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Important Notes about Custom Installations for Linux

Before running a custom installation of Chili!Soft ASP for Linux, review the following information:

1.   You use the Administration Console to start and stop the Chili!Soft ASP Server and to change configuration settings. You can access the Administration Console by typing the following URL in your Web browser address bar:

http://[HOSTNAME]:[PORT]

where [HOSTNAME] is the valid DNS name or IP address of the Apache Web Server running the Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console and [PORT] is the port on which the Administration Console is configured to run (5100 by default).

If you did not configure a Web server during installation, you will be prompted to configure one when you first access the Administration Console.

2.   If you chose the default configuration for the Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console, the setup program configured the username as "admin" and the password as "root." To protect the security of your server, it is highly recommended that you change the username and password as soon as possible. For more information, see "Configuring Usernames and Passwords" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP."

3.   The Chili!Soft ASP setup program makes certain changes to the configuration files for the associated Web server. For more information, see "Changes to Netscape Web Server Configuration Files" or "Changes to Apache Web Server Configuration Files" in this chapter, as appropriate.

4.   If you installed Chili!Soft ASP to an Apache Web server that does not support Dynamic Shared Object (DSO), you must manually link the Web server to Chili!Soft ASP and then recompile it, as described in "Configuring a Non-DSO Apache Web Server" in this chapter. If your Apache Web server supports DSO, there are no additional steps to take: Chili!Soft ASP includes pre-built DSO modules that automatically link to your Web server.

5.   To use Chili!Beans, you must enable Java support, as described in "Enabling Java Support" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP." Chili!Beans enables you to access Java objects and classes from an ASP script. For more information about Chili!Beans, see "Chili!Beans Component Reference" in "Chapter 5: Developer's Reference."

6.   When finished installing Chili!Soft ASP 3.6, it is a good idea to use the diagnostic applications to verify that your installation is functioning correctly. (These diagnostic applications will not function unless you have configured a Web server.) You can access the diagnostics from the following URL:

http://[HOSTNAME]/caspsamp/diagnostics.htm

where [HOSTNAME] is the hostname of the Web server configured to run with Chili!Soft ASP.

7.   Important summary information about the installation is located in the following file:

[C-ASP_INSTALL_DIR]/logs/component_log

where [C-ASP_INSTALL_DIR] is the directory in which you installed Chili!Soft ASP (/opt/casp by default).

It is a good idea to print this information for future reference.

Note

On Chili!Soft ASP 3.6 for Linux, you need to access your Web server by using the "server address" specified in the Zeus Administration Console, rather than the address specified in install_summary.

8.   If you chose this option, the setup program installed the IBM DB2 7.01 Client Application Enabler (CAE) on your computer in the following location:

/usr/lpp/db2_07_01

Before you can connect to the DB2 database, you must first configure a DSN, as described in "Configuring Data Source Names (DSNs)" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP." Note that you must use the cataloged name of the database for the DSN name. Chili!Soft ASP automatically sets the correct database parameters and associates them with the cataloged name of the database. In addition to configuring a DSN for DB2, you must load the DB2 profile as described in "Loading DB2 Profiles" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP."

See also:

Installing a Custom Configuration of Chili!Soft ASP 3.6 for Linux in this chapter

Uninstalling Chili!Soft ASP in this chapter

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