Installation guide

1 MATLAB on the Web
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Installation
Availability
The MATLAB Web Server is available on UNIX (Solaris) workstations and
IBM PC compatible computers running Microsoft Windows NT or Linux.
Installation Procedure
To install the MATLAB Web Server, follow the normal MATLAB installation
procedure for your platform, as documented in the MATLAB Installation Guide
for PC and the MATLAB Installation Guide for UNIX. The MATLAB Web
Server appears as one of the installation choices you can select as you proceed
through the installation screens.
General Post-Installation Procedures
After installing MATLAB and the MATLAB Web Server, you must perform a
number of steps that regulate communication between MATLAB and your Web
browser.
Note Throughout this document the notation <matlab> represents the
MATLAB root directory, the directory where MATLAB is installed on your
system. For notational consistency in UNIX command syntax, the notation
$MATLAB is used to represent the MATLAB root directory.
Note in particular:
1 To get the demonstration programs discussed in this chapter to work, you
need to create a
matweb.conf file in the
<matlab>/toolbox/webserver/wsdemos directory. The Readme file shows
the format for
matweb.conf. Replace the notation <matlab> with the name
of the root directory where you installed MATLAB. Use the
matlabroot
command to determine this directory. Also, replace
matlabserver_host_name with the TCP/IP hostname for your machine.
2 The installation procedure creates the file matlabserver.conf in the
<matlab>/webserver directory. The file contains the notation