Installation guide

Other Technical Requirements
14 iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition Installation and Migration Guide • May 2001
• If you are using Internet Explorer, you need to set your browser to check for a new
version of a page every time you access it. To configure this setting, from the View
menu, choose Internet Options. On the General tab, in the Temporary Internet Files
section, click Settings. Click the radio button to check for newer versions of stored
pages every visit to the page.
• Java and cookies enabled in your browser.
• If you intend to use hostnames during the iPlanet Web Server installation, DNS
properly configured with an entry for your server in a DNS server.
• A static IP address on your machine.
• A Java Development Kit (JDK), also known as a Java 2 Software Development Kit
(SDK) installed on your system if you plan to use uncompiled Java Server Pages
(JSPs). iPlanet Web Server for Windows NT requires JDK 1.2.2. For more
information, see “Installing a Java Developer’s Kit,” on page 21.
Other Technical Requirements
Once you have the proper hardware and software necessary to install iPlanet Web Server,
you should make sure that you meet the following requirements:
• You know the host name and IP address of your server computer.
• Your server has a DNS alias. For information on creating a DNS alias for your server,
see “Creating a DNS Alias for the Server” on page 14.
• Your server has a user account on Unix, Linux, or NT. See “Unix and Linux User
Accounts for the Server,” on page 15 or “Windows NT User Accounts for the Server,”
on page 16 for more information.
• You have two port numbers - one for the Administration Server and the other for the
first iPlanet Web Server server instance. For information on choosing port numbers for
your server, see “Choosing Unique Port Numbers” on page 16.
Creating a DNS Alias for the Server
If your server will run on one machine among many in a network, you or your system
administrator should set up a DNS CNAME record or an alias that points to the actual
server machine. Later, you can change the actual hostname or IP address of the server
machine without having to change all URLs that point to the server machine.