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Preface
The descriptions, instructions, and examples in this guide can be used to create
and modify a gateway instance to suit the needs of users in your organization.
Who Needs This Guide
This guide is for anyone who needs to implement a simple gateway instance
with basic directory lookup functionality. It is also for users who wish to
implement a more powerful gateway instance with directory authentication and
administration capability. This guide assumes the reader is familiar with HTML
file syntax and has a rudimentary understanding of how the LDAP directory
stores information.
What’s In This Guide
• Chapter 1, Gateway Features: Describes features and functionality of the
gateways installed with Directory Server 4.x. HTTP server recommendations
are also provided.
• Chapter 2, Setting Up the Gateway: Identifies the planning decisions and
tasks required to install and initially configure a gateway. Includes
instructions for HTTP server configuration, procedures for setting up a new
gateway instance, procedures for changing configuration settings on
existing gateways, and recommendations for configuring gateway clients.
• Chapter 3, Gateway Localization: Describes Netscape support for UTF-8,
explains how the gateway selects a character set, identifies the tasks
required to set up additional gateway locales, and explains how to set up
gateway locales for translation.
• Chapter 4, Files Controlling Gateway Functionality: Identifies gateway file
components, including search configuration files, object class templates,
script files, and search result templates.
