Other Technical Requirements; Creating A Dns Alias For The Server - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - INSTALLATION AND MIGRATION GUIDE Installation And Migration Manual

Other Technical Requirements

• 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). See the Netscape Enterprise Server Release Notes for the required
version level. 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 Enterprise
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 Windows 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 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.
For example, you might call the server my_server.my_company.
alias like
always use the www alias instead of my_server.
NOTE
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.my_company.
www com
DNS names should start with a letter, not a number.
. So the URLs to documents on your server would
and then use an
com