About This Guide

This guide describes how to configure and administer Sun^™ Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Web Server 6.1. It is intended for information technology administrators in the corporate enterprise who want to extend client-server applications to a broader audience through the World Wide Web.

This preface includes the following sections:

What’s In This Guide?
How This Guide Is Organized
Using the Sun ONE Web Server Documentation
Documentation Conventions
Product Support

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What’s In This Guide?

This guide explains how to configure and administer the Sun ONE Web Server. After configuring your server, use this guide to help maintain your server.

After you install the server, this guide is available in HTML format at /manual/https/ag in your server root directory. By default, the server root directory is C:\Sun\WebServer6.1\ or /opt/SunWwbsvr.

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How This Guide Is Organized

This guide is divided into five parts, plus a glossary, and a comprehensive index. If you are new to Sun ONE Web Server 6.1, begin with Part I, “Server Basics” for an overview of the product. If you are already familiar with this version of Sun ONE Web Server, skim the material in Part I, “Server Basics” before going on to Part II, “Using the Administration Server.”

Once you are familiar with the fundamentals of using the Administration Server, you can refer to Part III, “Configuring, Monitoring, and Performance Tuning,” which includes examples of how to configure and monitor your Sun ONE Web Servers. Part IV, “Managing Virtual Servers and Services” provides information for using programs and configuration styles.

Finally, Appendixes addresses specific reference topics that describe the various topics, including: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), server configuration files, ACL files, internationalization issues, server extensions, and the Sun ONE Web Server user interface reference, which you may want to review. Note that the user interface appendix is available in the online version only.

Part I: Server Basics

This part provides an overview of the Sun ONE Web Server. The following chapters are included:

Chapter 1, "Introduction to Sun ONE Web Server" provides an overview of Sun ONE Web Server.
Chapter 2, "Administering Sun ONE Web Servers" describes how to manage your Sun ONE Web Servers with the Administration Server.

Part II: Using the Administration Server

This part provides conceptual and procedural details about using the Administration Server to administer your Sun ONE Web Servers. The following chapters are included:

Chapter 5, "Setting Administration Preferences" describes how to use the Administration Server Preferences and Global Settings forms to configure your Sun ONE Web Servers.
Chapter 3, "Managing Users and Groups" describes how to how to use the Administration Server Users and Groups forms to configure your Sun ONE Web Servers.
Chapter 4, "J2EE-based Security for Web Container and Web Applications" describes how to configure your Sun ONE Web Server security and discusses two security models: ACL-based access control and Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™)/Servlets-based authentication and authorization.
Chapter 6, "Using Certificates and Keys"describes how you can use certificates and public keys to enhance security. Note that before reading this chapter you should be familiar with the basic concepts of public-key cryptography and the Secure Sockets layer (SSL) protocol. These concepts include encryption and decryption; keys; digital certificates and signatures; and SSL encryption, ciphers, and the major steps of the SSL handshake.
Chapter 7, "Managing Server Clusters" describes the concept of clustering servers and explains how you can use them to share configurations among servers.

Part III: Configuring and Monitoring

This part includes examples of how to use the Server Manager to configure and monitor your Sun ONE Web Servers. The following chapters are included:

Chapter 8, "Configuring Server Preferences" describes how to configure server preferences for your Sun ONE Web Server.
Chapter 9, "Controlling Access to Your Server" describes how to specify who can access parts of your server.
Chapter 10, "Using Log Files" describes how to monitor your Sun ONE Web Server using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), by recording and viewing log files, or by using the performance monitoring tools provided with your operating system.
Chapter 11, "Monitoring Servers" describes how to monitor your Sun ONE Web Server using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).
Chapter 12, "Configuring Naming and Resources" describes how you can configure Java Naming and Description Interface (JNDI) resources and include database connectivity on your server.

