D    Netscape Navigator and Netscape FastTrack Server

This appendix contains information about how to install and configure Netscape Navigator and Netscape FastTrack Server.

D.1    Netscape Navigator

This release contains Version 3.04 of the Netscape Navigator Gold World Wide Web browser. You can invoke Netscape Navigator Gold from a CDE desktop icon, located in the CDE Application Manager's Desktop_Apps folder. You can also invoke Netscape Navigator Gold directly from the command line by running /usr/bin/X11/netscape.

You can access detailed help on Netscape Navigator Gold through the application's help menus.

A DIGITAL UNIX home page contains links to helpful documentation, including a local copy of the Netscape Navigator User's Handbook. You can access this page at /usr/doc/netscape/Digital_UNIX.html. You should consider adding this link to your list of Netscape bookmarks.

You can find a sample resource defaults file for Netscape Navigator Gold in /usr/doc/netscape/Netscape.ad. Comments within this file indicate possible settings for each resource.

The file /usr/bin/X11/netscape is actually a shell script that performs the following actions:

• If a Navigator preferences file does not already exist at $HOME/.netscape/preferences, one is copied there from /usr/doc/netscape/default-netscape-preferences.

• If a default Java class file does not already exist at $HOME/.netscape/java_301, a symbolic link is created there to point to /usr/lib/netscape/java_301.

• If a default null plugin file does not already exist at $HOME/plugins/libnullplugin.so, a symbolic link is created there to point to /usr/lib/netscape/libnullplugin.so.

• The LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is set to point to /usr/lib/netscape and the actual Navigator binary at /usr/bin/X11/real-netscape is invoked. The setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH allows Navigator to use a special version of libXt.so installed in the /usr/lib/netscape directory. This modified library is necessary to work around a Navigator problem that prevents Java applets from running within the Navigator on some X11R6-based systems like DIGITAL UNIX.

If you previously had Netscape Navigator Gold Version 3.0 installed, you may remove the $HOME/.netscape/java_30 file.

This information is important if you download newer copies of Navigator from other sources (like Netscape) and install the files from those kits, replacing the links in $HOME/.netscape. Should you wish to revert to using Navigator Gold V3.04, you must first remove the new files so that the /usr/bin/X11/netscape script is able to recreate the aforementioned symbolic links that point to the Gold Version 3.04 variants of these files. Also, should you ever run a version of Navigator directly (that is, not through the /usr/bin/X11/netscape script), you will at least want to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point to /usr/lib/netscape before doing so to ensure that Java applets will function correctly.

The DIGITAL UNIX Installation Guide contains more information about how to set up Netscape. See Chapter 6, which covers postinstallation setup tasks.

D.2    Netscape FastTrack Server

This release of DIGITAL UNIX contains Version 2.01 of the Netscape FastTrack Server, an easy-to-use entry-level Web server designed to let you create and manage a Web site.

The Netscape FastTrack Server is provided in the DIGITAL UNIX OSFNETSCAPEFASTTRACK425 subset on the DIGITAL UNIX V4.0D Associated Products, Volume 1 CD-ROM. To install FastTrack on your system, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to the root account on your system.

2. Use the /usr/sbin/setld software subset management utility to install the OSFNETSCAPEFASTTRACK425 subset. This will install the FastTrack server in /usr/netscape.

3. Change your directory to the FastTrack kit directory:

   #  cd /usr/netscape
   

4. Read the readme.txt file:

   #  more readme.txt
   

   This file contains information from Netscape about the FastTrack kit. Because you've installed FastTrack from the OSFNETSCAPEFASTTRACK425 subset and not from a CD-ROM that Netscape ships, you can ignore steps 1-8 of the installation instructions, which pertain to installing from the Netscape CD-ROM.

5. Begin the configuration by running the ns-setup program and following the instructions in the readme.txt file:

   #  ./ns-setup
   

   The installation program will query you for several pieces of information and then configure the FastTrack server.

The installation of FastTrack Version 2.01 will not update FastTrack Version 2.0 installations that were installed from the DIGITAL UNIX V4.0B Associated Products, Volume 1 CD-ROM. After installing FastTrack Version 2.01 you may want to manually remove the files associated with FastTrack Version 2.0. Before removing FastTrack Version 2.0 from the system, DIGITAL recommends that you back up the server files. In particular, you may wish to save your public document tree and server configuration files so that these files may be integrated into the FastTrack Version 2.01 directory tree.

A second option is to copy the FastTrack Version 2.0 directory tree to /usr/internet before installing FastTrack Version 2.01. This will cause the installation of FastTrack Version 2.01 to update all of the FastTrack kit files to Version 2.01 while leaving the public document tree and server configuration files alone. If you use this approach, you should not need to configure FastTrack Version 2.01 with the ns-setup program. Doing so will wipe out any server configuration information that was present in the original Version 2.0 server configuration files. Be sure to verify that FastTrack Version 2.01 runs correctly and that all of your public documents and server customizations have been retained before deleting the original FastTrack Version 2.0 directory tree.