Accessing the Administration Console

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Accessing the Administration Console

The Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console enables you to configure and manage a Chili!Soft ASP Server running on the same computer. It also enables you to start and stop the associated Web server.

The Administration Console is hosted by the Administration Web site, which is installed along with Chili!Soft ASP. The Administration Web site consists of its own Apache Web Server and its own ASP Server. By default, the Administration Web site is configured to start when you start the computer running Chili!Soft ASP.

To access the Administration Console, use the following procedure.

To access the Administration Console

1. In your browser address bar, enter the following URL:

http://[HOSTNAME]:[PORT]

where [HOSTNAME] is the hostname of your Web server and [PORT] is the port on which the Administration Console is running (5100 by default—for more information, see the note below).

For example, if your [HOSTNAME] is www.mysite.com and the Administration Console is installed to port 5100, you would access the Administration Console at:

http:// www.mysite.com:5100/

2. When prompted, enter the username and password that were specified during installation. (You can change the username and password by following the instructions in "Configuring Usernames and Passwords" in this chapter.)

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The Administration Console opens, displaying the Server Management page.

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From this page, you can access the configuration settings for Chili!Soft ASP, view information about your installation, and start and stop the associated Web server.

Note

In order to access the Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console, you must specify its port number in the URL. The default port number is 5100. However, it might be a different number if 5100 was already in use when you installed Chili!Soft ASP, or if you specified a different port number for the Administration Web site during installation. If you are unsure of the correct port number, you can find this information in the Chili!Soft ASP installation summary file (install_summary).

For custom installations of Chili!Soft ASP, you can find the installation summary file in the following location:

/[C-ASP_INSTALL_DIR]/casp/logs/install_summary

where [C-ASP_INSTALL_DIR] is the directory in which you installed Chili!Soft ASP.

For bundle installations of Chili!Soft ASP, you can find the installation summary file in the following location:

/usr/local/chilisoft/casp/logs/install_summary

The entry reads as follows:

Administration console installed:

URL: http://[WEB_SERVER_HOSTNAME]:[PORT_NUMBER]

Port: [PORT_NUMBER]