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Accessing the Administration Console

The Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console enables you to configure and manage a Chili!Soft ASP Server from a Web browser, either locally or remotely. The Administration Console also enables you to start and stop the Web server that is configured to run with Chili!Soft ASP.

The Administration Console is hosted by the Administration Web site, which is installed on the computer running the ASP Server. The Administration Web site consists of its own Apache Web Server and its own ASP Server. By default, the Administration Web site is configured to start when you start the computer running Chili!Soft ASP.

Note

If you did not configure a Web server to run with Chili!Soft ASP during installation, you will be prompted to configure one the first time you open the Administration Console. A Web server is configured automatically during installation on Cobalt platforms.

To access the Administration Console from any platform, use the following procedure.

Note

On Cobalt platforms, you can also access the Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console from the Cobalt Administration Console.

To access the Administration Console

1.   In your browser address bar, enter the following URL:

http://[HOSTNAME]:[PORT]

where [HOSTNAME] is the hostname of your Web server and [PORT] is the port on which the Administration Console is running (5100 by default—for more information, see the note below).

For example, if your [HOSTNAME] is www.mysite.com and the Administration Console is installed to port 5100, you would access the Administration Console at:

http:// www.mysite.com:5100/

2.   When prompted, enter the username and password that were specified during installation. On Cobalt platforms the setup programs sets the username to "admin" and the password to "root." You should change these from the defaults as soon as possible. You can change the username and password by following the instructions in "Configuring Usernames and Passwords" in this chapter.)

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The Administration Console opens, displaying the Server Management page.

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From this page, you can access the configuration settings for Chili!Soft ASP, view information about your installation, and start and stop the associated Web server.

Note

In order to access the Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console by using a URL, you must specify its port number in the URL. The default port number is 5100. However, it might be a different number if 5100 was already in use when you installed Chili!Soft ASP, or if you specified a different port number for the Administration Web site during installation. If you are unsure of the correct port number, you can find this information in the Chili!Soft ASP installation summary file. This file is named install_summary on AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX and component_log on Linux and Cobalt RaQ3.

For custom installations of Chili!Soft ASP, you can find the installation summary file in the following location:

/[C-ASP_INSTALL_DIR]/logs/

where [C-ASP_INSTALL_DIR] is the directory in which you installed Chili!Soft ASP.

For bundle installations of Chili!Soft ASP, you can find the installation summary file in the following location:

/usr/local/chilisoft/casp/logs/

On Cobalt platforms, you can find the installation summary file in the following location:

/home/chiliasp/logs/

The entry reads as follows:

Administration console installed:

URL: http://[WEB_SERVER_HOSTNAME]:[PORT_NUMBER]

Port: [PORT_NUMBER]

See also:

Using the Administration Console in this chapter

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