Run the setupadm script for the administration server

When using the IBM HTTP Server administration server, the setupadm script establishes permissions for configuration file updates.

 

Overview

When using the administration server, we cannot update the configuration files after a default server installation, unless we run the setupadm script, or we set permissions manually.

 

Procedure

The setupadm script prompts we for the following input:

• User ID - The user ID that we use to log on to the administration server. The script creates this user ID.

• Group name - The administration server accesses the configuration files and authentication files through group file permissions. The script creates the specified group through this script.

• Directory - The directory where we can find configuration files and authentication files.

• File name - The following file groups and file permissions change:

  • Single file name

  • File name with wildcard

  • All (default) - All of the files in the specific directory

  • Processing - The setupadm script changes the group and file permissions of the configuration files and authentication files.

 

What to do next

The administration server requires read and write access to configuration files and authentication files to perform Web server configuration data administration. In addition to the Web server files, we must change the permissions to the targeted plug-in configuration files. See Setting permissions manually for instructions.

The administration server has to execute adminctl restart as root to perform successful restarts of the IBM HTTP Server.