With NSS 3.11.1, certificates with new critical extensions like PolicyConstraints mentioned in RFC3280 can be imported into the certificate database.

6376634 

The SSL session was not timing out as expected when SSL3SessionTimeout or SSLSessionTimeout was configured to the user-defined value in magnus.conf. NSS 3.11.1 fixed the magnus.conf directives SSL3SessionTimeout and SSLSessionTimeout.

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP5

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP5.

Table 7 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP5

Problem ID 

Description 

6322443 

NSFC buffer size should be configurable (64-Bit). 

Additional Information: Use the new BufferSize nsfc.conf directive to configure the size of the buffer used to transmit file contents on cache misses. The following directive can be added to nsfc.conf to increase the buffer size from its default of 8192 bytes to 16384 bytes: BufferSize=16384

Larger buffer size might result in improved throughput at the cost of increased latency and memory utilization. 

6234284 

JES3 Web Server installation fails or core dumps if the Administration password contain shell meta characters such as ;, $, &, ^, *. (. ), |, <, >, ', `,”, \, and so on in the Administration password. 

6232465 

Include -N linker option for HP-UX Web Server builds.

6171389 

Input filter is called only for the first HTTP request when using Keep-Alive. All subsequent requests of the TCP connection are not being processed by the filter.

6195820 

Global resources are not available to load-on-startup Servlets. 

5042600 

Unable to migrate 6.0 SP7 Web Server instance to 6.1 SP2. 

6244615 

Web Server migration should correctly update RootCerts.

6219618 

JES Web Server 6.1 SP2 failed to index PDF version 1.5 (Acrobat 6.x) document for creating Search Collection.

6239342 

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in a default error page. 

4879994 

SSL: Data larger than 8k is huge when the request triggers new SSL handshake. 

Additional Information: By default, Web Server can upload files of sizes up to 1 MB (when client certificate authentication is optional). To upload files larger than 1 MB, increase SSLClientAuthDataLimit in the magnus.conf file. In case of simultaneous uploading of very large files, Web Server uses large amount of memory. To minimize memory utilization do any of the following actions:

  • If authentication is not required, turn off authentication.

  • If authentication is required, make it mandatory by setting require=1 in the obj.conf.

PathCheck fn="get-client-cert" dorequest="1" require="1"

6229472 

.htaccess directive is broken.

6170938 

acceptlanguage does not work for User Document Directories.

6180991 

Internal-Daemon Log Rotation does not work for files larger than 2 GB. 

6254121 

.htaccess fails to protect resources that do not have a corresponding file.

6185904 

New NSS error codes are not being handled properly. 

6262885 

Switching from HTTPS to HTTP causes generation of new session. 

Additional Information: Set the isSecure attribute of the session cookie for the web application under the cookie-properties to either true or false in the web application's sun-web.xml. The default value is true.

In the following example, isSecure is set to false for the web application by setting the parameter value to false.


<session-config>
    <cookie-properties>
      <property name="isSecure" value="false">
    </cookie-properties>
</session-config>

6222728 

SNMP services fail in Web Server 6.1 SP2/SP3 on the Windows 2000 platform. 

6273472 

Web Server 6.1 SP4 uninstall script displays an error message – `No such file or directory'. 

6259257 

Some PDF files fail to be indexed by the search engine. 

6253489 

Using JSP and several includes within the JSP throws ClassCastException in the ApplicationDispatcher.

6285847 

Requests with double Content-Length header should get rejected (HRS vulnerability).

Workaround: Add the StrictHttpHeaders directive in magnus.conf and set its value to on.

6275413 

Incorrectly configured home-page SAF crashes server. 

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP4

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP4.

Table 8 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP4

Problem ID 

Description 

6021153 

Required patch ID 112396-03 does not exist. 

The patch #112396-03 listed as required in earlier release notes was incorrect.  

The correct patch number is 112396-02. 

Solaris users must have the Sun recommended patch cluster installed, available in the Recommended and Security Patches section at http://sunsolve.sun.com.

Solaris 8 (SPARC)

  • Solaris 8 Update 7

  • Sun recommended latest Security and Recommended patch cluster

Solaris 9 (SPARC and x86)

  • Solaris 9 Update 4 or above.

  • Sun recommended latest Security and Recommended patch cluster

6066252 

Client certificates with AKI extension causes SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error.

6092498 

Web Server 6.1 fails to validate a client certificate with LDAP if the certificate contains Czech characters. 

6171311 

Frequent errors encountered when running Web Server with JDK 1.5. 

6171784 

Web Server performance issue with certain error logging configuration. 

4925875 

For Korean HTML collection, Korean word search with asterisk does not return any result. 

6171950 

Precompiled JSP files do not work as expected with reload-interval parameter in sun-web.xml.

Workaround: Use the property use-precompiled (set to true under jsp-config in sun-web.xml) to specify that the JSP files are precompiled and should never need to be compiled at runtime.

A sample sun-web.xml is as follows:

<sun-web-app>
   <session-config>
     <session-manager>
   </session-config>
   <jsp-config>
  <property name="use-precompiled" value="true" >
   </jsp-config>
</sun-web-app>

5048940 

Superuser Access Control page in Administration GUI not accessible after upgrade from SP1. 

6177544 

libpassthrough.so not present after RPM installation of plug-in.

6176231 

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP4 — Using the Delete certificate Administration GUI (bin/https/admin/security) core dumps with NSS 3.9.3 beta.

6173365 

Multiple package installers for the same build of Web Server of the Solaris SPARC/x86 platform. 

5039633 

Update NSS to 3.9 series. 

5063134 

Java Enterprise System symbolic link not used for J2SE location. 

6067407 

Problems using ACL_LDAPSessionFree().

6173293 

Web Server always sets content type to text/html when Servlet filter is set. 

6176264 

Web Server 6.1 SP4 Solaris x86 unable to start the SSL instance through the Administration GUI. 

6180677 

Web Server SP4 for JES3 is unable to upgrade on top of Web Server SP2 for JES2. 

6066139 

Tests fail while running Web Server with JDK1.5_beta2 release. 

6088595 

Administration console throws exception with JDK 1.5.0_beta2 while creating and editing classes. 

4904913 

I18N search: `?' wildcard search in Japanese causes wrong match.

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP3

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP3.

Table 9 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP3

Problem ID 

Description 

4798461 

GUI does not correctly reflect when `Transmit File' is turned off.

4904896 

I18N search: Sort encoding list of Default Encoding on search Administration GUI. 

4905412 

GUI does not permit to manage users in the keyfile database.

4991338 

Web Server Administration console does not show all the tabs (in Mozilla browser). 

5001819 

Web Server 6.1: Nova Search Engine sometimes does not pick up document. 

5014693 

Java filters, HTTP compression, and SHTML fail to interoperate. 

5021077 

A java.lang.NullPointerException is thrown if you click on the OK button without selecting the Directory Server.

