I am trying to create a URL scraper channel via the Channel Wizard. We are using v3sp2. We have had no problems creating channels since we installed this (a year ago). Now, all of sudden, after entering in channel details and submitting, it just hangs and eventually fails. It appears as though ...

I have problem while deploying application on sun Solaris. My application contains ejb, servlets, jsp . I am using iPlanet App server ….I am deploying using build script . when I run my build script in win 2000 ….my application successfully deploying . I can able to access servlets, ...

We would like to minimize the confusion upon login by minimizing the Portal Netlet window. Anybody know how?

Hi, I want to implement a theme provider, say a JSP, where the user selects a colour and submits, and the colour gets applied to the title bar of all the channels.Can someone guide me?Regards,Vibha

i am using iplanet portal server 3.0 sp3a.It does not have a theme provider .Where can i find one and how can i integrate or use it to customise themes?

Hi I am trying to telnet from iportal's netlet channel but it fails. The java console's message is as follows.Netlet is already running.Netlet not using proxy (IE)Netlet rule 0: local:5631 destination:TARGET:5631Netlet rule 1: local:5632 destination:TARGET:5632Netlet rule 2: local:8000 ...

When customizing the Authentication Interface, I am able to change the text of the form box field titles (like Enter UserID changed to Login Name) but I am unable to do some other types of formatting. For example, the form module inserts paragraph tags <P></P> around each of the ...

I have made a custom mail alert channel which checks for NEW messages (not unread messages)...Folder inboxFolder = store.getFolder("INBOX");count = inboxFolder.getNewMessageCount();But this returns me the total no. of unread messages even if the last message is read...I believe this method ...

I doubt that whether Iplanet Application Server supportsEJB2.0 Features.Please reply ASAP.

the orginal value of "Default Client Type" is "generic HTML" and after i hv updated it as "WML", I cant reach the admin page again.. can anyone show me how to change it back to its orginal value?

Recently, I accidentally removed the sole Admin Role of one of my domains. Afterwards, I was not able to use the Portal Server at all. The “error” file kept generating exception messages from AuthD class. It seems like there is a default domain of a Portal server and ...

I try to install iPS 3.0 SP3a, when I run ./ipinstall look the following message:Inspecting system.awk: record `Patch: 108528-14 Obs...' has too many fields record number 5Patch 108987-04 is recommended/required.awk: record `Patch: 108528-14 Obs...' has too many fields record number 5Patch ...

I am trying to access an application running on iAS 6 SP2 from iPS 3.0 SP4. App server and the portal server are running on two diff Solaris machines.I am using URL Scrapper. In the application I am trying to get the portal session :Session lPortalSession= null;SessionID lsid = null;lsid = new ...

iPS install a web server. But if I want install iPlanet Delegated Administrator for Messaging and Collaboration 1.1, the documentation says that on Solaris, the Web server is on the CD at /solaris/ES. It Web Server is different that the Web Server installed for iPS ...

Does Iplanet portal server connect to an LDAPS directory? If so, are these settings managed via the PDC Attributes (e.g. iwtAuthCert-useSSL setting)?

Have followed the Release Notes, however I still got the following error message on the webmail screen:var doc = documentvar form = document.formvar form1 = document.form1var form2 = document.form2var errno = 0if (!refreshing) { if arg.length > 6 && arg.substring(0,7) == 'bgcolor') ...

i have problems accessing my JSPs.this is the problem registered on my web server logs.--[24/Jun/2002:14:29:48] failure ( 9552): Internal error: exception thrown from the servlet service function (uri=/services.jsp): javax.servlet.ServletException:Invalid service host name, stack: ...

I am trying to access an application running on iAS 6 SP2 from iPS 3.0 SP4. App server and the portal server are running on two diff Solaris machines.I am using URL Scrapper.Am getting the following exception :com.iplanet.portalserver.session.SessionException: Can't find resource for base name ...

I am trying to access an application running on iAS 6 SP2 from iPS 3.0 SP4. App server and the portal server are running on two diff Solaris machines.I am using URL Scrapper.Have followed the following steps :1. Create the following directories on the non-iPS server host: ...

In IPS Reference Guide ( http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/portal/30/progref/signon.htm), there is this statement: <strong>"A system administrator can also pre populate URLs in the Profile database"</strong>. It appears in the context of how to pass along user authentication ...

Main functionalities of the awaited Portal Server 6.0.Will there be any migration tools to go from 3.0 to6.0, and if not will it be difficult to proceed andwhat will be the main points to take care of ?

I am getting the following errors on my gateway:7/23/02 2:59:20 PM EDT: Thread[HTTPSConnectionManager.listen(),5,main]ERROR: HTTSConnectionManager cannot create server socketjava.net.SocketException: Can't find certificate by this nickname.at ...

When I access the page for Messenger Express, with a non-default domain, (login: userID@domain) http://<server> a black box with script running down it and the page is then left white with a message: Loading: Please wait...and with the ...

Can I get portal server / gateway to add user information to every request it makes (I'm not referring to providers or desktop content).For example, when the portal server gets the following request sent from the browser: https://gw.xyz/ http://server/myurl.jspcan I write some code to make it ...

we have multiple portal servers and we want to have different ips.cookie.name in platform.conf in each one. Anybody know how to do this?

As I know, NetLet provides services only for application which works with fixed ports. Is there any way to force NetLet to do that ? or mayby proxy ...Let me know of Yours idea, please.

"When I do click on link Messenger Express of channel Mail into iPS (in a non-default domain) left white with a message:Loading: Please wait...If I look an html code, iPS add a all the url, for example:<script src="https://<server>:443/ http://<server>/my-domain/util.js>"and it ...

I have been studied portal for a while but I still dont know how to solve this problem. Actually, I need to provide an api for my partner's program which is running on the iplanet application server. Therefore I tried to write a servlet which would invoke the AddComponent class which is the ...

I have a recently installed iPS 3.0 SP4. Was testing a sample channel and encountered the following messages when I imported the provider xml:ipscustProvider-title-at: Info: Attribute already loaded in schema.ipscustProvider-title-at-wp-: Info: Attribute already loaded in schema......The ...

Hi there,I am using iPS3sp3 and I modified it so that JSP can display chinese character correctly. But somehow I still can not display the chinese character in normal HTML.For instance, I put chinese character in Ldap.properties file but when user go to the Ldap login screen, the chinese can ...

I created a Non-interactive authentication module which needs to preceed Ldap Authentication. I select my module in the "Authentication menu" and enter Ldap in the "Authentication Chaining Modules". I also add my module to the "Non interactive Modules" list. When I create a properties file for ...

Hi, I just wanted to know the different encryption algorthms that iPS Gateway Supports and how do v configure them.Thanks,ShivaRam.

Hi.I added a Tab Desktop to my portal and when I was configuring it, I changed the value of Start tab field. The default value is "My Front Page". When I entered in the portal, I observed the following message:A serious error has occured in the Desktop. This may have been caused by a ...

I haven't actually used/configured the IPlanet portal, but I have used Websphere. A collegue of mine said that we couldn't create any HTML component? and it took him 2 days to put a HelloWorld Servlet into the portal? it sounds really ridiculous if it's true?Thanks & regardsThinh ...

Hi friends,Say I've got 3 components laid out on the screen, C1, C2, C3. Within component C1, I've got a link, how do I make this link to change the content in C2 for example.Any help is appreciated,Thanks & regardsThinh

Hi I have a problem experiencing to store the updated user profile from the iPS Gateway component. The Error I get is "Error Storing User Profile". This is the error I get when I add some LDAP attribute alias Mapping on the Admin Console against the External LDAP that I have configured. If I ...

I want to write a java program that can add a user to a role or sub role to the Profile Database in iPlanet Portal Server 3.0. Does anyone has any idea or a sample program do such thing? Thanks, Tommy

Hi all.Rewriter in SP3HP3 is very limited for work right with our intranet. It use JavaScript 1.2, XML, XLS etc. We are thinking about migrate to SP4HP1 but if first release of Portal 6 go out at agost-2002, perhaps is better waiting to Portal6. What do you think?Is rewriter really better in ...

We have few links that we would like to prevent from being rewritten, is there any way that can be achieved ? We were using document.replace, unfortunately that function is part of the default rewrite list.TIA.

I've enable the PDC auth in portal server 3.0sp3a and use client cert. auth. to the gateway & portal using IE 5.5. After the auth. is succeed and a random period of time, the browser prompt me to enter password again to present the client cert. for auth. Is there any workaround to overcome ...

If the super admin removes a channel from the available channels list in a given domain, how can the super admin prevent the domain admin from manually adding that same channel back to the list of available channels?

Hello,How can I set the cookie from a JSPProvider channel? The standard way (response.addCookie) does not seem to work. I'd say the response wrapper just ignores it.Regards,Valera

This one is for the Sun Engineering Guys. Is there any technical information regarding this product available yet ?

I want to know more about portal servers. Is there any site which can clearly explain me the pro's and cons of a portal server.

I am trying to upgrade Portal 3.0 from SP2 to SP4. We tried once and failed. I found Article ID: 7880 which says that a certain version of a patch may cause problems. The patch version needs to be 7 or older, and ours is 9. So, my question is, where do I get an older version of the patch, and ...

"I am trying to upgrade Portal 3.0 from SP2 to SP4. We tried once and failed. I found Article ID: 7880 which says that a certain version of a patch may cause problems. The patch version needs to be 7 or older, and ours is 9. So, my question is, where do I get an older version of the patch, and ...

Support you have an user call user1 who is not exist in the portal server yet (never login before). You are giving user1's first name and last name. Now you are asked to write a program (not servlet or jsp) to store the user1 to the subEmployee which is a sub role of the role Employee which ...