Re: How to move forward

Jeff,  this is REALLY easy if all you want to do is serve up static web
pages from your iSeries.  I could say a lot about this topic, and Brad Stone
could say even more about it, but basically....here are the steps you need
to follow to get your AS/400 on the web, serving web pages:  These steps are
for a V5R2 system, but they apply to V4R5 and V5R1 also, for the most part.

1. Install iSeries HTTP Server (5722DG1) for V5R1/V5R2
2. Install and apply all CUME, HIPER and PTFs for 5722DG1, the Database and
the Java products (don't rememvber their Product IDs off the top of my head)
3. From iSeries command line:  STRTCPSVR *HTTP HTTPSVR(*ADMIN)
4. From a browser on your PC, enter this address:
http://youriseriesipaddress:2001
5. Click on the IBM HTTP Server for iSeries link
6. Click on the SETUP tab
7. Click on Create New HTTP Server
8. Select HTTP Server Powered by Apache
9. Give the Server an appropriate name and take all the rest as defaults
10. Click on the Finish button when you get there.
11. Click on the Manage Server tab
12. Click on the Start HTTP Server button for that server you just created
13. Wait a moment or two to give it time to start and then enter the
following into your browsers address bar:  http://youriseriesipaddress

You should see the default HTML page for that HTTP Server instance.

You can now create your own web pages and place them into the
"/www/servername/htdocs/" directory on your iSeries IFS.  (note: change
"servername" to whatever name you chose for the name of your HTTP Server you
just created.

That's it.

Pretty simple, huh?






Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Mailing List" <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: How to move forward


> Don't laugh when you read this.
>
> After some number of fits and false starts over the past few years, I
> think I am finally at a point (meaning I have offloaded some non-IT
> tasks) to truly expand my knowledge in IT by building an internal web
> site and/or 'htmling' some internal paper reports or something along
> those lines.
>
> I need to learn some or all of the following (I think):  HTML, XML,
> decide what to run as a webserver on an iSeries, learn how to run it and
> administer it, how to generate html from some programming language,
> decide how and where to store it in the IFS, etc etc etc.
>
> In short, I need to learn everything.  What do I start with?  Where is
> there a roadmap?  Do I need to take a college course?  Do I need to 'go
> away' to a class for a week or 2 to get started?  Do I need a bunch of
> books?  I have asked a similar question here before and was told since I
> am a single person shop, to forget Java and forget Websphere.  There is
> so much out there that I have read that it is very confusing.  To give
> you an example of how confusing some of it is too me, listen to this
> question:  Since I can put .html file(s) in the IFS and open them by
> clicking on them, what does a webserver such as the http server do for me?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Jeff Crosby
> Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> 260-422-7531
>
> The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
> the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
>
>
>
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