5025617 

Web Server's JNDI needs to map resource-env-reffrom sun-web.xml.

5042676 

Request flow problem with Client tag code=302. 

5056989 

Enable prefixing of hostname in session ID. 

You can enable prefixing hostname in session ID for the web application by setting the value of the property prefixSessionIDWithHostname under manager-properties to yes, true, or on, in the web application sun-web.xml.

In the following example, prefixing host name in session ID is enabled for the web application by setting the parameter value to true.

<session-config>
  <session-manager>
   <manager-properties>
    <property name="prefixSessionIDWithHostname" value="true">
   </manager-properties>
  </session-manager>
</session-config>

5057749 

Web Server 6.1 SP2: Plug-in defined in certmap.conf does not load.

6041356 

Memory leaks when AdminLanguage and/or DefaultLanguage is specified in magnus.conf.

6057426 

The load balancer plug-in (formerly Resonate plug-in) loadbal.so does not work on the Solaris SPARC platform.

The location of the loadbal.so plug-in is server-root/plugins/loadbal.so.

5065017 

Servlet session data problem. 

5048051 

Create collection fails on Linux with RPM install. 

5029954 

Stack size is ignored when ConnQueueSize/RqThrottle is 0.

4898077 

Inconsistent behavior between HttpServerAdmin and iWS console.

5013100 

Two ports (for example, 2500 and 02500) are added in server.xml as different ports.

5046634 

2–byte character in HTTP header and plug-in programs. 

You can enable response header encoding at the web application level by setting the value of the configuration parameter use-responseCT-for-headers to yes, true, or on, in the web application's sun-web.xml.

In the following example, response header encoding is enabled for the web application setting the parameter value to true. A sample sun-web.xml is as follows:

<sun-web-app> 
  <parameter-encoding form-hint-field="j_encoding"> 
  <property name="use-responseCT-for-headers" value="true" > 
  <session-config> 
    <session-manager> 
  </session-config> 
 <jsp-config> 
</sun-web-app>

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP2

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP2.

Table 10 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP2

Problem ID 

Description 

4536102 

I18N: SNMP community name does not show up on Solaris Netscape. 

4536194 

CGI subsystem makes blocking calls from NSPR user threads. 

4536739 

Administration ACL and Superuser AC: The `Allow only from host' option does not work. 

4615933 

CORE SHTML: Cannot set Content-encoding for .shtml files.

4629796 

French Thread pool name displaying garbage characters on JA-NT (Internet Explorer and Netscape). 

4651056 

Web Server returns 404 for files starting with `..'.

4651206 

After adding a new mime type file, there is no way of verifying addition from the GUI. 

4651207 

Document preference web page should provide a file to use for error responses. 

4652009 

Customized access log file is not reflected in the GUI in the View Access Log tab. 

4657465 

Need to disable cookie-encoding. 

By default, the Sun Java System Web Server URL encodes the cookies before sending them to the client. If you do not want the cookies to be encoded, add the following line to sun-web.xml:

<property name="encodeCookies" value="false">

For the above example, add the line directly under the sun-web-app tag. Do not embed this line in any other tag.

4664945 

Internal Error from URL forwarding form. 

4666409 

Clearing the ErrorResponse CGI file name.

4676934 

Distributed -Administration: Overrides default ACI in Web Server 6.0 SP2. 

4676946 

No validation of virtual server settings form. 

4676950 

Internal error on removing http:// from URL forwarding form.

4682434 

CGI that has scripts to grab environment variables fails to execute. 

4682894 

Cluster management - Selection of source server deselects target servers. 

4684775 

Asynchronous DNS is disabled by default. 

4707989 

Web-application/JSP: load-on-startup not working on JSP files. 

4704385 

Cluster: Null message in modify cluster when OK is clicked soon after reset. 

4705181 

User and group is not validating for the users and accepting blank spaces in CGI. 

4705204 

Newly added ACL files are not getting deleted after selecting delete. 

4706063 

chroot and directory are not validating correctly.

4711353 

Administration: Global|SNMP Master Trap Warning displays Form Element Missing:manager?.

4718914 

Turn the security ON for any instance server without installing a certificate. 

4724503 

After enabling IPv6 on GUI Edit listen socket, server will not start. 

4727597 

Administration GUI gets cluttered when a new server is added with a duplicate port. 

4721021 

Unable to access absolute URI on SSL enabled server. 

4727444 

Access Log reports incorrect data. 

4732877 

Urlhosts field does not accept more than one hostname.

4745314 

$id variable in VSCLASS docroot is not working on Windows.

4749239 

ACLI: Incorrect processing of ACL. 

4753601 

MaxRqHeader directive in magnus.conf is not working as desired.

4754934 

Vignette NSAPI plug-in on Web Server 6.0 not functioning correctly when HTTP1.1 is used. 

4761188 

LDAP: Improve LDAP dynamic group performance for ACLs. 

For performance reason, a new LDAP configuration parameter, dyngroups fast is introduced for SP2. With this parameter, Web Server will make an assertion about group membership bypassing nested individuals among dynamic groups.

For example, assuming that user alpha belongs to group A, group A is a member of group B by group B memberURL definition (dynamic group), and your ACL only grants group B access. In such case, web server will deny access from alpha because alpha is not regarded as member of group B.

If you want to support a nested group, do not define this new config for LDAP authentication service. You will not get performance gain consequently. A sample configuration directory is as follows: 

ldapregular ldap://localhost:389/o=TestCentral

ldapregular: dyngroups fast

4763653 

Validation required for the form elements in document preferences page. 

4764307 

Magnus.conf: Performance setting: accepting negative numbers.

4765709 

Administration: Configure Directory Service not validating binddn/password.

4770294 

Web Server 6.1 on Windows should add CR character to the end of the line in the access log. 

4786612 

Web Server treats `:' (colon) as a separator between hostname/IP and port in several places. This code needs to be updated to recognize when the `:' is actually part of an IPv6 address. 

4787310 

Eviction fails in NSFC when SmallFileSpace is set to a low value.

4788075 

Setting the PATH variable in magnus.conf for Web Server 6.0 SP5 does not work.

4800173 

Performance issue with large ACL file in conjunction with many virtual servers. 

4808402 

Native authenticator support. 

4814097 

Unable to select none as a program item under the program groups in GUI.

4822720 

Keep-alive subsystem should be dynamically tuned. 

The keep-alive subsystem requires tuning for optimal performance. In Web Server 6.0 this subsystem was tuned for heavy load and performs poorly when only a handful of concurrent keep-alive connections exist. The keep-alive subsystem was modified for Web Server 6.1 SP2 so it performs some dynamic tuning to accommodate the actual load. 

4849907 

shtml is parsed when execute permission is not set and configured.

4855807 

AIX: Web Server hangs after being restarted by watchdog. 

4858152 

Access log entries in the server.xml file of the migrated instance point to an invalid path.

