WebSphere ND/HTTP Server Question

I am currently installing WAS 6.0.2 ND and am trying to set this up with remote HTTP Servers (IBM HTTP Server 6.0). I am having some problems with getting the Virtual Hosts and Directory directives to work. In the Oracle provided documentation, they show the paths to the application as local, but with remote HTTP servers, there is no installation on those servers.

What either 1) needs to be copied to the HTTP servers for E1 to work, or 2) needs to change in the httpd.conf file to point the configuration at the WAS server(s)?

Hope that makes sense!

John Garrett
La-Z-Boy Incorporated
E1 8.9 TR 8.96.G1/Win2K3/SQL2000/WAS6.0.2

You need to add the following on your httpd.conf file. (Its mentioned in the Installation Guide. Refer to section Chapter 4. Installing and Configuring the HTML Web Server of 8.96 Installation Guide).

Listen 81
NameVirtualHost machineName:81
<VirtualHost machineName:81>
Alias /jde "JAS_Home/installedApps/NodeName/EA_JS_81.ear/webclient.war"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost myserver.jdedwards.com:81>
Alias /jde JAS_Home/installedApps/NodeName/EA_JS_81.ear/webclient.war"
</VirtualHost>

<Directory
"JAS_Home/installedApps/NodeName/EA_JS_81.ear/webclient.war
/WEB-INF">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
</Directory>
<Directory
"JAS_Home/installedApps/NodeName/EA_JS_81.ear/webclient.war">
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from All
</Directory>

After the changes restart the http server.

Hi Nimal,

I have those sections added to the httpd.conf, but due to the web servers being remote from the WAS servers, that path does not exist on the webservers. For now we have gotten around the issue by copying the entire path off of the WAS server to the HTTP server, but this seem slike overkill.

Oracle had first asked me to map a drive (didn't work) and now they are telling me to do exactly what I have just tried.

Setting up remote web servers is very standard in WebSphere architecture, so I am surprised that no one seems to have come across this as yet with E1.

Any other ideas are appreciated!

John G.