How to Install an iPlanet Web Server

To perform this procedure, you need the following information about your configuration:

• The server root directory (the path to the application binaries). You can install the binaries on the local disks or on the cluster file system. For a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each location, refer to "Determining the Location of the Application Binaries".

• The logical host name (for failover services) or shared address (for scalable services) to be used by clients to access the data service. You must configure these addresses and they must be online.

If you are running the Sun Cluster HA for iPlanet Web Server service and another HTTP server and they use the same network resources, configure them to listen on different ports. Otherwise, a port conflict might occur between the two servers.

1. Become superuser on a node in the cluster.

2. Run the setup command from the iPlanet install directory on the CD.

3. When prompted, type the location where the iPlanet server binaries will be installed.

   You can specify a location on the cluster file system or on local disks for the location of the install. If you choose to install on local disks, run setup on all the cluster nodes that are potential primaries of the network resource (logical host name or shared address) specified in the next step.

4. When prompted for a machine name, type the logical host name on which the iPlanet server depends and the appropriate DNS domain name.

   A full logical host name is of the format network-resource.domainname, such as schost-1.sun.com.

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   For Sun Cluster HA for iPlanet Web Server to fail over correctly, you must use either the logical host name or shared address resource name (rather than the physical host name) here and everywhere else you are asked.

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5. Select "Run admin server as root" when asked.

   Note the port number selected by the iPlanet install script for the administration server if you want to use this default value later when configuring an instance of the iPlanet Web server. Otherwise, you can specify a different port number when configuring the iPlanet server instance.

6. Type a Server Administrator ID and a chosen password when asked.

   Follow the guidelines for your system.

   When a message indicating that the admin server will be started is displayed, your installation is ready for configuration.

Where to Go from Here

To configure the Web server, see the next section, "How to Configure an iPlanet Web Server".