Abaqus HTML documentation is installed separately from the licensing and product installations and is viewed through a web browser. It is recommended that you install and start the Abaqus web server to serve the HTML (and PDF) files to your users' web browsers. You can install HTML documentation without a web server; however, in this case no search functionality is available. For information on the documentation installation options, see “Abaqus documentation installation details,” Section 2.2.
This appendix contains information related to configuring the web server and Abaqus HTML documentation. You must configure the Abaqus HTML documentation if you use an existing non-Abaqus web server during the HTML documentation installation procedure, if you install Abaqus products before installing Abaqus HTML documentation, or if you do not specify the URL for HTML documentation during the product installation.
For the latest information on supported web servers and configuring existing non-Abaqus web servers, see the Dassault Systèmes Knowledge Base at www.3ds.com/support/knowledge-base.
Note: When you install the Abaqus HTML documentation, the PDF files are also installed. Both the HTML and PDF versions are available through a web browser, via a link from the HTML collection home page (index.html) to the PDF collection index file (index.pdf).