Starting and Stopping the Web Server

Once installed, the Web server runs constantly, listening for and accepting requests. You can start and stop the server using Web Manager, NetWare Remote Manager, or the NetWare system console.

1. From the Web Manager home page, click Enterprise Web Server servername.

2. Click Server On or Server Off.

After you shut down the server, it might take a few seconds for the server to complete its shutdown process and for the status to change to Off.

If your NetWare is taken offline for any reason, the Web server stops and any requests it was servicing will be lost.

Setting the Termination Time-out

When you stop the Web server, it stops accepting new connections. Then it waits for all outstanding connections to complete. The time the server waits before timing out is configured in the MAGNUS.CONF file. By default it is set to 3 seconds. You probably do not need to change this value. If you do need to change the value, add TerminateTimeout seconds to MAGNUS.CONF, where seconds represents the number of seconds you want the server to wait before timing out.

The advantage to configuring this value is that you can wait longer for connections to complete. However, because most servers have connections open from nonresponsive clients, if you increase the time the server waits, you will almost always have to wait the full time before your server shuts down.

Viewing Server Settings

From View Server Preferences, you can view your server's technical and content settings and see if your server is running. The technical settings come from MAGNUS.CONF and the content settings come from OBJ.CONF. These files are located in the server root, in the directory HTTP-servername CONFIG. For more information about the MAGNUS.CONF and OBJ.CONF files, see the Novell Developer Kit Web site.

The following explains the server's technical settings:

• Server Root: The directory where the server binaries are kept. You first specified this directory during installation.
• Hostname: The URL that clients use as a hostname to access your server.
• Port: The port on your system that the server monitors for HTTP requests.
• Error Log: The name and path of the server's error log file.
• MTA Host: The name of the mail server (used by agents).
• NNTP Host: The name of the news server (used by agents).
• DNS: Indicates whether DNS is enabled or disabled.
• Security: Indicates whether SSL is enabled or disabled.
• Asynch DNS: Indicates whether asynchronous DNS is enabled or disabled.

The server's content settings depend on its configuration. Common server content settings include the server's document directory, its index filenames, name and location of its access log, and default MIME type.