Administration

Log Files

You will need to make sure that the log file is writable by whatever user (www by default) you have configured the server to run as (in plexus.conf).

You may want to look at the tools in bin/* for doing log file maintainence. bin/summary is designed to be run as the same user as plexus. It summarizes the log files using bin/usage.byhost and bin/usage.byurl into usage.* files and appends the log to log.summary. Then it restarts the server using bin/plexus-restart. You may archive log.summary as often as you like (I compress and save them forever).

$plexus_top Configuration

The last thing you need to do is write the files you wish to serve. This is probably the hardest part. Look in http://www.bsdi.com/server/doc/web-help.html for pointers to information about HTML and the Web. This file is organized by the type of user (user, author, service provider, and developer).

You will probably want to setup an index.html file in $plexus_top because that is what the server will map the root to (e.g., accessing http://your.server.edu/ will map to index.html). Basically, just grab someones that you like and put your information in it. For a simple one you might start with something like http://www.bsdi.com/.

Tony Sanders