The Web Gateway

The web gateway provides an interface to an LDAP directory from any web browser. You can use this interface to browse the directory, to search for and read entries, and to modify some directory information. This is useful for checking information in the directory.

This section explains how to configure the web gateway to adapt it to the needs of your users, in particular to display new attributes or corporate profiles that you have defined.

Information on using the web gateway is provided in Sun Directory Services 3.1 User's Guide.

Configuring the Web Gateway

The gateway daemon, dswebd, requires the dsservd daemon to be running on the same machine. To enable users to browse the directory from any web browser, you must make sure that the dsservd and dswebd daemons are running. You can check their status in the Status section of the Admin Console. The LDAP service and the Web gateway service must be shown as Running. If they are not, use the Start button to start them.

You can change the default HTTP port (1760) used by the web gateway from the Admin Console. To do so, change the HTTP port number in the Web gateway section under Services.

You can modify the behavior of the web gateway and the way it displays information by editing the following configuration files:

• dswebfilter.conf

  Controls how the gateway makes a search request to the directory. See the dswebfilter.conf(4) man page for details.

• dswebfriendly.conf

  Contains user-friendly equivalents of certain attribute values that might be used in the directory. By default, it contains mappings between the ISO country codes and the names of countries.

• dsweb.help

  Contains help text for the user interface to the web gateway. You can edit this file and change the help text to reflect any changes you make to the user interface.

• dsweb.helpattr

  Contains an explanation of the directory attributes visible through the user interface to the web gateway.

• dsweb.messages

  Contains the messages and screen text used in the user interface to the web gateway. You can customize the user interface by changing this file.

• dswebtmpl.conf

  Contains templates that control how information retrieved from the directory is displayed. If you have modified the schema, especially if you have added object classes and attributes, you must modify this file to be able to display entries that use the new object classes and attributes. See the dswebtmpl.conf(4) man page for details.