Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (July 2001)

166 Chapter9

Apache for MPE/iX

Major Components

C:\>ping yourserver.com

Pinging yourserver.com [15.99.200.390] with 32 bytes of data

Reply from 15.99.200.390: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=199

You will also want a domain name. This is a unique identiﬁer such as

“yourserver.abc.com” which is used (instead of the IP address) to

direct requests from a browser to a web server. Request a domain name

from the administrator of the Domain Name Server (DNS) on your

network.

Conﬁgure the web server with one or more Domain Name Servers

(DNS). These DNS servers will resolve the system’s name into its IP

address. To conﬁgure, edit RESLVCNF.NET.SYS or edit

/etc/resolv.conf (which links to RESLVCNF.NET.SYS):

• Add one or more nameserver lines. Each line should contain the IP

address of a valid DNS.

• Add one domain line that contains the DNS domain name for the

domain to which your web server belongs. This domain name should

not include the web server’s hostname (:NMMGR node name).

• The DNS server listed on each nameserver line must contain both a

valid “A” record and “PTR” record. The content of these records must

agree with the actual hostname of the web server and the actual

domain name in RESLVCNF.NET.SYS.

For example, if the fully qualiﬁed domain name of the web server is

yourserver.abc.com:

shell/iX> uname -n

YOURSERVER

shell/iX > cat /etc/resolv.conf

#domain <domain>

#nameserver <primary server's IP address>

#nameserver <secondary server's IP address>

domain abc.com

nameserver 25.33.100.134

nameserver 25.33.125.172