Silent install of Sun Web Server help

I tried to do a silent install of the Sun Web Server and I get the following errors....
while doing /path.../setup -s -f /path..../install.inf
after checking this is the error log I saw...I dont even see a SUNWwbsvr folder created under /opt.
[05/09/11:18:09:38] - [Setup] Info Start...
[05/09/11:18:09:38] - [Setup] Info Start silent installation...
[05/09/11:18:09:38] - [Setup] Fatal No components are specified to be installed.
[05/09/11:18:09:38] - [Setup] Fatal ServerRoot is not specified.
[05/09/11:18:09:38] - [Setup] Fatal Can't initialize installation!
[05/09/11:18:09:38] - [Setup] Info DONE
Can anyone help me on what needs to be done??
Thanks!
Anand

Did you follow the supported way for the silent install ? ===>
For windows :
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-0131/win.html#wp25280
For UNIX :
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-0131/unix.html#wp28818

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Hi mv,
I probably mis-spoke. It is not so much the features that are missing in Sun Web Server, as it is the availability of additional user plugins. However, that being said, I chose Sun Web Server over Apache because of security and performance. I realize additional plugins could adversely affect both of those. I have emailed Sun marketing about a specific feature for Web Dav I would like to see. This would make things much easier for people who would like to do mass hosting virtual hosting. Most of the real valuable features that gave Apache an edge, the web server team has added in version 7. I have pasted a portion of the letter I emailed to Sun marketing below about Web Dav, and my logic behind it. This as well as being able to hook the user system into standard open source databases makes for a broader solution appeal. I realize I only have one view of the market, and these are just my two cents. :-) Thanks!
TonyZ
**** Letter ******
I was introduced to Sun Web Server several years ago when we began looking at moving servers away from Microsoft technology and also bringing them into our facility. As a network and sys admin, I evaluated using different web servers out there as we had a few years to work on this project to ensure uptime and reliability. Initially, I found Sun Web Server quite confusing and looked at Apache. However, after the web interface was retooled, I found Sun Web Server quite simple and refreshing to use. Since we have to be CISP compliant for the credit card industry, security was very important to us. Not only from a code standpoint, but also from an accidental misconfiguration standpoint. In my opinion, Sun Web Server out shines Apache and other alternatives by a long shot.
As far as the WebDav feature, what I have been looking at is how to expand and offer hosting and web services. I currently work for a small company which retails products on the web, and I also contribute to a few open source projects. Currently, I am working with http://www.mynajs.org/. We have been discussing how we could offer hosting for people wanting to try out the project. Hosting companies using Linux typically have deep hooks into the Linux operating system for managing users. For hosting, you have a whole specialized Linux stack with specialized disk quotas, users, ftp server with users based on Linux users, and mail. From my standpoint, while this works, it can become a nightmare as far as updates, system administration, patching, etc. For a business ROI, and technology footprint, this doesn't make sense. There are control panels out there that take care of some of this, but now you have another whole layer of technology to troubleshoot. If I do not want to use the Linux/Apache stack, and if I am using Java, and do not want to add Tomcat as well, what do I use? With Sun Web Server, I get the best of both worlds, one install, one piece of software, operating system separation, blazingly fast speed, out of the box clustering, one interface for management, standard serving as well as Java, and WebDav so that now I can eliminate an ftp server and reduce my footprint for security and maintenance headaches. One neat package. However, now I still have to manage and restrict users. How to do this using Sun Web Server? Right now, I have to either run an ftp server with quotas built in, or go back to the Linux operating system and work with specialized scripts an maintenance. In theory, if Sun Web Server had quotas, I have my user system with the controls I need. At the very least, if there were hooks to the WebDav system to perform custom processing on certain events, it would leave the door open for greater control of the user and system. Now if we want to offer a hosting solution, whether it be online storage, web hosting, or Java hosting, or social site, all we need is one product, Sun Web Server! With all of its features for enhancing performance, security, and much more. I might also add, that for a small companies, Sun Web Server has been a pretty much set it and forget it solution. It has been my experience for our servers to run pretty much without intervention once they are setup. With the watch dog process, if there is a problem, it is rarely noticed except for the admin watching the logs. Technically, I am not sure why anyone would choose something different than Sun Web Server. Apache is the hosting standard, but it is really Apache plus Linux. With a few more user features, I think Sun Web Server could replace the whole Apache/Linux stack, the Apache/Linux/Tomcat stack, outshine those solutions on heavy loads and high end features, and offer better ROI.

Policy Agent 2.1 causing Sun Web Server Crash?