4869527 

SNMP: Test fails for RH Linux 6.2/7.2/Adv Server 2.1, and Sun Linux 5. 

4862498 

New directory Service Screen not connected to interface. 

4870613 

Back button not working for frames in Netscape Navigator 7. 

4873766 

The upload-file SAF does not work correctly with chunked requests.

4882838 

Unable to specify protocol for URL in generated redirects. 

The server generates a self-referencing URL whenever it sends a redirect to a client. As of Web Server 6.1 SP1, the servername attribute of the LS element in server.xml can be used to configure the scheme used in server-generated self-referencing URLs.

For example, if an SSL offloader sits between the Internet and the Web Server instance, decrypting SSL-encrypted traffic for http://www.sun.com and relaying it to the Web Server on port 8080, an LS element such as the following could appear in server.xml:

<LS remap="ls1" port="8080" security="disabled"...servername="https://www.sun.com">

The https:// prefix in the servername value instructs the server to use the HTTPS scheme in self-referencing URLs even though the LS is not configured to handle SSL traffic.

4889081 

Internal log rotation creates empty logs. 

4894033 

Distributed-administration: Functioning of Administration ACL `Allow only from host/IP' is not as per documentation. 

4896881 

While using untar to expand the Web Server bits, the ownership and group information is not correct. 

4897074 

On Linux only: When you create a collection, PDF files will not be indexed and added to the collection. 

4899105 

The highlighting of the connection value in the Edit Virtual Server page is not correct. 

4905175 

WebDAV ACL settings are inherited into new Virtual Servers. 

4909378 

The Help button in the Edit WebDAV page is not pointing to the correct help page. 

4903449 

Performance affected with multiprocess mode and one thread. 

4905681 

The AsyncDNS setting is ignored in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP1. The Web Server never performs asynchronous DNS lookups.

Note that even when the magnus.conf has AsyncDNS on, Asynchronous DNS is still turned off.

4908631 

An error message status is returned when you try to stop the server when it is not running. 

4907288 

Cluster Management file transfer not working on Windows. 

4909678 

Web Server 6.1 Digest authentication is not working for flat files. 

4910266 

Web Server 6.1: Creating Digest file users through the GUI duplicates users in exponential order. 

4904088 

Migration final page needs to encode the `<' and `>' characters HTML. 

4908986 

JDBC: Servlet code UploadServlet mishandles SQL exceptions.

4904896 

I18N search: sort encoding list of Default Encoding on search Administration GUI. 

4908010 

Unable to remove search collection for a newly created virtual server. 

4908401 

I18N: Un-localized timestamp for each search-returned documents. 

4910222 

Error on Windows when trying to create a collection with a document root that has back slashes. 

Workaround:  This behavior occurs when you specify a document root that has back slashes or mixed slashes. Use forward slashes.

4911548 

Server returns ConfigException while creating the duplicate search collection.

4911656 

I18N: Can not go to `sort by date' link while searching multibyte characters. 

4913909 

i18n: error adding file with Korean filename - skipping since no read permission. 

4913228 

Missing quote in Oracle script for jdbcRealm sample application.

4910869 

NSFC enhancement needed. 

Add the ReplaceFiles nsfc.conf directive.

When ReplaceFiles=true (default), the existing file cache behavior is preserved.

ReplaceFiles=false indicates that once a file is cached, its file cache entry should never be discarded to make room for another file. This setting is useful in benchmark scenarios because eliminates contention on the hit list lock.

4910272 

Server should not accept mixed slashes for the doc root while adding a new server. 

4912254 

Web Server installation fails due to set -o noclobber in .env.

4911070 

Web Server 6.1: Add listen socket protocol family field is missing for IPv6 address. 

4911630 

Many of the fields in the magnus editor do not have validations because they are accepting negative integer values. 

4911550 

Getting ServletException while trying to access the server with additional doc.

4911633 

Change Password for the user is not working. 

4913566 

The URL Forwarding Editing Page is not consistent. 

4919473 

Updating Security Realm properties from Administration GUI is not reflected in server.xml.

4913289 

Help on `Edit Virtual Class' does not give complete criteria for VS class deletion.

4916331 

Keep-alive connections can hang under light load. 

4925475 

The server.xml createconsole attribute is ignored.

4925938 

Null Pointer exception thrown if the user mistakenly edits the VS Administration URL.

4929848 

Performance: Web Server polls kstat once per second.

4926414 

I18N-korean: Re-indexing collection hangs when missing one or more existing docs. 

4935797 

certmap.conf file location misrepresented.

4930327 

Destination headers are not URL decoded in MOVE/COPY requests. 

4933483 

SIGCHLD signals are reported on startup.

4935582 

TCP_NODELAY need not be set for AF_NCA.

4930642 

Source returned when the file's mime.types entry does not end with a carriage return.

4930329 

Default values of maxpropdepth is poorly chosen.

4932995 

The leading `/' is being removed when deleting web application through Administration GUI. 

4935420 

Resource picker for restrict access fails for migrated instance of 6.1. 

4944850 

Address directive not properly migrated when migrating from Web Server 4.1 to 6.1. 

4946829 

Administration: Creating a new virtual server after migration causes $user: unable to find value.

4941027 

Cross-site scripting in Web Server administration interface. 

4948397 

Web Server 6.1 SP1 SNMP is not working. 

4946187 

Distributed-Administration: After enabling distributed administration, if an ACL is set to allow authenticated users only, the server still allows access to other users in the Administration group. 

4947005 

Add server instance is not working on the Solaris x86 platform. 

4940040 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference defines non-existent TYPE element.

4942750 

Search example is incorrect. 

4943631 

Wrong documentation on the thread pool configuration file. 

4941741 

Web Server 6.1 SP1 server on Solaris 8 SPARC fails to start due to libCld.so.

4945994 

fc_net_write should result in a single system call.

4940418 

Third-party profiler support for bytecode instrumentation. 

4943329 

IWSSessionManager does not work as expected with Web Server 6.1.

4947065 

The search web application shows only a maximum of 11 collections. 

4947624 

Ineffective alert message displayed while re-indexing on Windows. 

4950552 

Wrong number of results for particular output results (11, 21, 31...). 

4954789 

Web Server deployment fails with ClassCastException.

4956415 

Web Server 6.1 Search: Requesting an ability to display the meta tag description. 

4950644 

Ineffective alert message displayed while creating a duplicate collection on Linux. 

4951860 

httpagt depends on NETSITE_ROOT variable.

4957158 

fc_open fails when running specweb99 on x86 build.

4952492 

MOVE method should rename files when possible.

4958571 

PR_NetAddrToString performance is less than expected.

4951264 

Web Server crashes during Java-triggered reconfiguration and server shutdown. 

4958755 

ServletContext.getContext(String) does not return other contexts when called from root context. It returns the root context.

