About This Guide


This guide explains how to install iPlanet^TM Web Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0 and how to migrate from a previous version of the iPlanet Web Server to this version.

This preface contains the following sections:

• What You Need to Know

• What's in This Guide

• Document Conventions

• Where to Find This Guide Online

• How to Use Online Help

• Where to Find Related Information

What You Need to Know

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The guide assumes that you are a server administrator with a general understanding of the following:

• The Internet and the World Wide Web

• The iPlanet Web Server architecture, as explained in the iPlanet Web Server Administrator's Guide.

What's in This Guide

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The iPlanet Web Server Installation and Migration Guide covers the information you need to install iPlanet Web Server on your system. If you have a previous version of iPlanet Web Server installed, this guide also explains how to migrate your data.

If you want to do this:	See this section:
Find out what you need to do before installing the server, including installing other products required by the server	Before You Install iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition
Get step by step instructions for installing and uninstalling the server on Unix	Installing iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition on Unix
Get step by step instructions for installing and uninstalling the server on NT	Installing iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition on Windows NT
Migrate your data and applications from iPlanet Web Server 4.x.	Migrating Your Web Server
Find information in the guide	Index

Document Conventions

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This guide uses the following conventions:

• When this document refers to iPlanet Web Server, it refers to the Enterprise Edition.

• The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as method names and property names), filenames, path names, directory names, HTML tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.

• The italic font is used in code to represent placeholder parameters that should be replaced with an actual value. It is also used for book titles, emphasis, letters as letters (for example, "Spell it with a T."), and words as words (for example, "The word server is in every product name.").

• A slash (/) is used to separate directories in a path. (Windows NT supports both the slash and the backslash.)

Where to Find This Guide Online

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You can find the iPlanet Web Server Installation Guide online in PDF and HTML formats. To find these files, use this URL:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise.html

The information in this guide is also part of the help system for iPlanet Web Server. See "How to Use Online Help."

How to Use Online Help

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When you are using iPlanet Web Server, you can click Help in any iPlanet Web Server window to open a web browser window showing explanations of all of the window's user interface fields. You can then navigate to other parts of the help document, as well as the entire documentation set. The installation programs do not have online help, but some migration screens do.

Where to Find Related Information

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In addition to this guide, iPlanet Web Server comes with supplementary information for administrators as well as documentation for end users and developers. These documents are available through your online help system, from the DocHome button.

In addition, all documents are available online. Use the following URL to see all the iPlanet Web Server documentation:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise.html

These are the iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition documents that are available:

• Administrator's Guide

• Programmer's Guide

• NSAPI Programmer's Guide

• Programmer's Guide to Servlets

• Release Notes