User Guide

Managing the Web Server 49
Getting Results with Novell Web Services
103-000133-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
5 Managing the Web Server
This chapter describes how to configure NetWare
®
Enterprise Web Server
preferences.
Starting and Stopping the Web Server
Once installed, the Web server runs constantly, listening for and accepting
requests. You can start and stop the server using Web Manager, NetWare
Remote Manager, or the NetWare system console.
1 From the Web Manager home page, click Enterprise Web Server
servername.
2 Click Server On or Server Off.
After you shut down the server, it might take a few seconds for the server to
complete its shutdown process and for the status to change to Off.
If your NetWare is taken offline for any reason, the Web server stops and any
requests it was servicing will be lost.
Setting the Termination Time-out
When you stop the Web server, it stops accepting new connections. Then it
waits for all outstanding connections to complete. The time the server waits
before timing out is configured in the MAGNUS.CONF file. By default it is
set to 3 seconds. You probably do not need to change this value. If you do need
to change the value, add TerminateTimeout seconds to
MAGNUS.CONF, where seconds represents the number of seconds you want
the server to wait before timing out.
The advantage to configuring this value is that you can wait longer for
connections to complete. However, because most servers have connections
open from nonresponsive clients, if you increase the time the server waits, you
will almost always have to wait the full time before your server shuts down.