Hardware requirements
128MB RAM, 100 MB Hard disk space

Software requirements
Solaris 7

Assumptions
Has Unix operating system knowledge
Assuming that the person installs, has knowledge about the OS specific tools for installing. (eg. Smitty, gZip etc etc..)
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 \usr\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 \usr\Netscape\server4\https-sharon.in.ibm.com\config directory.

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

 3.1 Goto command window

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

 3.3 Open this file in vi editor

3.4 One of the lines in the file is something like, shlib="/usr/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/sun/libns36.so"
 

3.5 This .so file has to be modified to libns40.so and the line looks like shlib="/usr/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/sun/libns40.so"

 3.6 Save the changes and close the file

 3.7 Now, goto Websphere directory (assuming Websphere is installed in \usr\WebSphere)  \usr\WebSphere\Appserver\plugins\sun

3.8 There is a file libns36.so file in this directory, this file can be deleted (this step is optional)

 3.9 Paste the new file libns40.so 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 respective locations

6. Start working with WebSphere Appserver

Sample installation
 

1. Installed iPlanet webserver version 4.0 into \usr\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 \usr\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 command window

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

3.3 Opened this file in vi editor

3.4 Modified the parameter shlib="/usr/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/sun/libns36.so" to shlib="/usr/WebSphere/AppServer/plugins/sun/libns40.so"

3.6 Saved the changes and closed the file

3.7 Went to \usr\WebSphere\Appserver\plugins\sun directory

3.8 Deleted libns36.so file in this directory

3.9 Pasted the new file libns40.so into this directory (the downloaded file from the build site was stored in the local machine \usr\downloads directory)

4. Configuration is now complete

5. Started webserver services from \netscape\server4\bin directory by issuing the following commands
./apachectl start
./adminctl start
at the command prompt

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