Sun ONE Web Server 6.1 Administrator's Guide |
About This Guide
This guide describes how to configure and administer Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Web Server 6.1. It is intended for information technology administrators in the corporate enterprise who want to extend client-server applications to a broader audience through the World Wide Web.
This preface includes the following sections:
What’s In This Guide?This guide explains how to configure and administer the Sun ONE Web Server. After configuring your server, use this guide to help maintain your server.
After you install the server, this guide is available in HTML format at /manual/https/ag in your server root directory. By default, the server root directory is C:\Sun\WebServer6.1\ or /opt/SunWwbsvr.
How This Guide Is OrganizedThis guide is divided into five parts, plus a glossary, and a comprehensive index. If you are new to Sun ONE Web Server 6.1, begin with Part I, “Server Basics” for an overview of the product. If you are already familiar with this version of Sun ONE Web Server, skim the material in Part I, “Server Basics” before going on to Part II, “Using the Administration Server.”
Once you are familiar with the fundamentals of using the Administration Server, you can refer to Part III, “Configuring, Monitoring, and Performance Tuning,” which includes examples of how to configure and monitor your Sun ONE Web Servers. Part IV, “Managing Virtual Servers and Services” provides information for using programs and configuration styles.
Finally, Appendixes addresses specific reference topics that describe the various topics, including: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), server configuration files, ACL files, internationalization issues, server extensions, and the Sun ONE Web Server user interface reference, which you may want to review. Note that the user interface appendix is available in the online version only.
Part I: Server Basics
This part provides an overview of the Sun ONE Web Server. The following chapters are included:
- Chapter 1, "Introduction to Sun ONE Web Server" provides an overview of Sun ONE Web Server.
- Chapter 2, "Administering Sun ONE Web Servers" describes how to manage your Sun ONE Web Servers with the Administration Server.
Part II: Using the Administration Server
This part provides conceptual and procedural details about using the Administration Server to administer your Sun ONE Web Servers. The following chapters are included:
- Chapter 3, "Managing Users and Groups" describes how to how to use the Administration Server Users and Groups forms to configure your Sun ONE Web Servers.
- Chapter 4, "J2EE-based Security for Web Container and Web Applications" describes how to configure your Sun ONE Web Server security and discusses two security models: ACL-based access control and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)/Servlets-based authentication and authorization.
- Chapter 5, "Setting Administration Preferences" describes how to use the Administration Server Preferences and Global Settings forms to configure your Sun ONE Web Servers.
- Chapter 6, "Using Certificates and Keys"describes how you can use certificates and public keys to enhance security. Note that before reading this chapter you should be familiar with the basic concepts of public-key cryptography and the Secure Sockets layer (SSL) protocol. These concepts include encryption and decryption; keys; digital certificates and signatures; and SSL encryption, ciphers, and the major steps of the SSL handshake.
- Chapter 7, "Managing Server Clusters" describes the concept of clustering servers and explains how you can use them to share configurations among servers.
Part III: Configuring and Monitoring
This part includes examples of how to use the Server Manager to configure and monitor your Sun ONE Web Servers. The following chapters are included:
- Chapter 8, "Configuring Server Preferences" describes how to configure server preferences for your Sun ONE Web Server.
- Chapter 9, "Controlling Access to Your Server" describes how to specify who can access parts of your server.
- Chapter 10, "Using Log Files" describes how to monitor your Sun ONE Web Server using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), by recording and viewing log files, or by using the performance monitoring tools provided with your operating system.
- Chapter 11, "Monitoring Servers" describes how to monitor your Sun ONE Web Server using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).
- Chapter 12, "Configuring Naming and Resources" describes how you can configure Java Naming and Description Interface (JNDI) resources and include database connectivity on your server.
Part IV: Managing Virtual Servers and Services
This part provides information for using the Server Manager to programs and configuration styles. The following chapters are included:
- Chapter 13, "Using Virtual Servers" describes how to set up and administer virtual servers using your Sun ONE Web Server.
- Chapter 14, "Creating and Configuring Virtual Servers" describes how you can create and configure individual virtual servers.
- Chapter 15, "Extending Your Server With Programs" describes how to install Java applets, CGI programs, JavaScript applications, and other plug-ins onto your server.
- Chapter 16, "Content Management" describes how you can configure and manage your server’s content.
- Chapter 17, "Applying Configuration Styles" describes how to use configuration styles with Sun ONE Web Server.
- Chapter 18, "Using Search" describes how to search the contents and attributes of documents on the server. In addition, this chapter describes how to create a customized text search interface that’s tailored to your user community.
- Chapter 19, "Web Publishing with WebDAV" describes how you can configure a virtual server to use the WebDAV protocol that enables web publishing and in-place collaborative web authoring.
Part V: Appendixes
This section includes various appendixes with reference material that you may wish to review. This section includes the following appendixes:
- Appendix A, "Command Line Utilities" provides instructions for using command line utilities in place of the user interface screens.
- Appendix B, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" provides a short introduction to a few HTTP basic concepts.
- Appendix C, "ACL File Syntax" describes the access-control list (ACL) files and their syntax.
- Appendix D, "Support for Internationalization and Localization" describes the internationalized version of the Sun ONE Web Server.
In addition, a glossary is included to define frequently used terms that may be unfamiliar to Sun ONE Web Server administrators.
Using the Sun ONE Web Server DocumentationThe Sun ONE Web Server manuals are available as online files in PDF and HTML formats at:
http://docs.sun.com/db/prod/s1websrv#hic
The following table lists the tasks and concepts described in the Sun ONE Web Server manuals.
Documentation ConventionsThis section describes the types of conventions used throughout this guide:
- Font conventions include:
- The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), file names, pathnames, directory names, and HTML tags.
- Italic type is used for code variables.
- Italic type is also used for book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense.
- Bold type is used as either a paragraph lead-in or to indicate words used in the literal sense.
- Installation root directories are indicated by install_dir in this document.
By default, the location of install_dir on UNIX-based platforms is:
/opt/SUNWwbsvr/
On Windows, it is:
C:\Sun\WebServer6.1
Product SupportIf you have problems with your system, contact customer support using one of the following mechanisms: