[[Apologies for cross-posting to web-support and website-info-mgt]]
Hello everyone,
This is quite software-specific (and hence long), but I would really
appreciate some help having only had minimal experience with Netscape
Enterprise web servers.
The company which does our web hosting runs Netscape Enterprise 3.51 and
via this hosts *lots* (> 550) of kind of virtual servers (all of our Herts
County Council school web sites). Each server is done via a schema similar
to www.schoolname.herts.sch.uk - in the browser this resolves to
www.schoolname.herts.sch.uk/schoolname/ - each school has a different name
and its web site is located in a different folder, hence the trailing
directory (seen in [1]). This is (a) 'ugly' and (b) causes problems with
absolute references beginning <a href="/whatever">here</a> rather than
relative ones <a href="../whatever">like this</a>. We are pushing for an
upgrade to the current version of Netscape (aka IPlanet v4.1), but I am
told that this version *cannot* remove the trailing directory and therefore
will not address the issues mentioned.
Is this true? http://www.iplanet.com/ mentions that each instance of
IPlanet 4.x can operate up to 256 virtual servers[2] (hence we'd need more
than one instance, which isn't a problem) - I find it hard to believe that
a current commerical product which can operate on this scale cannot produce
a 'clean' www.schoolname.herts.sch.uk URL when something like Apache (and
others) can do this (I know 'cos I've done it...). Have I got the wrong end
of the wrong stick or am I correct? There is other documentation which
points to this as well [3].
I'd appreciate any advice and experience anyone has, am happy to summarise
any direct replies (which reminds me, I must summarise answers to an
earlier request...), as this is becoming a major issue for us! I realise
that (probably) not many people on the list are involved in hosting >500
servers (please prove me wrong but I'm not about to start an "actually,
I've got 634" contest...) but any answers or pointers would be invaluable!
Many thanks in advance & thanks for listening...
Ian.
[1] http://www.joa.herts.sch.uk/ - sample school site
[2]
http://www.iplanet.com/products/iplanet_web_enterprise/faqs_2_1_1_2m.html#How
does the FastTrack Edition differ from Enterprise Edition
[3]
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/40/ag/escontnt.htm#1025332
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Ian Usher
Web Editor, The Hertfordshire Grid for Learning
[w]www.thegrid.org.uk
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