Installation guide

Other Technical Requirements
16 iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition Installation and Migration Guide • May 2001
Windows NT User Accounts for the Server
You should create a Windows NT user account for your iPlanet Web Server. It should have
restricted access to your system resources and run under a nonprivileged system user
account (one that has a limited set of system permissions to your system). When the server
starts, it runs with this user account. Any server extension modules the server uses are
created with this user account as the owner.
During installation, the server uses the
LocalSystem account, not the user account you
created. Once you start and run the server, you should use the user account you created. You
can change the user account for the server after the installation process. You can configure
that user account so that it has permissions to get files on another computer, so that your
server can serve files that are mounted from another computer.
In addition, the user account you create for the server should belong to a group that contains
the server users for all iPlanet servers so that multiple servers can have access to shared
files.
Choosing Unique Port Numbers
You need multiple port numbers: one for the Administration Server and one for each
instance of iPlanet Web Server. The Administration Server is a special instance of the
iPlanet Web Server that you use to manage your iPlanet Web Server. This Administration
Server is not the same as the Netscape Administration Server shipped with Netscape
Console.
The standard web server port number is 80 and the standard SSL-enabled web server port
number is 443, but you can install iPlanet Web Server to use any port. If you use a port
other than the default port (port 80), the URL used to gain access to your home page
changes. For example, if your computer is called
www.siroe.com and you choose port
9753, your server’s URL will be
http://www.siroe.com:9753/.
You should choose a random number for the Administration Server to make it harder for
anyone to breach your server. When you configure your server, you use the Administration
Server’s port number. For example, for server
mozilla.com, the server’s URL could be
http://www.mozilla.com:2634/
.
NOTE It’s strongly recommended that you use a dedicated account for the server.