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HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server

Using the Web Server

Simply point your web browser to:

• http://www.yourcompanyhere.com/ (for non-secure access; assumes a standard

listening port of 80)

• https://www.yourcompanyhere.com/ (for secure access; assumes a standard

listening port of 443)

Web server content located under the DocumentRoot of the secure virtual server is

automatically secured when viewed with a https:// URL. For CGI applications, no

special programming is necessary to take advantage of this security, though additional

security-related environment variables are available. See the “Environment Variables”

section of the Mod_ssl manual.

The web server creates numerous log ﬁles in /APACHE/SECURE/logs that will grow

without bound. You will want to periodically examine and purge these. You should only

purge log ﬁles when the server is down, or after restarting the server as shown:

1. :HELLO MGR.APACHE,SECURE

2. :XEQ SH.HPBIN.SYS -L

3. $ cd logs

4. $ mv access_log access_log.snapshot (the server is still writing to

access_log.snapshot)

5. $ mv error_log error_log.snapshot (the server is still writing to

error_log.snapshot)

6. $ mv ssl_engine_log ssl_engine_log.snapshot (the server is still writing to

ssl_engine_log.snapshot)

7. $ mv ssl_request_log ssl_request_log.snapshot (the server is still writing to

ssl_request_log.snapshot)

8. $ kill -HUP `cat httpd.pid`

9. Process and optionally purge the *.snapshot ﬁles; the server is no longer writing to

them.