Documentation Conventions

This section describes the types of conventions used throughout this guide:

• File and directory paths are given in UNIX® format (with forward slashes separating directory names). For Windows versions, the directory paths are the same, except that backslashes are used to separate directories.

• URLs are given in the format:

  http://server.domain/path/file.html

  In these URLs, server is the server name where applications are run; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the server's directory structure; and file is an individual filename. Italic items in URLs are placeholders.

• 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