4950653 

`Null' is displayed for QoS vsclass values.

4951982 

Invalid error message is displayed while configuring LDAP with wrong credentials. 

4953147 

Cron-based log rotation fails when Administration user is root, and instance is non-root. 

Workaround: Change the user to match the Administration server user in the scheduler.conf file.

4961864 

Web Server hangs when using rotate-callback. 

4962059 

Administration password stored as plain text in file setup.inf.

4969637 

Minor coding error in send-error SAF. 

4961999 

After adding a virtual server, the top frame does not show the virtual server in the dropdown box. 

4962624 

Administration: No Validation for protocol value in Edit Listen socket. 

4963483 

The GUI gets cluttered if an ACL file path contains a forward slash. 

4968422 

Showing up invalid ACL file on the browser in the WebDAV screen. 

4966497 

Perf Dump data for Average Queueing Delay is not correct. 

4970955 

Cross-site security issue with Apache sample (\plugins\java\samples\webapps\simple).

4972573 

Incorrect behavior in web-apps-sample sample application in Web Server 6.1 SP1.

4972587 

Incorrect instructions in index.html of the internationalization sample application.

4976454 

Samples shipped with Web Server 6.1. 

4970273 

FastCGI beta libraries are in RTM Web Server packages. 

4976953 

AIX 6.0 SP6: forbidden error to a GET for a file with correct group permissions. 

4976490 

Log messages are truncated. 

4975675 

Dynamic reconfiguration fails when server is under load. 

4976910 

NSFC_GetEntryPrivateData() calls NSFC_ExitCacheMonitor() when no entry exists.

4973079 

The GUI retains dismissed invalid port entries and populates it when servername field validation fails.

4975788 

classpath edited using Internet Explorer is broken; server JVMTM can't start.

4975798 

Cannot add path to classpath suffix using web-admin.

4975782 

Cannot delete external JNDI reference. 

4970188 

RPM can't locate system umask. 

4971298 

pkgchk -n fails for Web Server package in Java ES.

4986761 

Web Server 6.0 migration fails. 

4989231 

Server fails to start up on Linux platform. Wrong JDK path during build. 

4988104 

Edit Virtual Servers page should update the connections value correctly. 

4986700 

Last-modified and Etag are suppressed when Servlet filters are used. 

4991888 

The wrong file name is stored for key file configuration. 

4992739 

Cannot start Web Server instance, after modifying its classpath suffix.

4995447 

Web Server 6.1 SP2 RH Linux unable to access Administration GUI; throws error message after login. 

4995489 

Solaris x86: Distributed Administration cannot be enabled. 

4991775 

Validation of cookie name in cookie example Servlet. 

5002905 

Superuser Access Control cannot be set even when Distributed Administration is not enabled. 

5012107 

POST request body consumed twice when using bad plug-in. 

4962659 

Search criteria is truncated to 100 characters. 

4967580 

Search displays wrong links for the SSL enabled instance. 

4970181 

Stellent filters need to be added to the Linux and Solaris x86 builds. 

4975327 

indexMetatags of the nova search should be set automatically.

4975367 

Indexing for the meta tag should be case-insensitive. 

4997149 

Removing documents with a *.* pattern is not removing all the files when the excludeExtensions property is set.

4997178 

Server returns null pointer exception while indexing .sxg file when excludeExtensions is set.

4997697 

Page numbers are not displayed properly on the search results page. 

4844616 

Misconfiguration of bswitch causes crash.

4854698 

Plug-in crashes with malformed request. 

4866965 

ACLI: Failed authentication is logged twice in the server errors log file. 

4880864 

ACL: Web Server returns “404 Not found” errors when ACLs deny access. 

4915326 

WEBC: granting signedBy permissions to Jar files does not work.

4918754 

Web Server 6.1 cannot process HTTP URL GET parameter that is in 8-bit charset. 

4924921 

Cannot set 800 MB of JVM maximum heap size on Windows 2000 using JDK 1.3.1. 

4926336 

Using % in the value of the JSP parameter corrupts the query string. 

4927770 

Server aborts with SIGABRT from within libjvm.

4928358 

JSP errors are wrongly reported as “Not Found” errors. 

4930374 

extra-class-path attribute in class-loader element in sun-web.xml does not work as expected.

4932893 

Dynamic reloading does not work for web application descriptor files, for example, web.xml.

4939370 

Web container thread names are not unique. 

4934083 

LDAP: Crash during LDAP authentication. 

4934562 

WEBC: getRemoteUser() does not work for stand-alone JSP files.

4935669 

WEBC: Request may not always contain client certificate data. 

4935570 

Certificate data not always present even when available. 

4932547 

Tomcat AuthenticatorBase returns 500 instead of 403.

4946762 

Out–of-box default realm should be native. 

4948123 

Web Server 6.1 incorrectly reports client key size in certain situations. 

4949842 

WEBC: isUserInRole() does not match when using core authentication.

4957829 

LDAP: User can enter wildcard `*' for UID in basic authentication. 

4960013 

Cannot have more than one LDAP realm. 

4968857 

htconvert not converting .nsconfig wildcard patterns correctly.

4968882 

htconvert does not work on 6.1 style server.xml.

4960873 

NPE encountered when a session is expired simultaneously by two (2) threads. 

4973927 

EPIPE signal not caught as an IOException from OutputStream.write().

4976277 

Using JDK 1.4.1 provided JNDI connection pool for LDAP pooling. 

4983707 

Changing the log level to Security causes NullPointerException upon start.

4981028 

Distributable semantics in web.xml is not honored by the web container.

4993468 

getResourcePaths returns paths that contain `//'.

4996219 

webservd leaks memory on RedHat Linux Advance Server 3.0.

4997593 

Poor integration between NSAPI srvhdrs and HttpServletResponse headers.

4997756 

LOCK-UNLOCK is not working properly and the GUI does not show lock information properly. 

4997838 

Web Server does not start on RedHat Linux AS 3.0 with Security turned On.

5003531 

500 error when accessing a web application with transport-guarantee=CONFIDENTIAL from a non-SSL port.

5004542 

ASN.1 parsing bugs/brute forcer program can cause Web Server crash. 

5016494 

NSS: Crash in DER_UTCTimeToTime with corrupt certificate.

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP1

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP1.

Table 11 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP1

Problem ID 

Description 

4642650 

Option needed to disable appending of absolute URL in a Servlet or JSP container. 

Fix details: New property added to sun-web.xml: relativeRedirectAllowed

Default value: false

Description: If true, allows the web application to send a relative URL to the client using the HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect() API. That is, it suppresses the container from translating a relative URL to a fully qualified URL.

4793938 

Enabling Remote File Manipulation from the Server Manager GUI allows any remote user to obtain a listing of any directory in the server's URI space. 

4904201 

javahome path wrongly set when adding a server with no bundled JDK.

4911580 

Adding a new server instance might fail with a Server Error message. 

