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About This Guide
This guide explains how to install iPlanetTM Web Server, FastTrack Edition.This preface contains the following sections:
What You Need to Know
What You Need to Know
The guide assumes that you are a server administrator with a general understanding of the following:
The Internet and the World Wide Web
The iPlanet Web Server architecture, as explained in the iPlanet Web Server Administrator's Guide.
What's in This Guide
The iPlanet Web Server Installation Guide covers the information you need to install iPlanet Web Server on your system.
Find out what you need to do before installing the server, including installing other products required by the server
Chapter 1 "Before You Install iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition"
Get step by step instructions for installing and uninstalling the server on Unix
Chapter 2 "Installing iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition on Unix"
Get step by step instructions for installing and uninstalling the server on NT
Chapter 3 "Installing iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition on Windows NT"
Get step by step instructions for installing and uninstalling the server on Linux
Chapter 4 "Installing iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition on Linux"
Document Conventions
This guide uses the following conventions:
When this document refers to iPlanet Web Server, it refers to the FastTrack Edition.
The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as method names and property names), filenames, path names, directory names, HTML tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.
The monospace italic font is used in code to represent placeholder parameters that should be replaced with an actual value.
Standard Italic type is used for book titles, emphasis, letters as letters (for example, "Spell it with a T."), and words as words (for example, "The word server is in every product name.").
Brackets ([]) are used to enclose parameters that are optional.
A slash (/) is used to separate directories in a path. (Windows NT supports both the slash and the backslash.)
Where to Find This Guide Online
You can find the iPlanet Web Server Installation Guide online in PDF and HTML formats. To find these files, use this URL:http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise.html
The information in this guide is also part of the help system for iPlanet Web Server. See "How to Use Online Help."
How to Use Online Help
When you are using iPlanet Web Server, you can click Help in any iPlanet Web Server window to open a web browser window showing explanations of all of the window's user interface fields. You can then navigate to other parts of the help document, as well as the entire documentation set. The installation programs do not have online help, but some migration screens do.To move to the top of whatever major part of online help you're in and gain access to navigational buttons and to a Contents, Index, and DocHome list of resources, click the arrow button to the left of a heading. (If you don't see an arrow button, scroll until you do.)
Where to Find Related Information
In addition to this guide, iPlanet Web Server comes with supplementary information for administrators as well as documentation for end users and developers. These documents are available through your online help system, from the Bookshelf button.In addition, all documents are available online. Use the following URL to see all the iPlanet Web Server documentation:
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise.html
These are the iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition documents that are available:
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Last Updated July 13, 2000