Running Sun web server 6.0 SP7 on Solaris. Policy Agent 2.1 installed on web server. Identity Server on different Solaris box. Seeing the following error in log file for Web Server:
[10/Mar/2004:11:21:25] catastrophe (14462): Server crash detected (signal SIGSEGV)
[10/Mar/2004:11:21:25] info (14462): Crash occurred in NSAPI SAF validate_session_policy
[10/Mar/2004:11:21:25] info (14462): Crash occurred in function xmlFreeProp from module /opt/SUNWam/lib/libxml2.so.2
[10/Mar/2004:11:21:25] failure (14461): Child process admin thread is shutting down
[10/Mar/2004:11:21:26] info (15195): Installing a new configuration
This happens sporadically. I've patched the web server to SP7 and made sure it's using a newer version of the JDK (1.4.2_03) - any ideas of what might be causing this? It's not always the same part of the code (ie, not the same function) where it blows up. Sometimes there is no error at all - it just takes the web server process to 50% CPU utilization until we kill it.
Any thought would be most appreciated. I'm also posting this in the web server forum (posted here since it seems to be related to the policy agent)
Thanks,
Pat

You were absolutely correct
I've resolved this issue - the problem was caused by two things:
1. There is a new version of a library called libxml2.so that I had to get from Sun (they provided version 2.6.7)
2. My web server with the agent on it is on a seperate box from the identity server. These two servers were out of sync in terms of their system time (ie, the solaris box with the agent / web server was about 8 minutes ahead of the solaris box with the identity server)
Once both of these things were fixed (the time issue most importantly), the web server would not hang anymore.

Request the information about Sun Web server

Hi,
We are developing an embedded system. We need install a web server in our system. We got some information about Sun web server, but it is not enough for us to decide which web server we should use. Would you please give me some detail information of Sun web server?
1.Firstly, we will use the web server in an embedded system. Can Sun web server run in the embedded system, such as VxWroks, Embed Linux?
2.Secondly, we will use chroot jail to enhance the security. Can Sun web server support chroot jail?
3.We can pay money for the service. But would you provide the service to customize the web server according to our necessary and maintain the web server? What's the price?
4.Can you give me a detail features list of Sun web server? Or please check the following feature list. Thank you very much.
Feature List:(For native support feature, input (Y)es; Support via third-party product, input (3)rd; Not support, input (N)o).
Part I. Core Technology
()HTTP/1.1 　
()KeepAlives　
()Pipelining　
()Templated web site
()reconfiguration without restart
()On-demand web site deployment
()High scalability process model
()Linear SMP scalability
()Configurable log format
()Customisable error pages
()Dynamic log rotation
()Bandwidth throttling
()Basic Server-Parsed HTML (SSI)
()Dynamically-generated SSI
()Automated self-diagnostics
()Multiple logs　
()Virtual servers
()embedded in other applications
()extensible
()modularity
()J2EE 1.4 support
()IPv6 support　
Part II. Security
()SSL v2 and v3
()SSL(hardware)
()SSL certificate management
()Clustered SSL certificate deployment
()Antivirus
()ActiveDirectory authentication
()Antispam
()Built-in firewall
()LDAP authentication
()Anti-Denial-of-Service protection
()HTTP request filtering
()Malformed HTTP header protection
()Integrated attack monitoring and logging
()Hardware crypto support
()IP address authentication
()DNS name authentication
()User-based authentication
()Referrer-based authentication
()Basic Authentication
()Other/system authentication
　
Part III. Management
()GUI Setup
()GUI configurate
()Web-based user interface
()remote management
()WebDAV support
()Clustered web site management
()Group-based web site configuration
()Integrated licence management
()Configuration wizards
()Scriptable (command-line) configuration tools
()Real-time web-based statistics
()SNMP monitoring
()Delegated user management (htaccess)
()Scalable subserver support
　
Part IV. Application Support
()NSAPI
()ISAPI filters
()ISAPI extensions
()FastCGI
()CGI
()Generic FastCGI/CGI handler
()Secure CGI sandboxing
()Limit CGIs by CPU or memory use
()LDAP
()XML support
()SOAP
()Request rewriting
()Own API
()Own scripting/batch language
()WAR file support
()Content filters
()HTTP (Gzip) Compression
()Perl
()Servlet
()JSP
()ASP/ESP
()Secure setuid PHP
()PHP
Part V. Support
()commercial support
()MailList
()Forum
()Free telephone
()24x7 support
()GSA scheduled
()FAQ
()Tutorial
()Document
()Source code
Thank you very much!

Web Server is not currently supported under VxWorks or Embedded Linux. There's information on the supported platforms on the Web Server page at http://www.sun.com/webserver

Using Sun Web Server 6.1 from the IDE

Using JSE 8 with Sun Web Server 6.1 set as the target container, I have a SUNWS61deployment.xml file created.
That didn't exist in JSE 7. Is it WS 6.1 SP4 or SP5 -related ?
I also have ws61-sun-web.xml with a simple <sun-web-app/> tag (empty deployment descriptor).
What should this file contain? Is it a replacement for sun-web.xml?
Do I still need sun-web.xml? Its DTD declaration sounds like Sun
App Server 7 (http://www.sun.com/software/sunone/appserver/dtds/sun-web-app_2_3-1.dtd)
So you have plans to make "Sun Resources" (pools, JNDI resources, ...) created in the IDE be registerable directly in the Web Server just like it's possible with the sun app server?
How safe is it to use JSE 8 with an older Web Server Service Pack (say 6.1SP1)?