4928794 

Server restarts when trying to create null resource by PUT. 

4929913 

Search engine does not extract and index FTS information from PDF files. 

Fix details: This fix applies to all supported platforms except Linux.

The Author, Subject, and Keywords meta tags are always indexed. Functionality has been added that now enable arbitrary meta tags to be indexed, including those tags produced when converting the FTS_* attributes from PDF files. Manual configuration of a new setting in server.xml is required, as described below.

  • In the SEARCH section of server.xml, add a PROPERTY with name="indexMetatags". The value should be a comma-delimited list of meta tag names. Note that the Author , Subject, and Keywords meta tags are always indexed, regardless of this setting.

  • To index the meta tags resulting from the conversion of PDFs and other types of documents, this configuration must use the name of the meta tag rather than the name of the field in the particular document type. For example, to index the FTS_Title contents from PDF files, "Title" must be a component of the "indexMetatags" setting:

    <PROPERTY name="indexMetatags" value="Title">


Note –

See issue 4956415 for details about displaying custom meta tag information in search results.


4933935 

On Solaris 9 release: reconfig does not work in package-based installs.

4945089 

ASN.1 parsing issue in SSL. 

A problem has been identified in the implementation of the SSL protocols used by the Web Server that may be exploited as a Denial of Service attack. Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP1 fixes this problem. If you use the Web Server to host sites that utilize SSL version 3 or TLS, you are strongly encouraged to install this service pack. 

4950388 

The reconfig command does not work on Windows XP.

4964069 

The commit.exe utility crashes on Windows platforms.

Issues Resolved in 6.1

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1.

Table 12 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1

Problem ID 

Description 

4869693 

On Windows, the Web Server installation overwrites SunONE Directory Server .dll files due to cohabitation issues with Directory Server 5.x.

4540254 

Rotating log files shouldn't require server restart on UNIX. 

4727146 

Logs filling with `connection reset' entries. 

4786735 

Installer does not set proper JDK CLASSPATH/LIBPATH when the external JDK is used. 

4792721 

Incorrect error messages when LDAP server is offline. 

4799452 

sun.tools.javac.Main has been deprecated. Its exception stops valid JSP files.

4801874 

ACL_LDAPSessionAllocate always returns LAS_EVAL_FAIL.

4811418 

Digest authentication crashes. 

4819405 

Memory leak of the slapd process with the digestauth plug-in.

4820513 

digestauth plug-in code is not thread safe.

4839875 

When using cachefs or nfs as ClassCache and document-root, Sun Java System Web Server does not always pick up the new JSP. 

4842190 

Web Server crashes when receiving Accept-Language header larger than 15 languages.

4842574 

Server crash with malformed request. 

4842601 

Accept-Language header security issue.

4846832 

CRL corrupts database. 

4848896 

digestauth plug-in crashes for a particular type of request.

4849914 

Memory leak in digestauth plug-in for a particular type of request.

4855546 

Log analyzer vulnerability. 

4858026 

JSP: crash in getParameter when posting large amounts of data.

4867887 

Basic authentication fails for users with user IDs that have spaces. 

4903319 

When you create a collection, not all documents will be indexed and added to the collection. 

Issues Resolved in 6.1 Documentation

The following table lists the issues resolved in the English language version of Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP6 and later documentation.


Note –

The following issues exist in the localized version of Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 documentation.


Table 13 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Documentation

Problem ID 

Description 

6507454 

Current documentation gives incorrect instructions on how to log cookie information. 

6528670 

Administrator's Guide should document the steps to restart, start, or stop the schedulerd control daemon from command line.

6528678 

Release Notes and Installation and Migration Guide have different Support Platform description for Web Server 6.1 SP7.

6528682 

Two Server Instances Bind to Same Port on Windows. 

6543821 

Server does not close the old listen sockets on restart or reconfigure. 

6559753 

The release notes for the reverse proxy plug-in should include a Resolved Issues section. 

6570039 

Administrator's Guide needs correction: the -P option in the Exporting with pk12util section should contain a hyphen (-) after https-test-host.

6367812 

Online help does not document steps to restart the schedulerd.

4957123 

Administrator's Guide does not document the Search Query operators.

6493741 

Provide steps on "How to Stop the schedulerd from a command line".

6384436 

Reverse proxy plug-in is missing some important documents. 

6401395 

6.1 Passthrough/Fastcgi plug-ins startup messages create confusion. 

6170766 

Upgrade procedure of Java ES does not use the JES installer. 

6418693 

Description about netbuf_getbytes() is not available in the 6.1 NSAPI guide.

6472668 

Web Server 6.1 Windows installation should use -Xrs JVM option by default. 

6503463 

Web Server 6.1 release notes has Sun internal URL. 

6378473 

Release Notes for Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Add-Ons Reverse Proxy Plugin has an incorrect default value for the validate-server-cert SAF.

6391505 

Installation and Migration Guide should document configuration file writability, root security risks, and Solaris net_privaddr privilege.

6359385 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference should document the magnus.conf variable MaxKeepAliveConnections value range for 64–bit server.

6358849 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference should document the MaxOpenFiles attribute in the nsfc.conf configuration file.

5065188 

6173274 

Administrator's Guide incorrectly describes a Find menu Passage Search option in the Advanced Search section. This menu option is not available.

6155266 

Administrator's Guide describes the configuration log level incorrectly.

6206074 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference describes an incorrect default value for the ChildRestartCallback directive.

6170766 

Installation and Migration Guide describes an incorrect method of upgrading a new version of Web Server in the Before You Install Sun ONE Web Server section.

6170769 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference has incorrect information about the AdminLanguage directive.

6173273 

Administrator's Guide has a typographical error under section Choosing MIME Types.

6173133 

NSAPI Programmer's Guide describes an incorrect example of a NSAPI Function Reference.

6173272 

Administrator's Guide incorrectly documents the supported version of Java as `1.4.1_03'.

5029460 

Administrator's Guide documents an incorrect certmap.conf configuration.

4975161 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference does not document the optional parameter `block-size' for pool-init.

5002190 

Administrator's Guide does not contain information about the htpasswd command utility.

5002192 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference has incorrect information about the loglevel attribute.

5038534 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference has incorrect default value for the LogFlushInterval directive.

4781137 

Administrator's Guide has the following incorrect information:

  • The path where libdigest-plugin.ldif exist is not defined in the guide.

    Additional Information: libdigest-plugin.ldif is available at server-root/plugins/digest/libdigest-plugin.ldif.

  • Information to configure the Web Server to process digest authentication (set the digestauth property of the database definition in dbswitch.conf) is given without describing the procedure to do it.

  • libdigest-plugin.so is incorrectly mentioned as libdigest-plugin.lib.

  • Description of iplanetReversiblePassword is missing.

4823362 

Administrator's Guide needs to be updated with additional information regarding ACL.

