Installing ArcIMS Viewer on a remote Red Hat LINUX machine

Internet clients only

  1. Once you have installed J2SE JRE and configured JPI, close your browser to clear the cache and reopen it.

  2. Type the URL to the ArcIMS Web site:

    3. http://<hostname>/website/<name>/default.htm

  3. The ArcIMS Viewer installer, AEJava.bin is downloaded to your $HOME directory.

  4. To install the ArcIMS Viewer, grant execute permissions to the AEJava.bin file and execute it.

  5. At the language screen, choose a language and click OK.

  6. At the Location of J2SE JRE screen, choose the location where you installed J2SE JRE 1.3.1 or higher. This should be the same as what your $NPX_JRE _PATH variable is set to in Step 4 of Installing J2SE JRE 1.4.2 or higher on a remote Linux computer. Click Next.

    7. Note: You must have write access to the lib and bin directories in JRE .

  7. At the Introduction screen, click Next.

  8. At the Installation Directory screen, choose the installation directory and click Install. The installer creates a directory called AEJava at this location.

    9. Note: The Viewer JAR files and libraries are installed directly into the J2SE JRE directory that you selected in Step 8. See the install.log file located in AEJava/UninstallerData for a list of where each file is copied.

  9. At the Install Complete screen, click Done.

  10. Close the browser to clear the cache, and reopen it.

You are now ready to view ArcIMS Web pages created using the Java Standard Viewer. Proceed to Setting up ArcExplorer Java Edition on a remote UNIX/Linux computer.

Intranet clients only

Check with your ArcIMS system administrator if you do not know what $AEJHOME should be set to.

  1. Copy the Viewer *.jar files to your J2SE JRE ext directory:

    2. cp $AEJHOME/lib/*.jar $NPX_JRE _PATH/lib/ext

  2. Add $AEJHOME/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your .cshrc file:

    3. setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $AEJHOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

You are now ready to view ArcIMS Web pages created using the Java Standard Viewer. Proceed to Setting up ArcExplorer-Java Edition on a remote UNIX/Linux computer.