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Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide is now available! Congratulations to Bill, Arvind and Murthy (aka CVR)! They've been working on this book for two years. Bill developed the training for Web Server 7, CVR was the Engineering Manager, and Arvind was the lead Java developer. If anyone is qualified to publish a book about Web Server, it's these guys.

Meena and Jed have pulled together a nice document describing the deployment topology and configuration of Sun Web Server for the sun.com environment. Good job guys!

A small reminder to myself that a default installation of CentOS 5.3 does not, by default, include the Compat packages. The effect this has on Web Server is an installation that appears to have succeeded (bits are laid down on disk), but is completely unconfigured (no default instance or Admin instance are created). Re-running the installation and actually reading the screens shows an error:

     Product                     Status                Information
 1.  Sun Java System Web Server  Configuration Failed  View log file

Looking at the error logs shows this:

Here are the steps I had to go through to make Drupal 6.x work with (Sun|Open) Web Server (these are in addition to the normal Drupal installation steps documented by the Drupal project.