5046588 

Installation and Migration Guide incorrectly documents the supported version of Sun accelerator hardware.

5052605 

NSAPI Programmer's Guide does not clearly specify that content-type needs to be in lower case.

5062560 

Installation and Migration Guide does not document the method of disabling the start-on-boot option.

6285234 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference incorrectly describes the default value of the StrictHttpHeaders directive as on.

6067318 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference has insufficient information about the set-variable error parameter.

6230379 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference incorrectly describes a remove-file() SAF.

6208955 

NSAPI Programmer's Guide incorrectly documents the description of SERVER_SOFTWARE as MAGNUS_VERSION_STRING.

6320016 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference does not clearly define the default value of listenQ on Windows.

6354681 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference needs more information about DNS.

Known Issues

This section lists the more important known issues and limitations at the time of the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 release. The issues are listed as follows:

General

The following table lists General known issues.

Table 14 General Known Issues

Problem ID 

Description 

6496339 

(Windows 2003 only) Report generation fails with lganalyz.exe application error in Web Server 6.1 SP6.

Workaround:

  1. Log in to the Web Server machine.

  2. Go to WSinstall\bin\https\httpadmin\bin.

  3. Run the flexanlg util command to get the report, for example, C:/Sun/WEBSER~1.1/extras/flexanlg/flexanlg -F -n jwsoffice -x -i C:/Sun/WEBSER~1.1/HTTPS-~2/logs/access -c hnrfeuok -t s5m5h10 -l c+5h5 -p ctl


Note –
  • Type the above command in a continuous line.

  • Replace jwsoffice with your hostname or IP address. You also can export the output to an HTML file and use a browser to view it. For more information on the flexanlg utility, see Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Administrator's Guide.


6553259 

Web Server 6.1 SP8, when run with JDK 6 shows the search collection names (checkbox) in a different order in the search pages, as compared to when it is run with older JDK versions. 

6198559 

JES3: Patch upgrade of Web Server on Linux displays false uninstall notification. 

4988370 

6413819 

Contents do not get updated under a particular situation on HP-UX 11.0 platforms. 

The HP-UX operating system has two cache spaces, Page Cache and Buffer Cache, for accessing files. Normally, when the application performs the mmap function, the file is mapped to Page Cache.

However, currently the operating system has no responsibility to synchronize the data between the Page Cache and Buffer Cache if the mmap is performed as PRIVATE option. Even if you copy the file, the operating system refreshes the cached data only in the Buffer Cache.

Workaround: Use a text editor to update the contents each time.

6404983 

Searching of Users and Groups through LDAP server using Administration Graphical User Interface fails. 

Workaround: For this feature to work, install Red Hat AS 3.0 update 1–uname -r: 2.4.21-9.ELsmp.

5060906 

Authorization dialog appears for an unprotected directory without an index file. 

Additional information: If a directory does not have an index file such as index.html, index.jsp, or home.html, then while turning on ACL authentication anyone with read and write permission is denied the list access even though this directory is unprotected.

Workaround: To revert back to the previous behavior of 6.1, change the default ACL so that anonymous users are allowed list privileges. Make the change as follows:

allow (read, execute, info, list) user = "anyone"

Administration

The following table lists the known issues in Administration.

Table 15 Known Issues in Administration

Problem ID 

Description 

6543821 

6531819 

If you remove a listen socket or change its port number and restart or reconfigure the server, the server fails to close the old listen socket. The operating system continues to accept connections on that port, but the server will not respond to requests on that port. 

Work around: Close the old listen socket, stop the server and restart it.

6301761 

ACL applet might fail to load with Mozilla 1.4 and Firefox 1.0.6. 

6021151 

Problem using HttpServerAdmin to create a JNDI resource containing an LDAP domain name containing commas.

Workaround: For HttpServerAdmin to escape the `,' in the property, use `\\' as the escape character. Use `\' on the Windows platforms.

In the property java.naming.provider.url=ldap://localhost:389/ou=loggingQueues,ou=tms,ou=services,ou=abc the `,' are escaped as shown here:

-property java.naming.provider.url=ldap://localhost:389/ou=loggingQueues\\,ou=tms\\,ou=services\\,ou=abc

5007892 

Distributed Administration: ACL deletion does not clean up obj.conf.

Workaround: Comment out NameTrans for https-admserv:


#NameTrans fn="assign-name" name="https-admserv" from="/https-admserv/*" 

5035129 

Unable to manage Directory Server user/group/ou using Web Server 6.1 SP2 Administration on RedHat Linux Advance Server 3.0.

4650456 

View Access and View Error does not work properly with multibyte characters. 

4652585 

When Distributed Administration is enabled, the local Administration user is disabled. 

Workaround: Create a user with the default Administration user name within the distributed Administration group.

The newly created LDAP Administration user must have the same password as the Web Server Administration user. 

4725683 

The log file date stamp does not take the local time zone into account and shows the incorrect date. 

Workaround: If the date in the log file filename extension should match the date of the log entries, configure the server to rotate the log files at 23:59.

4761960 

Web Server 6.0 SP4: Cannot enable Distributed Administration when using SASL and anonymous bind. 

Workaround: Do not use anonymous bind to an SSL-enabled directory server.

4841310 

Can't get REMOTE_USER variable when authenticated by .htaccess.

Workaround: If you enable .htaccess files, the server checks for .htaccess files before serving resources. The server looks for .htaccess files in the same directory as the resource and in that directory's parent directories, up to and including the document root. For example, if the Primary Document Directory is set to /sun/server/docs and a client requests /sun/server/docs/reports/index.html, the server will check for .htaccess files at /sun/server/docs/reports/.htaccess and /sun/server/docs/.htaccess.

Note that the server's Additional Document Directories and CGI Directory functionality allows an administrator to define alternate document roots. The existence of alternate document roots affects .htaccess file processing. For example, consider a server with the Primary Document Directory set to /sun/server/docs and a CGI program at /sun/server/docs/cgi-bin/program.cgi.

If you enable CGI as a File Type, the server will evaluate the contents of both /sun/server/docs/.htaccess and /sun/server/docs/cgi-bin/.htaccess when a client issues a request for the CGI program.

However, if you configure a CGI Directory at /sun/server/docs/cgi-bin, the server will inspect /sun/server/docs/cgi-bin/.htaccess but not /sun/server/docs/.htaccess. This occurs because specifying /sun/server/docs/cgi-bin as a CGI Directory marks it as an alternate document root.

4865295 

The End User Administration feature (under Distributed Administration in the Administration interface) is no longer supported. 

4882999 

Inconsistent look and feel of the Administration GUI. 

4888696 

The Add Server page in the Administration GUI disappears in Netscape Navigator 7.0 when insufficient information is provided. 

Workaround: Provide complete information on the Add Server page before clicking OK. If necessary, reload the page to restore the Add Server GUI, or click another page or another tab and then navigate back to the Add Server page. This problem occurs only in Netscape Navigator 7.0.

