Complete Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Gateway Features
Chapter 2 Setting Up the Gateway
Chapter 3 Gateway Localization
Chapter 4 Files Controlling Gateway Functionality
Chapter 5 Entry Types and Object Class Attributes
Chapter 6 Search Attributes, Features, and Results
Chapter 7 Customizing Color and Graphics
Appendix A .conf Parameters
Appendix B Gateway Directives Reference
Appendix C CGI Usage
Appendix D Gateway User Help
Next Contents Index


Preface

The descriptions, instructions, and examples in this guide can be used to create and modify a gateway instance to suit the needs of users in your organization.


Who Needs This Guide
This guide is for anyone who needs to implement a simple gateway instance with basic directory lookup functionality. It is also for users who wish to implement a more powerful gateway instance with directory authentication and administration capability. This guide assumes the reader is familiar with HTML file syntax and has a rudimentary understanding of how the LDAP directory stores information.


What's In This Guide

  • Chapter 1, Gateway Features: Describes features and functionality of the gateways installed with Directory Server 4.x. HTTP server recommendations are also provided.
  • Chapter 2, Setting Up the Gateway: Identifies the planning decisions and tasks required to install and initially configure a gateway. Includes instructions for HTTP server configuration, procedures for setting up a new gateway instance, procedures for changing configuration settings on existing gateways, and recommendations for configuring gateway clients.
  • Chapter 3, Gateway Localization: Describes Netscape support for UTF-8, explains how the gateway selects a character set, identifies the tasks required to set up additional gateway locales, and explains how to set up gateway locales for translation.
  • Chapter 4, Files Controlling Gateway Functionality: Identifies gateway file components, including search configuration files, object class templates, script files, and search result templates.
  • Chapter 5, Entry Types and Object Class Attributes: Provides examples of entry types (objects) defined in the gateway's .conf file, provides examples of locations mapped to entry types, and discusses gateway directives.
  • Chapter 6, Search Attributes, Filters, and Results: Provides examples for modifying search attributes, adding search support for a new object, modifying default search filters, and customizing search results.
  • Chapter 7, Customizing Graphics and Color: Describes how to change the appearance of default gateway forms.
  • Appendix A, .conf Parameters: Describes, in alphabetical order, gateway configuration parameters defined in dsgw.conf and pb.conf.
  • Appendix B, Gateway Directives Reference: Describes directives used in Gateway HTML object class and search result templates.
  • Appendix C, CGI Usage: Provides regular expression-type descriptions of the ways to invoke the CGIs in script files.
  • Appendix D, Gateway User Help: Provides instructions for using the Directory Server 4.0 gateway interface. The information supplied here is intended to be repurposed as help topics that can be made available to gateway users from the Help button on gateway forms.

Related Information
For more information about working with Directory Server, see these documents:

 

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