This preface describes what is in this Installation Guide, and contains the following sections:

• About This Guide

• What You Should Know

• How This Guide Is Organized

• Documentation Conventions

About This Guide

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This guide describes iPlanet Application Server installation on Windows NT and Solaris, and how to configure and use the components provided with iPlanet Application Server.

What You Should Know

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This guide assumes you are familiar with the following topics:

• Application server concepts

• Internet and World Wide Web

• Configuration concepts

How This Guide Is Organized

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This guide is organized into the following chapters:

Chapter 1, "Installing iPlanet Application Server on NT" describes the various steps to install, upgrade, verify installation, run sample applications, or uninstall on the Windows NT platform. The new ezSetup option is also covered.

Chapter 2, "Installing iPlanet Application Server on Solaris" describes the various steps to install, upgrade, verify installation, run sample applications, or uninstall on the Solaris platform. ezSetup and installation of multiple instances are also covered.

Chapter 3, "Configuring iPlanet Application Server" describes the configuration options offered by the installation program.

Documentation Conventions

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File and directory paths are given in Windows format (with backslashes separating directory names). For Unix versions, the directory paths are the same, except slashes are used instead of backslashes to separate directories.

This guide uses URLs of the form:

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

In these URLs, server is the name of server on which you run your application; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the directory structure on the server; and file is an individual filename. Italics items in URLs are placeholders.

This guide uses the following font conventions:

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 book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense.