Friday July 10, 2009

Installing Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 on CentOS 5.3 or Fedora 10-11 or Ubuntu

Installing Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 on CentOS 5.3 or Fedora 10/11 or Ubuntu

In my free time, I just tried out Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 update 5 on CentOS 5.3 and Fedora10 and 11 and Ubuntu. Joe has also written a similar blog on this

Download Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 for Linux from http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?cat=Web%20%26%20Proxy%20Servers&tab=3&subcat=Web%20Servers and extract the contents of tar.gz file

$gunzip  sjsws-7_0u5-linux-i586.tar.gz; tar -xvf sjsws-7_0u5-linux-i586.tar

Run installer, it will fail

$./setup

error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

CentOS

$sudo yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33

Now run setup, it will work fine.

Fedora 10/11

$sudo yum -y install compat-libstdc++-33

There is one more problem in Fedora 11 but is fixed in 7.0 update 6.

If you get error message like

lib/libfreebl3.so: version `NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3' not found (required by /lib64/libcrypt.so.1)

You need workaround as given in http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10769043#10769043

Ubuntu

You need to install libstdc++5 as shown below

$sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

If you get an error which has something that looks like /bin/domainname not found, you need to install

$sudo apt-get install nis

I have tested on Ubuntu 9.04.

*Note that Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 update 5 or 6 is not officially certified or supported on CentOS or Fedora or Ubuntu, but here's how you can make it work.

References

http://wikis.sun.com/display/WebServer/Installing+on+Ubuntu

http://jmccabe.org/blog/CentOS_WebServer_Install

http://blogs.sun.com/kkranz/entry/installing_sun_java_system_web

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=855603