Hardware requirements
64MB RAM, 100 MB Hard disk space

Software requirements
Win NT 4

Assumptions
Has windows operating system knowledge
Assuming the name of the machine where this installation takes place is "sharon"
 

Installation procedure

The following is the steps to be followed (note the order too) as given below:

1. Install iPlanet webserver version 4.1 (assuming webserver is installed in c:\Netscape directory)

2. Install WebSphere appserver by following:
 
2.1 Select the install option

2.2 At the time of webserver selection, select Netscape 36 checkbox

2.3 Select the conf file directory of the webserver, ie. choose the directory as c:\Netscape\server4\https-sharon.in.ibm.com\config directory.

3. After the installation, do the following in order to configure for the latest .dll file:

 3.1 Goto Windows explorer

3.2 Select the configuration file of webserver from c:\Netscape\server4\https-sharon.in.ibm.com\config\obj.conf

 3.3 Open this file in notepad or any other editor

3.4 One of the lines in the file is something like, shlib="c:/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/nt/ns36.dll"
 

3.5 This .so file has to be modified to libns40.so and the line looks like shlib="c:/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/aix/ns40.dll"

 3.6 Save the changes and close the file

 3.7 Now, goto Websphere directory (assuming Websphere is installed in c:\WebSphere)  c:\WebSphere\Appserver\plugins\nt

3.8 There is a file ns36.dll file in this directory, this file can be deleted (this step is optional)

 3.9 Paste the new file ns40.dll into this directory (from where ever you have stored this file)

4. Configuration is now complete

5. Start all necessary services (webserver's administration and server manager services) from control panel - services

6. Start working with WebSphere Appserver

Sample installation
 

1. Installed iPlanet webserver version 4.1 into c:\Netscape directory

2. WebSphere installation is:
 
2.1 Selected install option

2.2 At the time of webserver selection, enabled Netscape 36 checkbox

2.3 Selected conf file path as c:\Netscape\server4\https-sharon.in.ibm.com\config directory.

3. After the above installation, did the following in order to configure for the latest .so file:

3.1 Went to window explorer

3.2 Selected the configuration file of webserver from c:\Netscape\server4\https-sharon.in.ibm.com\config\obj.conf

3.3 Opened this file in notepad

3.4 Modified the parameter shlib="c:/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/nt/ns36.dll" to shlib="c:/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/nt/ns40.dll"

3.6 Saved the changes and closed the file

3.7 Went to c:\WebSphere\Appserver\plugins\nt directory

3.8 Deleted ns36.dll file in this directory

3.9 Pasted the new file ns40.dll into this directory (the downloaded file from the build site was stored in the local machine c:\downloads directory)

4. Configuration is now complete

5. Started webserver services from control panel – services
Started iWS (sharon.in.ibmn.com) and
iWS Administration server services

6. Opened the browser and typed the URL as http://localhost:9527, Websphere came up