Installation guide

NOTE

Directory Server version 8.0 conforms to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standards.

This means that the directories and files are in different locations than previous

versions. For more information on FHS, see the http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

homepage. For a table showing the new file locations, see Section 1, “Directory

Server File Locations”.

3. Express Setup

Use express installation if you are installing Directory Server for an evaluation or trial. Because

express installation does not offer the choice of selecting the Directory Server server port

number or the directory suffix, among other settings, Red Hat recommends not using it for

production deployments.

NOTE

The setup program gets the host information from the /etc/resolv.conf file. If

there are aliases in the /etc/hosts file, such as ldap.example.com, that do not

match the /etc/resolv.conf settings, the setup program cannot use the default

hostname option, and setup will fail.

WARNING

If Directory Server is already installed on your machine, it is extremely important

that you perform a migration, not a fresh installation. Migration is described in

Chapter 8, Migrating from Previous Versions.

1. After the Directory Server packages are installed as described in Section 2, “Installing the

Directory Server Packages”, then launch the setup-ds-admin.pl script.

# /opt/dirsrv/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl

NOTE

Run the setup-ds-admin.pl script as root.

Express Setup