2.4 Chili!Soft ASP for IBM AIX Installation

2.4.1.1 Installation requirements for AIX systems
Installation of Chili!Soft ASP on AIX systems requires the following:
- You must be logged in as root.
- Make sure the Web server has been shut down. If you are not familiar with this process, consult your network administrator.
- You must have a minimum of 100 MB of free hard drive space.
This section describes using the Chili!Soft installation script to install Chili!Soft ASP, provides detailed instructions for installing the Chili!Soft ASP Server, and describes using the add_server Script and delete_server Script scripts.
2.4.1.2 Installing the Chili!Soft ASP Server
Before using the caspi installation script to install Chili!Soft ASP, you must first create a temporary directory. Copy the installation tar file to this directory, and follow the instructions below to install Chili!Soft ASP
- From the directory containing the installation tar file, type:
tar -xvf tar-file-name.tar
- After the tar file is extracted, run the Chili!Soft ASP installation script:
./caspi
- Read the End User License Agreement (EULA). If you agree to the license terms, type "yes" to proceed. If you do not agree, type "no" and the installation process will be terminated.
- When prompted, type the name of the directory where you want Chili!Soft ASP installed. The default will install Chili!Soft ASP under the subdirectory /opt/casp.
- The installer will extract the appropriate files and build the Chili!Soft ASP directory tree under the directory you specified.
- Next, the installer will ask you if you wish to perform a default installation or an advanced installation. If you choose an advanced installation, you will be able to select the port number that Chili!Soft ASP uses, and specify the location of Chili!Soft ASP configuration files.
- The install script will ask you if you wish to run Chili!Soft ASP in multi-process or multi-threaded mode. The default multi-process is the recommended mode due to superior performance and fault tolerance. See the Threading model in Chapter 3, Configuration for more information.
- The installer will ask what type of Web server you are installing Chili!Soft ASP to. You must choose one server now. (If you are doing an Advanced installation, you may also choose to install the Chili!Soft ASP engine only, without setting up your Web server. If you choose this option, you will skip to Step 12 below.) You can install Chili!Soft ASP to additional servers by running the add_server Script script later.
- Enter the system path for your existing Web server. The default is the standard installation directory for your Web server, (/opt/netscape/suitespot for Netscape servers, for example).
- If you are installing Chili!Soft ASP for Netscape Web servers and have more than one Web server configured on your machine, you can select which servers to install Chili!Soft ASP on. To choose Web server, select the Choose option when prompted. To install Chili!Soft ASP on all available Web servers (the default), select the All option.
- If you are installing Chili!Soft ASP for Apache Web servers, you may choose to install Chili!Soft ASP using Dynamic Shared Objects (DSO) support.
- To install the Chili!Soft ASP samples, select Yes when prompted.
- To install the Chili!Soft ASP documentation, select Yes when prompted.
- If you chose an Advanced installation, you will be asked to specify a starting port number that Chili!Soft ASP will use for communication between the Chili!Soft ASP engine and Web server stub.
- If you chose an Advanced installation, you will be asked to specify the location of the Chili!Soft ASP configuration files.
- The installer will ask if you plan to create or use custom components that use the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). Unless you will be building or using custom COM components that depend on MFC, choose the default No when prompted. See the section COM on UNIX in Chapter 13, Component Programmer's Reference for more information. If you choose to install support for MFC you will be asked about installing an X server.
- Next, the installer will try to install Chili!Beans. Chili!Beans enables you to access Java classes and objects from your ASP script. You will be asked if you have a Java environment (JRE or JDK) installed on your machine. If you do, the installer will ask you for the location of the Java environment, and install and configure Chili!Beans. If you do not have a Java environment, the installer will not install Chili!Beans.
- If you are planning to use a database with Chili!Soft ASP, select Yes when prompted for the database you wish to use. The default is No.
- For each database you wish to use, you will be asked to provide the system and library path for the individual database clients.
- The installer will install the required Chili!Soft ASP components, and will instruct you on how to add the Chili!Soft ASP library path to your system's library path.
- The installer will tell you to enter the following commands
# LIBPATH=$LIBPATH:[Chili!Soft ASP Install Dir]/lib
# export LIBPATH
where [Chili!Soft ASP Install Dir] is the directory to which you are installing Chili!Soft ASP. The installer will fill in this value for you. To make things easier, you should add these commands to your Web server start-up script. After the installation is completed, you will be prompted to restart your Web server.
Apache 1.2.6 users, and Apache 1.3.x users not using DSO should proceed to the Configuring Apachesection. If you chose to install Chili!Soft ASP samples and documentation, they are available in the /caspsamp and /caspdoc virtual directories.
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