Launching AnswerBook2 Administration in a Browser From CDE or OpenWindows Running the Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7 Operating Environment (4191114)

In the Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 operating environments, invoking /usr/dt/bin/answerbook2_admin at the command line launches a web browser with the URL for the AnswerBook2 Administration page on the local AnswerBook2 Documentation Server. You can also access this function from the CDE Front Panel --> Applications --> System_Admin --> AnswerBook2 Admin icon.

If you try to access this function for a Solaris 7 or AnswerBook2 version 1.4 server from a system running the Solaris 2.6 operating environment (or the reverse), it fails with an error message. The following table identifies the version of the answerbook2_admin command (by operating environment) and its relationship to the version of the AnswerBook2 Documentation Server.

If you launch /usr/dt/bin/answerbook2_admin from the Solaris 2.6 operating environment and the AnswerBook2 server is the Solaris 2.6 version (AnswerBook2 version 1.0.1), the command works as expected. Similarly, if you launch this command from the Solaris 7 operating environment and the AnswerBook2 server is either version 1.2 or version 1.4, there is no error.

The workaround for a Solaris 2.6 server is to enter the URL http://localhost:8888/cgi-bin/admin/admin. For a Solaris 7 server, enter the URL http://localhost:8888/ab2/@Ab2Admin.