Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8 Release Notes

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.