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Chapter 17 Applying Configuration Styles
Configuration styles are an easy way to apply a set of options to specific files or directories that your various virtual servers maintain. For example, you can create a configuration style that sets up access logging. When you apply that configuration style to the files and directories that you want to log, you don't have to individually configure access logging for all the files and directories in your virtual server.This chapter includes the following sections:
Creating a Configuration Style
Assigning a Configuration Style
Creating a Configuration Style
To create a configuration style, perform the following steps:
Access the Class Manager.
When you choose a style to edit, your Resource Picker lists configuration styles instead of other resources. After you have finished editing a style, click OK and Save and Apply. The Resource Picker exits the styles mode. You can also choose to exit the styles mode by choosing Exit styles mode from the Resource Picker. For more information about the Resource Picker, see Using the Resource Picker.Type the name you want to give the configuration style. Click OK.
From the drop-down list, choose a configuration style to edit and click Edit this Style.
- iPlanet Web Server displays the Edit a Style page.
From the list of links available, click the category you want to configure for your style.
Fill out the form that appears, and click OK.
- You can configure the information listed in Table 17-1.
Repeat step 4 and step 5 to make any other configuration changes to the configuration style. Click OK.
Table 17-1    Configuration Style Categories
Category
Description
Allows you to activate CGI as a file type. For more information about CGIs, see Installing CGI Programs.
Allows you to change the character set for a resource. For more information about character sets, see Changing the Character Set.
Allows you to set a default query handler for a server resource. For more information about query handling, see Using the Query Handler.
Allows you to give people a subset of configuration options without giving them access to the Server Manager.
Allows you to customize the error responses that clients see when they encounter an error from your server.
Allows you to set preferences for access logs. For more information about log preferences, see Setting Log Preferences.
Enables you to allow clients to upload files, delete files, create directories, remove directories, list the contents of a directory, and rename files on your server.
Allows you to restrict access to the entire server or parts of it. For more information about access control, see Controlling Access to Your Server.
Allows you to specify whether the server parses files before they are sent to the client.
Allows you to limit the use of file system links in your server. For more information about symbolic links, see Restricting Symbolic Links (Unix/Linux).
For more information, see The Create a New Style Pagein the online help.
Assigning a Configuration Style
Once you've created a configuration style, you can assign it to files or directories in your virtual server. You can specify either individual files and directories or wildcard patterns (such as *.gif).To assign a configuration style, perform the following steps:
Access the Class Manager.
For more information, see The Assign a Style Pagein the online help.Enter the prefix of the URL to which you are applying this configuration style.
Select the configuration style you want to apply.
- If you choose a directory inside the document root, only enter the path after the document root. If you enter /* after the directory, you apply the configuration style to all of the directory's contents.
- To remove any configuration style previously applied to the resource, apply the None configuration style. Click OK.
Listing Configuration Style Assignments
After you have created configuration styles and applied them to files or directories, you can get a list of the configuration styles and where you applied them.To list the configuration style assignments, perform the following steps:
Access the Class Manager.
For more information, see The List Assignments Pagein the online help.Click the List Assignments link.
To edit a configuration style assignment, click the Edit link next to the configuration style name.
- iPlanet Web Server displays the List Assignments page, showing the configuration styles you applied to server resources.
Editing a Configuration Style
To edit a configuration style, perform the following steps:
Access the Class Manager.
When you choose a style to edit, your Resource Picker lists configuration styles instead of other resources. After you have finished editing a style, click OK and Save and Apply. The Resource Picker exits the styles mode. You can also choose to exit the styles mode by choosing Exit styles mode from the Resource Picker. For more information about the Resource Picker, see Using the Resource Picker.Select the configuration style you want to edit and click the "Edit this style" button.
From the list of links available, click the category you want to configure for your style.
Fill out the form that appears, and then click OK.
- For more information on these categories, see the section Creating a Configuration Style.
Repeat Step 4 and Step 5 to make any other changes to the configuration style. Click OK.
For more information, see The Edit a Style Pagein the online help.
Removing a Configuration Style
Before removing a configuration style, remove assignments that had the configuration style applied to them. If you do not do this before removing the configuration style, you must manually edit the obj.conf file of your class of virtual server, searching for the configuration style in the file and replacing it with None. If you don't do this search and replace, anyone who accesses the files or directories that had the deleted configuration style applied will get a server misconfiguration error message.To remove a configuration style, perform the following steps:
For more information, see The Remove a Style Pagein the online help.
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