Preface


This describes the contents of the iPlanet Application Server Installation Guide. It contains the following sections:

• About This Book

• What You Should Know

• How This Book is Organized

• Documentation Conventions

About This Book

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This Installation Guide tells you about the the various kinds of installation procedures for the iPlanet Application Server and how to do them.

This manual is intended for system administrators, network administrators, evaluators, application server administrators, web developers, and software developers who want to install iPlanet Application Server.

What You Should Know

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Before you begin, you should already be familiar with the following topics:

• Application Servers

• Client/Server programming model

• Internet and World Wide Web

• Windows NT or Solaris operating systems

• Java programming and J2EE

How This Book is Organized

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This book is organized as follows:

Chapter 1 "Getting Started," gives and overview of iPlanet Application Server features, iPlanet Application Server components, installation options, and system requirements for installation.

Chapter 2 "Easy iPlanet Application Server Installations," contains the quick installation procedures for both the Windows NT and the Solaris platform, including the ezSetup installation option.

Chapter 3 "Advanced Installations for Solaris," describes the Custom Installation options for the Solaris platform. This installation option is recommended only for experienced users.

Chapter 4 "Advanced Installations for Windows NT," describes the Custom Installation option for the Windows NT platform. This installation option is recommended only for experienced users.

Appendix A "Configuring iPlanet Application Server," describes configuration options in more detail.

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, where:

• server is the name of the server where you are running the application.

• domain is your internet domain name.

• path is the directory structure on the server.

• file is an individual filename.

The following table shows the typographic conventions used throughout iPlanet documentation.

Table 1    Typographic Conventions 

Typeface	Meaning	Examples
Monospaced	The names of files, directories, sample code, and code listings; and HTML tags	Open Hello.html file. <HEAD1> creates a top level heading.
Italics	Book titles, variables, other code placeholders, words to be emphasized, and words used in the literal sense	See Chapter 8 of the Installation Guide. Enter your UserID. Enter Login in the Name field.
Bold	First appearance of a glossary term in the text	Templates are page outlines.