Question on configuring Plugin for WAS

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Hi Everyone, I'm fairly newbie to WAS (as I was an MQ/MB guy earlier).

I appreciate if you would consider my question as a newbie one and answer me without judging me by my question.

I have installed WAS 6.1 ND (Network Deploy Edition) in my local system and created the following profiles:
1. Profile 1 - Name: AppSrv01
2. Profile 2 - Name: AppSrv02
3. Profile 3 - Name: Dmgr01

I also have installed IBM HTTP Server 6.1 in my local system today and federated IHS as a node to the WAS.

I also clustered Profile 1 and Profile 2 above and created member1 and member2 (Cluster members) respectively.

Now, I am unable to test an application to reach WAS via IHS. Why is it so?
When I federated IHS as a node to Dmgr, i noticed that it created a folder in HTTP Server home called Plugins and there is a configuration file in it as well.

What am I missing? (or) What else should I do, inorder to be able to test my application? Is there any Plugin information which gets added to httpd.conf file after I propagate the plugin information from Dmgr admin console? (cuz I do not see anything by name plugin in the httpd.conf file).

I appreciate your replies and answering my question above.. Thanks a lot in advance..

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Posted By: sburra at Mar 8 2010 4:27PM

Sburra,

I would do the following:
- check if the plugin was configured correctly (look at httpd.conf for the Websphere module). Give a look in the plugin-cfg.xml, find the log file you are using, and check if the plugin is beeing loaded. Maybe the WAS process cannot write to your plugin destination!
- check if you have all the HTTP Ports in your virtual hosts (you must add the HTTP ports of your servers in the virtual host you are using).
- check if you mapped your web modules to your web server

Good luck!

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Posted By: rkrick at Mar 23 2010 7:59AM

Accessing WAS applications via IBM HTTP server

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There are many steps in volved here. I have shown some guidelines, but I recommend consulting documentation on both WebSphere and IHS.

When you deploy your application from console, target your web modules to IBM HTTP server also.

You also need to define your HTTP (and also HTTPS?) port numbers used by your HTTP server in WebSphere Virtual Hosts section. Use Environment ==> Virtual Hosts ==> ==> Host Aliases to define the HTTP ports. Here, is the Virtual Host you have defined. If you have defined any explicitly, use default host.

Then you need to generate the WebSphere plugin for IHS. Use Servers ==> Web Servers ==> Generate Plugin.

You need to specify the path qualified name of this plugin file in your IHS server's httpd.conf file.

Finally you may want to define alias for the various URLs in your application - also in the httpd.conf file.

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Posted By: muthubharadwaj at Mar 25 2010 10:04PM