Part IV: Managing Virtual Servers and Services

This part provides information for using the Server Manager to programs and configuration styles. The following chapters are included:

Chapter 13, "Using Virtual Servers" describes how to set up and administer virtual servers using your Sun ONE Web Server.
Chapter 14, "Creating and Configuring Virtual Servers" describes how you can create and configure individual virtual servers.
Chapter 15, "Extending Your Server With Programs" describes how to install Java applets, CGI programs, JavaScript applications, and other plug-ins onto your server.
Chapter 16, "Content Management" describes how you can configure and manage your server’s content.
Chapter 17, "Applying Configuration Styles" describes how to use configuration styles with Sun ONE Web Server.
Chapter 18, "Using Search" describes how to search the contents and attributes of documents on the server. In addition, this chapter describes how to create a customized text search interface that’s tailored to your user community.
Chapter 19, "Web Publishing with WebDAV" describes how you can configure a virtual server to use the WebDAV protocol that enables web publishing and in-place collaborative web authoring.

Part V: Appendixes

This section includes various appendixes with reference material that you may wish to review. This section includes the following appendixes:

Appendix A, "Command Line Utilities" provides instructions for using command line utilities in place of the user interface screens.
Appendix B, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" provides a short introduction to a few HTTP basic concepts.
Appendix C, "ACL File Syntax" describes the access-control list (ACL) files and their syntax.
Appendix D, "Support for Internationalization and Localization" describes the internationalized version of the Sun ONE Web Server.

In addition, a glossary is included to define frequently used terms that may be unfamiliar to Sun ONE Web Server administrators.

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Using the Sun ONE Web Server Documentation

The Sun ONE Web Server manuals are available as online files in PDF and HTML formats at:

http://docs.sun.com/prod/sunone

The following table lists the tasks and concepts described in the Sun ONE Web Server manuals.

Table 1  Sun ONE Web Server Documentation Roadmap

For Information About	See the Following
Late-breaking information about the software and documentation	Release Notes
Getting started with Sun ONE Web Server, including hands-on exercises that introduce server basics and features (recommended for first-time users)	Getting Started Guide
Performing installation and migration tasks: Installing Sun ONE Web Server and its various components, supported platforms, and environments Migrating from Sun ONE Web Server 4.1 or 6.0 to Sun ONE Web Server 6.1	Installation and Migration Guide
Performing the following administration tasks: Using the Administration and command-line interfaces Configuring server preferences Using server instances Monitoring and logging server activity Using certificates and public key cryptography to secure the server Configuring access control to secure the server Using Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™ platform) security features Deploying applications Managing virtual servers Defining server workload and sizing the system to meet performance needs Searching the contents and attributes of server documents, and creating a text search interface Configuring the server for content compression Configuring the server for web publishing and content authoring using WebDAV	Administrator’s Guide
Using programming technologies and APIs to do the following: Extend and modify Sun ONE Web Server Dynamically generate content in response to client requests Modify the content of the server	Programmer’s Guide
Creating custom Netscape Server Application Programmer’s Interface (NSAPI) plugins	NSAPI Programmer’s Guide
Implementing servlets and JavaServer Pages™ (JSP™) technology in Sun ONE Web Server	Programmer’s Guide to Web Applications
Editing configuration files	Administrator’s Configuration File Reference Guide
Tuning Sun ONE Web Server to optimize performance	Performance Tuning, Sizing, and Scaling Guide

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Documentation Conventions

This section describes the types of conventions used throughout this guide:

File and directory paths are given in UNIX® format (with forward slashes separating directory names). For Windows versions, the directory paths are the same, except that backslashes are used to separate directories.
URLs are given in the format:

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

In these URLs, server is the server name where applications are run; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the server's directory structure; and file is an individual filename. Italic items in URLs are placeholders.

Font conventions include:
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 code variables.
Italic type is also used for book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense.
Bold type is used as either a paragraph lead-in or to indicate words used in the literal sense.
Installation root directories are indicated by install_dir in this document.

By default, the location of install_dir on UNIX-based platforms is:

/opt/SUNWwbsvr/

On Windows, it is:

C:\Sun\WebServer6.1

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Product Support

If you have problems with your system, contact customer support using one of the following mechanisms:

The online support web site at:

http://www.sun.com/supportraining/

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