Auto-install a new web server instance

Question

Hi, i'm attempting to install a Sun ONE Web Server on my workstation as part of a tutorial for Sun Identity and Acess Management Servers.
Within the tutorial it is stated that this web server is completely seperate from the web server within the Identity Server, and simply involves running an auto-install script called "install-webserver.sh".
Each time i attempt to run this script I am recieving a "bad interpreter: Permission denied" error message.
The line !/bin/sh is at the top of my file and yet this error is still occuring. The file was ftp'd from my windows NT directory across to my Unix directory "/export/home/opt/SUNWam/bin", and it is in this directory that I am attempting to run this scrpt.
So, does this sound in any way familiar to anyone?? I can provide you with the script if necessary.
Kind regards,
Stephen

Answer 1

6.1 unfortunately does not provide a way to create instances through command line tool. With 7.0 (soon to be released as Beta in the coming weeks) will have a full fledged command line tool for all server administration tasks
meanwhile, as a temporary work around one could do the following within a shell or perl script.
[ this approach is totally not supported by Sun. You are on your own ]
1. cd INSTALL_ROOT
2. copy https-HOSTNAME to https-test (/bin/cp -Rf https-HOSTNAME https-TEST) - assuming TEST is the new instance name that you want to create.
3. use a script to edit the following files and replace 'https-HOSTNAME' to https-TEST in all occurrences.
list of files to change:
start , stop , reconfig , restart , rotate
config/magnus.conf
config/server.xml
4. finally, you can use 'HttpServerAdmin' to change the listener port, security settings etc
./bin/https/bin/HttpServerAdmin -h
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-0130/agcmdln.html
for eg ( i would do something like this )
(to create instance https-TEST from default server instance, assuming you do not have special ACL file configured in the default instance, I would do something like )
use a perl script to copy https-HOSTNAME to https-TEST
(/bin/cp -Rf https-HOSTNAME https-TEST)
/bin/cp httpacl/generated.http-HOSTNAME.acl httpacl/generated.http-TEST.acl
cd https-TEST
replace https-HOSTNAME to https-TEST in following files (start, stop, restart, reconfig, rotate, config/magnus.conf, config/server.xml)
cd ..
now delete the listener socket id
./bin/https-TEST/bin/HttpServerAdmin delete -l -id ls1 -sinst https-TEST -d INSTALL_ROOT (where you server is installed)
followed by create a new listener socket id
./bin/https-TEST/bin/HttpServerAdmin create -l -id ls1 -ip ANY -port NEW_PORT -sname HOSTNAME -defaultvs https-TEST -sinst https-TEST -d INSTALL_ROOT
[ similarly, you can perform other server admin tasks using this command' ]