Installation guide

Known Problems and Solutions
44 iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition Release Notes • June 20, 2001
Now, if you set up a drive mapping for X:, you should be able to tell your iPlanet web server to use
its primary document directory on X:\, for example.
This may not work in all situations. If it doesn’t, try upgrading to the latest copy of the client
networking software for your computer. In particular, we have seen this fail if you’re using the
Microsoft networking software to connect to a Novell Netware file server; installing Novell
Netware client software instead seems to fix the problem. Using drives mounted by Windows
Networking and PC-NFS seems to work fine.
As noted above, using network volumes isn’t directly supported by the iPlanet web server, and this
may not work reliably.
Problem 338917. Cannot get environment variables configured for cmd scripts
The obj.conf file allows the configuration of environment variables for CGIs that run from the
URL or via Parsed HTML. However, server-side includes for commands do not receive these
environment variables.
Workaround
Add addCgiInitVars="yes" to your obj.conf file to get these variables subsequently passed to
shtml-init. For example, if you add the following code to your obj.conf file:
Init fn="init-cgi" LateInit="yes" var1="xy" var2="ab"
Init fn="shtml_init" addCgiInitVars="yes"
Then any command executed from shtml via the use of the cmd directive will see var1="xy" and
var2="ab" in its environment.
Problem 385142. Security Tab Cannot Be Delegated
You cannot delegate the Security tab. Only the primary administrator can change the security
settings.
Problem 381644. Administration Server UI cannot handle variable font sizes
The Administration Server UI tabbed header hard-codes the font to be a particular size (roughly
12-18 points on various browsers). If the font is too small or too large, elements of the UI do not
always expand or shrink in proportion. If the font is too large, the right arrow that displays the right
most tabs may not be visible.
Problem 382458 (Unix only). Database Libraries Need to Be Set in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
On Linux, to connect to any database using iPlanet Web Server 4.1, you must point the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the client library directory. For example (the
following must be all on one line):
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${DB2PATH}/lib:${ORACLE_HOME}/lib:${INFORMIXDIR}/lib:
${INFORMIXDIR}/lib/esql:${SYBASE}/lib