Testing the Setup

The following is a list of tests which will help you determine if the server has been configured properly for access. The intention of the list is to check the basic areas of access and should not be considered to be a comprehensive set of tests. These tests also apply to Commerce Server/400 running as a regular HTTP server (i.e., not serving documents securely using SSL). Additional test cases are available for testing a site protected using SSL.

In order to perform the following tests the server must be started on the AS/400 and a Web browser must be running on the workstation.

Access to the IFS document root directory.

The document root for the IFS file system is set to WWWServ/WebDocs in the default configuration. Attempt to access the URL http://your.system.name/ substituting your AS/400 system's host name or IP address for the your.system.name part of the URL. The home page shipped with the Web Server/400 product should be displayed. The actual file brought back to the browser should be the index.htm file found in the WWWServ/WebDocs directory.

Access the Web Server/400 User's Guide.

The following URL should display the Web Server/400 User's Guide http://your.system.name/shipped/pubs/usrguide.htm.

Access to the QDLS file system.

Attempt to access the http://your.system.name/QDLS/ URL substituting your AS/400 system's host name or IP address for the your.system.name part of the URL. This should bring up the Dynamic Indexing view of the directory /qdls/ found on your system. QDLS has been configured as an alias pointing to the /QDLS/ directory. See the URL Locations section for further explanation about why an alias is needed to access the /QDLS/ directory when the default source type is not set to *QDLS. The resultant dynamic index should contain a Samples/ directory which, if clicked on, should contain other sample file(s) to view.

Access to the QSYS and QSYS/WWWSAMPLES library.

Attempt to access the http://your.system.name/QSYS/ URL substituting your AS/400 system's host name or IP address for the your.system.name part of the URL. This should result in a forbidden message indicating that the server is not configured to allow access to the QSYS library. Attempt to access the http://your.system.name/QSYS/WWWSAMPLES.LIB/ URL. This should bring up the a Dynamic Indexing view of the library WWWSAMPLES restored on your system through the Web Server/400 install. The dynamic index should show multiple files residing within the library. Both of the QSYS examples used the QSYS alias. See the URL Locations section for further explanation about why an alias is needed to access the QSYS directory when the default source type is not set to *QSYS. Also see the include libraries configuration section to determine how to allow access to other libraries.

View server log files.

Once the server has been ended with the ENDWWW command, there are 3 log files that could be available for viewing: the access log, the statistics log, and the error log. The error log file will not exist in the case where no errors were logged. The default directory for these logs is the /WWWServ/Logs/.