SUNWS61deployment.xml is created bythe IDE to be used internally and not to be used by the developer. This file wouldn't be sent to webserver after deployment.
The ws61-sun-web.xml is sun-web.xml only and yes it is same as it is in Appserver7 as the webcontainer for both Webserver6.1 and Appserver7 are same. After deployment to webserver, ws61-sun-web.xml is renamed to Webserver as sun-web.xml by the IDE. When opened the developer can edit in the XML editor.
The reason for having it as ws61-sun-web.xml in IDE is to avoid the clash between sun-web.xml of Appserver8.1 which is J2EE1.4 based whereas Webserver6.1 Web container is J2EE1.3 based.
It should be okay to use any service pack of Webserver6.1 with JSE8
Hope this helps

Best way to use Sun Web Server connection pooling with Web Application?

I have a number of applications that run Oracle and MySQL queries via Sun Web Server 6.1. I use the Web Server's built-in connection pooling, which works fairly well.
As an interface with the connections I receive from the Web Server, I use a class, which (1) accepts the SQL and database name from a tool, (2) Opens the connection, runs the SQL, closes the connection, (3) puts the content of the result set into a Vector of Hashtables, (4) returns that Vector to the tool.
Why do I use this Vector? That way, in my applications, I don't have to deal with opening connections (or getting them from the pool) and I don't have to worry about closing connections, because that's done automatically by the interface class.
Is this a dumb approach to use? I'm a bit paranoid about open DB connections, because we have had a number of problems where connections would not be closed, go stale in oracle, and clog up the database resources.
Can you suggest a better way to (1) smartly control opening and closing connections, and (2) enabling fast database access?
Sorry, but given this Java/Sun Web Server double topic, I'm going to post the same message on the Web Server board.
Any tips?
dailysun
P.S. For instance, in my tool, I call the interface class in this manner:
Vector results_v = Database.getSelect("SELECT * FROM TEST","database1");
getSelect uses the first string as the SQL and the second string as the jndi name of the Web server's database resource. getSelect does all the context stuff to get a connection from the pool, runs the SQL, puts the resultset into a Vector of Hastables (where each row is one Hashtable), and returns the Vector.

I have a number of applications that run Oracle and MySQL queries via Sun Web Server 6.1. I use the Web Server's built-in connection pooling, which works fairly well.
As an interface with the connections I receive from the Web Server, I use a class, which (1) accepts the SQL and database name from a tool, (2) Opens the connection, runs the SQL, closes the connection, (3) puts the content of the result set into a Vector of Hashtables, (4) returns that Vector to the tool.
Why do I use this Vector? That way, in my applications, I don't have to deal with opening connections (or getting them from the pool) and I don't have to worry about closing connections, because that's done automatically by the interface class.
Is this a dumb approach to use? I'm a bit paranoid about open DB connections, because we have had a number of problems where connections would not be closed, go stale in oracle, and clog up the database resources.
Can you suggest a better way to (1) smartly control opening and closing connections, and (2) enabling fast database access?
Sorry, but given this Java/Sun Web Server double topic, I'm going to post the same message on the Web Server board.
Any tips?
dailysun
P.S. For instance, in my tool, I call the interface class in this manner:
Vector results_v = Database.getSelect("SELECT * FROM TEST","database1");
getSelect uses the first string as the SQL and the second string as the jndi name of the Web server's database resource. getSelect does all the context stuff to get a connection from the pool, runs the SQL, puts the resultset into a Vector of Hastables (where each row is one Hashtable), and returns the Vector.

Deploying an ear file in Sun Web Server

I have an ear file that we use to deploy to weblogic. Is it possible to deploy an ear file to Sun WEb Server 6.0? Instead of deploying the war files one-by-one?
If yes, what are the steps?
Thanks.
Beth

No, Sun ONE Web Server does not support ear files; ear files are typically the domain of J2EE application servers.

Environment property on iPlanet/ Sun web server

We are migrating an application from tomcat to the Sun Web Server / iPlanet . Earlier in the tomcat server, our applications used context xml files and in them we had a setting as follows
<Environment name="instanceNum" value="100100"
type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
What is the equivalent of the above in the iPlanet server?
Thank you

This would be non-trivial in WS6.0. Additionally, WS6.0 is end-of-lifed, and has known security problems that are NOT going to be fixed. You should consider upgrading.
URL re-writing (and much more) is a native feature of WS7.0.

Setting up SSO between Sun Web Server and MS6.0

Hi,
I want to set up a trusted SSO between Sun Web server 6.1 and the MS6.0.The document does not give enough information about this.Any one done this before?
Thanks,
Ramnath

I'd recommend to cross-post your inquiry to the Security

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