Configuring your users browsers. PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1

Configuring your users browsers.PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1

We assume here that your LOCAL CACHE has been previously configured to peer with the JWCS.

Advice on configuring your local cache to use the JWCS with MS Proxy and Squid is available from the JWCS

Configuring your users browsers. Internet Explorer

PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1You could either choose to have your systems people configure all your browsers, or get the users to amend the settings themselves in someway.

Open Internet Explorer

Go to the “Tools” menu.

Select “Internet Options”

Configuring your users browsers. Internet Explorer

PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1

Select the “Connections” tab.

You will now have a menu which looks like this:

Press the “LAN Settings” button.

Configuring your users browsers. Internet Explorer

PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1See the LAN Settings menu as below.

Tick either the “AutomaticallyDetect Settings” or “Use automaticConfiguration script” boxes. FOR FURTHER ADVICE REGARDINGTHESE SETTINGS PLEASE CONTACT THE JWCS.

Tick the “Use a Proxy Server” box.

Configuring your users browsers. Internet Explorer

PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1Still in the LAN Settings menu,

DO NOT tick the “Bypass Proxy for local addresses” box. We will enter those details somewhere else.

Enter your proxy server address and port number in the address and port fields under the “Use Proxy Server” box.

Press the “Advanced” button.

Configuring your users browsers. Internet ExplorerPRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1

Tick the “use same proxy server for all protocols” box.

In the “Exceptions” field, enter your local addresses which should NOT use the proxy.

NON - CACHEABLE itemswhich we discussed earlier are Filtered out in the Web Servers Caching software.

Configuring your users browsers. Internet Explorer

PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1

Press the “OK” button until you

have exited the IE “Internet Options”

menu and are back at the main

browser screen.

Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE

PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1

Go back to your desktop and open Netscape Navigator / Communicator.

Go to the “edit” menu and select

“preferences”

Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE

PRACTICAL EXERCISEThe Preferences

menu looks like that shown here.

Double-click on the“Advanced” menu. 3 sub-menus should then appear.

Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE

PRACTICAL EXERCISE

Double-click on the

“Proxies” menu.

Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPEPRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1

The “Proxies” menu can Be configured either manuallyor by using a script.

For automatic configurationyou should enter the URL which points to the location of the config.pacfile on your Webserver.e.g. http://wwwconfig.fictional.ac.uk/config.pac

Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE

PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1

For manual configuration, select

the “manual proxy configuration”

button and press the “view” button.

Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE

PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1The manual configuration

looks like this.Complete relevant sections

and add exceptions into the “Donot use proxy servers for” field.

Click “OK” until you are back to the main browser screen.

Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service Support. – What the user sees.

PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2

The JWCS offer a support service to help users who experience errors and difficulties whilst surfing the web.

Please double click on Internet Explorer.

In the “address” field type: http://www.manchesteronline/zzzxxaa

Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service Support. – What the user sees.

PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2As you can see, you

are presented with an error message from the National JANET Web Cache Service as shown.

Note the email given at the bottom of the section.

Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service Support. – What the user sees.

PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2When contacting

[email protected] any error messagesshown on this page.

Use the email account and client given to you to contact JWCS Support.

Include the word FAKE at the beginning of your subject.

Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service Support. – What the user sees.

PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2The JWCS support team will respond to any users’ enquiry sent to [email protected] replies from JWCS Support are by email and contain a unique TICKET NUMBER in the subject field e.g. JWCS-TICK# 20010521.1954 Re: Janet WWWCacheUsers should keep this ticket number in the subject field.The automatic tickets enable JWCS support to track all support enquiries.