Userdb; Virtual Server Selection For Request Processing - Netscape ENTERPRISE SERVER 6.0 - NSAPI PROGRAMMER GUIDE Manual

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USERDB

Defines the user database used by the virtual server.
See "User Database Selection," on page 296 for more information about how a user
database is selected for a given virtual server.
Subelements: none
Attributes:
id
database
basedn
certmaps

Virtual Server Selection for Request Processing

Before the server can process a request, it must accept the request via a listen
socket, then direct the request to the correct connection group and virtual server.
This section discusses how the virtual server is determined.
After the virtual server is determined, the server executes the
virtual server class to which the virtual server belongs. For details about how the
server decides which directives to execute in
obj.conf," on page 32.
A connection group is first selected as follows:
If the listen socket is configured to listen on a particular IP address, it can
contain only one connection group, and that group is selected.
If the listen socket is configured to listen on
client connected is matched to the
contained by that listen socket. If no
connection group with
The user database name in the virtual server's ACL file. A
user database name cannot begin with a number.
The user database name in the dbswitch.conf file.
(optional) Overrides the base DN lookup in the
dbswitch.conf file. However, the basedn value is still
relative to the base DN value from the dbswitch.conf
entry.
(optional) Specifies which certificate to LDAP entry mappings
(defined in certmap.conf) to use. If not present, all
mappings are used. All lookups based on mappings in
certmap.conf are relative to the final base DN of the VS.
obj.conf
matchingip
matchingip
matchingip=default
Chapter 8
Virtual Server Selection for Request Processing
obj.conf
, see "Flow of Control in
, the IP address to which the
any
attribute of a connection group
attribute matches, the
is selected.
Virtual Server Configuration Files
file for the
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