How This Guide Is Organized

This guide has the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Basics of Server Operation

  Introduces the major configuration files that control the Sun Java System Web Server and describes how to activate and edit them.

• Chapter 2, Server Configuration Elements in server.xml

  Describes the server.xml file, which controls most aspects of server operation.

• Chapter 3, Syntax and Use of magnus.conf

  Describes the directives you can set in the magnus.conf file to configure the Sun Java System Web Server during initialization.

• Chapter 4, Predefined SAFs in obj.conf

  describes the predefined SAFs used in the obj.conf file.

• Chapter 5, MIME Types

  Describes the MIME types file, which maps file extensions to file types.

• Chapter 6, Other Server Configuration Files

  Lists other important configuration files and provides a quick reference of their contents.

• Appendix A, Configuration Changes Between iPlanet Web Server 4.1 and Sun Java System Web Server 6.1

  Describes the changes in configuration files between the 4.x and 6.1 versions of Sun Java System Web Server.

• Appendix B, Configuration Changes Between iPlanet Web Server 6.0 and Sun Java System Web Server 6.1

  Describes the changes in configuration files between the 6.0 and 6.1 versions of Sun Java System Web Server.

• Appendix C, Time Formats

  Describes the format strings used for dates and times in the server log.

• Appendix D, Alphabetical List of Server Configuration Elements

  Provides an alphabetical list for easy lookup of elements in server.xml and directives in magnus.conf.

• Appendix E, Alphabetical List of Predefined SAFs

  Provides an alphabetical list for easy lookup of directives in obj.conf.