Installation guide

Installing on Unix Platforms
Chapter 2 Installing iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition on Unix 31
To run setup, follow these steps:
1. If you are not in the directory already, change to the directory where you unpacked the
file.
2. Type ./setup to start the server installation.
A welcome screen appears.
3. Press Enter to continue with the installation.
4. Choose whether you accept the software license agreement by entering Yes to accept,
or No to decline. If you have not yet read the license agreement, cancel out of the
installation and read the file
LICENSE.txt that is in the same directory as the setup
program
5. Choose Express and press Enter.
6. Type a server root directory or accept the default (/usr/iplanet/servers).
This directory is where the server files and directory structure will be installed.
root
must have write access to this directory.
7. Choose all components.
Press Enter.
8. Enter the Unix user and group names to use when running the default instance of
iPlanet Web Server.
For Express installation, this user must be
root. The group must be the group to which
root belongs.
9. Enter the Unix user name to use when running the Administration Server.
In most cases, this user is
root.
10. Enter the Administration Server user name and password to use for authentication. You
are asked to enter your password twice.
If you are using a iPlanet Directory Server, you must make sure that the Administration
Server user exists in the Directory Server, and that it has access permissions to the
Directory Server to perform user and group management tasks.
11. After the installation program extracts and installs the iPlanet Web Server components,
press Enter.