4910309 

The word `null' is incorrectly displayed on an alert message. 

This word displays when editing directory services in the Pick Directory for Virtual Server page in the Virtual Server Manager. 

4905808 

Superusers cannot access the Administration interface after enabling distributed administration. 

Workaround: After enabling distributed administration, create a user in LDAP with the same administration user name and password as that of superuser.

4908694 

Default link not working for Logging Settings.

The default link on the Logging Settings for Virtual Server page does not set the default path, but rather acts as a reset button.

4910197 

When editing a JDBC resource, the properties page retains values after they have been deleted. 

4911552 

.shtml files are parsed even if you configure them to be un-parsed.

No ID 

The sun-web.xml file bundled with the Web Server points to the wrong DTD location.

Correction: The correct location is http://www.sun.com/software/dtd/appserver/sun-web-app_2_3-1.dtd.

6284698 

Web Server is not operational when installed as non-root user. 

Workaround: Start the Web Server instance from the command line instead of using the Web Administration console.

6078104 

JSP applications are not accessible from WS6.1 when the passthrough plug-in is configured.

Workaround: Change the line from the service directive of passthrough from

Service type="magnus-internal/passthrough" fn="service-passthrough"servers="http://server:port"

to 

Service fn="service-passthrough" servers="http://server:port"

4991278 

No Administration GUI feature is available to delete JSP ClassCache files.

6316265 

The Administration GUI says Click Apply for the changes to take affect but no Apply button exists in the Administration Server. 

Core

The following table lists the known issues in Core.

Table 16 Known Issues in Core

Problem ID 

Description 

6363944 

webservd child process orphaned when Solaris crypto softtoken (libpkcs11.so) is used in Web Server 6.1SP5 64-bit.

Workaround: This problem occurs only when the server is explicitly configured to use the Solaris softtoken. If you have to use fork(), Runtime.exec(), or <!--#exec cmd="..."-->, do not configure the server to use the Solaris softtoken.

6313832 

Existing 32-bit plug-ins cannot be used with the 64-bit release. Attempting to load a 32-bit plug-in using the 64-bit Sun Java System Web Server release will result in an error message such as the following: 

Sun ONE Web Server 6.1SP5 (64-Bit) B10/28/2005 09:00

failure: CORE3170: Configuration initialization failed: Error running init function load-modules: dlopen of plugin.so failed (ld.so.1: webservd: fatal: plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32)

Workaround: Use the 32-bit release of Sun Java System Web Server or contact the plug-in vendor to obtain a 64-bit release of the affected plug-in.

4939491 

On HP-UX: Executing the ./stop script gives an error message and kills the process group.

Documentation and Online Help

The following table lists the known issues in Documentation and Online Help.


Note –

For a list of known issues in the localized versions of 6.1 documentation, see Issues Resolved in 6.1 Documentation.


Table 17 Known Issues in Documentation

Problem ID 

Description 

6506960 

Online Help indicates that the maximum characters for an authentication password is eight characters. 

Additional Information: The authentication characters for an authentication password can be more that eight characters.

4964908 

No documentation available regarding feature upgrades.  

Additional Information: See Installation, Upgrade, and Migration Notes.

5016571 

Online Help page under Generic Thread Pools gives invalid information.

5053339 

Online Help—Directory Indexing information is missing in the Administrator's Guide and online help.

4928287 

All documents do not inform the user the nonexistence of instance/lib directory.

Additional Information:This directory is not created by the installer. Users have to create the directory if it does not exist.

6237303 

Release Notes for SUN ONE Web Server 6.1 does not list all patches that are required for the Solaris SPARC platform.

Additional Information: 109326-09 is a required patch for Web Server 6.1 on Solaris release 8.

Installation

The following table lists the known issues in Installation.

Table 18 Known Issues in Installation

Problem ID 

Description 

5020317 

JDK only upgrade results in disabling search. The user receives an exception, and the search page is not accessible from the GUI. 

Workaround: This exception does not happen if Web Server 6.1 SP2 core is installed along with or prior to installing JDK alone. In addition, if Web Server 6.1 SP2 core is installed on top of a JDK-upgraded Web Server 6.1 SP1, the exception does not show up.

4855263 

Sun Java System Web Server will not start if it is installed into a directory with spaces in the name, for instance, Program Files. You will not receive an error message about this during installation, but following installation the server will not start.

Workaround: Do not install the Web Server into a directory with spaces in the name.

4869238 

On the Windows platform, the Sun Java System Web Server installer does not accept a long name as server-root.

Workaround: Specify a path name for the Sun Java System Web Server installation directory that is no longer than 128 characters even though the field allows you to type up to 256 characters.

4901205 

On the Solaris platform, Control-B does not work on screens that follow the Fully Qualified Domain Name screen in the installer, starting with the User and Group Name screen.

Workaround: If you need to return to previous screens during the installation, quit the installer and start again.

4937915 

On the AIX platform, Control-C makes the terminal screen hang during installation. 

This problem occurs on the screen used to specify the name of the computer on which the Web Server will be installed. 

4960048 

Some SNMP related files are overwritten when upgrading to Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP1. 

Workaround: Back up the following files before the upgrade:

server-root/plugins/snmp/magt/CONFIG

server-root/plugins/snmp/sagt/CONFIG

Migration

The following table lists the known issues in Migration.

Table 19 Known Issues in Migration

Problem ID 

Description 

6514480 

Cannot enable Java on a migrated 4.1 instance even after opting to enable JAVA at the time of migration and enabling from the GUI after migration. 

Workaround: Manually add the following entries to the obj.conf file and restart the instance:

<Object name="default">
	NameTrans fn="ntrans-j2ee" name="j2ee"
	NameTrans ......
	.......
	PathCheck .....
	.......
	ObjectType ......
	.......
	Service .......
	.......
	Error fn="error-j2ee"
	AddLog .....
</Object>

<Object .....
	.....
</Object>

<Object name="j2ee">
	Service fn="service-j2ee" method="*"
</Object>

4790457 

Cannot change the document root of a migrated server from 4.1. 

Workaround: Edit the migrated instance's obj.conf and server.xml manually. These files are located under SERVER_ROOT/HTTPS-INSTANCE/config directory.

In obj.conf change the line


NameTrans fn=document-root root="<existing_doc_root>"

to 


NameTrans fn=document-root root="$docroot"

In server.xml, under the relevant VSCLASS change the line

<PROPERTY name="docroot" value="existing-doc-root">

to 

<PROPERTY name="docroot" value="new-doc-root">

6213097 

ktsearch.jar is not migrated correctly on Sun Java Enterprise System 3 (JES3).

Workaround: Manually edit the server.xml file of the migrated instance to point to the correct path.

