HP Panter 2Tier manual Web Application Server Post-Installation for Unix, Preliminary Steps

Web Application Server: Post-Installation for UNIX

Preliminary

Steps

If you plan to install a Prolifics web application server on UNIX, you must create a user account called proweb.

To prepare your UNIX system for installing a web application server:

1.Add a user called proweb (this name assignment is required) to the /etc/ passwd file on the machine on which your HTTP server is running. This creates a user account for the web application server.

2.Create a web home directory for the web application server user account. For example: /home/proweb.

3.Set the permissions of proweb so that both the Prolifics web application server and the HTTP server can access the files in the web home directory. Follow these steps:

•Determine the name of the HTTP server user account (for example, webmast).

•Create a permission group consisting of the web user account (proweb) and the HTTP server user account (webmast).

•Give the group permission to access files in the web home directory

(/home/proweb). You may need to assign the same permissions to all of the parent directories as well.

4.In your web home directory, create an ini subdirectory. Make sure that it has read-write permissions for everyone. Your subdirectory might look like this:

/home/proweb/ini

Web Application Server: Post-Installation for UNIX

For information about installing and setting up Prolifics software, refer to page 30.

After successfully installing Prolifics software and running the setup script, there are several post-installation steps required to start using Prolifics. This section discusses or provides references to licensing, building Prolifics executables, setting up the environment for each of the Prolifics components installed, and post-instal- lation issues and troubleshooting tips.

If you install the web application server on a separate machine from Prolifics client software, you must also install the database drivers on that machine.

Post-Installation Overview

As part of post-installation, you need to perform the following general steps. The details of the steps are provided in the pages that follow.

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