Using Variables; Dynamic Reconfiguration - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

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Click Manage Virtual Servers.
2.
Choose a virtual server and click Manage.
3.
You can also click the virtual server name in the tree view of the server.
You can use a command line utility,
server tasks as you can perform using the user interface. For more information on
the command line utility
Administration)," on page 332.

Using Variables

You can use variables to give virtual-server specific values for a class without
having to define each value individually. A variable is defined in the
You can define your own variables, but the user interface will not recognize them.
The variable that is most useful in the user interface is the variable
represents the ID of the virtual server. Whenever you enter this variable, the server
substitutes the value for the individual virtual server ID.
There are a few other variables, such as
server's access log) and
that you may occasionally see, but
a field.
For more information on variables, see the Netscape Enterprise Server Programmer's
Guide.

Dynamic Reconfiguration

Dynamic reconfiguration allows you to make configuration changes to a live
Enterprise Server without having to stop and restart the Enterprise Server for the
changes to take effect. You can dynamically change all configuration settings and
attributes in
server.xml
any changes that you make within the virtual server user interface can by applied
without restarting the server. You can dynamically reconfigure your server after
changes using the reconfiguration script or the user interface.
On UNIX platforms the dynamic reconfiguration script is a shell script named
located in each instance's directory. There are no command line
reconfig
arguments to this script. You can run the reconfiguration script by simply typing
from the server instance's directory.
reconfig
HttpServerAdmin
, see "HttpServerAdmin (Virtual Server
HttpServerAdmin
$accesslog
(the path to each virtual server's document root),
$docroot
is the only one you should need to enter into
$id
and its associated files without restarting the server. So
Using the Virtual Server User Interface
, to perform the same virtual
obj.conf
, which
$id
(the path to each virtual
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Using Virtual Servers
file.
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