For Linux: /opt/sun/private/share/lib/ktsearch.jar

For Solaris SPARC: /usr/share/lib/ktsearch.jar

5007081 

Web application file status ignored during migration from 6.0 to 6.1 

Web application status defined at the file level in the server.xml file is not migrated. If a user has switched off the status of the web applications file to suppress them, upon migration these web applications are exposed.

Workaround: Edit the server.xml file of the migrated instance and turn off status for each web application.

4988156 

Installation of SP_2 patch on existing install (update) 

If you want to upgrade the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 that is installed as a part of Sun Java Enterprise System (JES), to the latest Service Pack, download and apply the relevant patches. For more details, refer to the JES 3 Migration and Upgrade Guide.

Samples

The following table lists the known issues in the sample applications. Note that none of these issues prevent the sample applications from functioning correctly.

Table 20 Known Issues in Samples

Problem ID 

Description 

5014039 

Simple JSP files throw an exception due to the distributable tag in web.xml.

Workaround:

  1. Remove the tag distributable from the web.xml file in the /simple/src directory.

  2. Redeploy the web application.

No ID 

rmi-iiop sample is missing a step.

In the “Deploying the Sample Application” section, after executing the command ant deploy (step 2), restart the Web Server instance.


Note –

ant is a Java build tool and must be downloaded from Apache at http://ant.apache.org. Also see the information provided in install-root/plugins/java/samples/docs/ant.html.


No ID 

jdbcrealm sample has the wrong Oracle driver name.

In the “Compiling and Assembling the Sample Application” section, step 2b, change the following line from: 

<PROPERTY name="dbdrivername" value="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource">

to 

<PROPERTY name="dbdrivername" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver">

Search

The following table lists the known issues in Search.

Table 21 Known Issues in Search

Problem ID 

Description 

4977315 

5038203 

AIX-Search Engine of 6.1 should have the ability to change the sort order. 

Workaround: To change the default order, add `+' as a first character of the sort string. Because `+' in URI is escaped, use `%2B' to change the order. In this case, change the URL to http://host/search/index.jsp?si=1&ns;=10&c;=test&qt;=*&sb;=%2Bwriter.

4684124 

If the document root of an already indexed collection is changed, the document returned by the search throws a Document Not Found error.

Workaround: Rebuild the entire collection by performing one of the following actions:

  • Remove all documents and add them back again.

  • Delete the collection and create it again.

4911725 

Search does not work when you search for a word using a different case pattern. 

Search results are not displayed on the the search page if you search using a word of mixed case. For example, typing sAmpLe instead of sample or SAMPLE. 

4963236 

On HP-UX: PDF files are not converted to HTML for inclusion in search collections. 

This problem occurs if the following patch is installed on the HP-UX 11i system: 

PHSS_28871 — ld/linker cumulative patch

Security

The following table lists the known issues in Security.

Table 22 Known Issues in Security

Problem ID 

Description 

4671445 

Sun Java System Web Server cannot connect to an LDAP server over SSL if LDAP client authentication is required. 

If Sun Java System Web Server contacts an LDAP server that requires client authentication (in this case, the Web Server is the client), the Web Server’s certificate cannot be sent and access will fail. 

4863599 

Cannot use the same group name under different organizational units. 

If the same group name is used and you try to restrict access with the group name, Sun Java System Web Server returns an error when clients try to access the site. 

Workaround: Use a different group name for each organizational unit.

4963468 

In some circumstances, the “list” right has no effect on directory listing. 

According to Chapter 9 of the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Administrator’s Guide, the “list” right is required to obtain directory listings from directories that do not contain an index file. However, in certain circumstances you can obtain a directory listing even if the applicable ACLs deny the list right.

If you need to restrict directory indexing, disable indexing, as discussed in Chapter 16 of the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Administrator’s Guide, instead of or in addition to denying the list right.

6310956 

6298215 

When LDAP drops the connection because of inactivity, for example, timeout set on the LDAP, Web Server is unable to re-initialize the connection to LDAP. This problem only occurs when Web Server is installed as part of the JES3/JES4 install. The problem does not exist in stand-alone (file-based) installation.  

Workaround:

  1. Copy the library libldap50.so from the file-based installation of Web Server and paste it to the following location in your current setup: /opt/SUNWwbsvr/bin/https/lib

  2. Restart the Web Server.

Tools

The following table lists the known issues in Tools.

Table 23 Known Issues in Tools

Problem ID 

Description 

4905696 

On Windows, deployment fails if the class file depth along with the file name exceeds 255 characters. 

4912181 

On Linux, a null pointer exception is thrown when deploying an application using the wdeploy command-line utility. This problem happens at the end of deployment, and only if it succeeds.

Workaround: The error occurs when wdeploy reads the stdout/stderr after executing reconfigure script following deployment. Check whether the server did reconfigure by looking in the errors log for the reconfigure message. If the message is not there, then run the reconfigure script manually.

Web Container

The following table lists the known issues in the Web Container.

Table 24 Known Issues in the Web Container

Problem ID 

Description 

6387189 

Java logging issues in a deployed module. 

4903162 

Issue on Windows related to the case of url-patterns.

As per the Servlet specification, the url-pattern elements in web.xml are case sensitive. This condition might lead to unexpected behavior for Windows users, for example, if a client makes a request for index.HTML expecting this string to match index.html.

WebDAV

The following table lists the known issues in WebDAV.

Table 25 Known Issues in WebDAV

Problem ID 

Description 

4892017 

Unable to rename or move a resource if the parent directory is locked exclusively. 

This problem occurs when DAV clients send the incorrect If : header. For example, if you connect to the Web Server using Macromedia Dreamweaver or DAV Explorer, create a collection, and then lock the collection with depth infinity, which locks all of its resources as well, you will not be able to rename or move a resource. Adobe GoLive sends the correct If : header only if the lock’s owner href matches auth_user. In all other cases with GoLive, the wrong header will also be sent.

4902651 

Lock Management screen in the Virtual Server Manager does not display the lock information properly for hard links. 

Symbolic links, hard and soft, are not supported by the WebDAV implementation in Sun Java System Web Server. 

Localization

The following table lists the known issues in the localization.

Table 26 Known Issues in the Localization

Problem ID 

Description 

4937055 

The Administration online help of Web Server is not localized.  

The Administration online help has been localized only up to the first level. The initial help pages are localized but clicking the links on a page, for example, Removing a Server displays help content in the English language. 

6441984 

The Administration online help is displayed in English even if the locale is set to zh-cn.

For zh-cn locale, the Administration GUI online help is in English. If the browser locale is zh-cn, then the complete Administration GUI online help is displayed in the English language.

Workaround: Set the browser's prefer locale to zh to view the online help in the Chinese language.

6583870 

Web server 6.1 SP8: In Internet Explorer 7, you can select the locale as ja or ja-JP. If you select the locale as ja, online help is displayed in Japanese. But when you select the locale as ja-JP, online help is displayed in the English language.

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