Install on multihomed IIS server - possible?

[trondulseth]

Hello,

My company has a server with many websites/domains on it. The server is running W2K with IIS.

Is it possible to install Laszlo in a way that would enable all website owners to deploy Laszlo applications on their sites?

If so - and someone know how - could you please explain it to me (as detailed as possible - I'm a hell of a developer (at least relatively decent ;) ) but not to sharp when it comes to server configurations and stuff like that).

Thanx in advance
Trond

[dybomaha]

If you can interface your IIS with a servlet conatiner, you will be able to make it work.

I am not super fluent in IIS, but you should be able to make a connector and connect from IIS to Tomcat running on your windows server.

So, the method is to place the Tomcat container on the Windows server as a backend for IIS:


End User -> IIS -> Tomcat


The following link talks about how to do this:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/12/18/tomcat.html

Once you get the system set up, you should be able to control the whole thing through the connectors and your IIS configuration.

DYBOMAHA

[bloch]

I believe we have a document on how to do this when we released 1.0 here at

http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/download/installation-1.0.2/iis.php

I suspect it's a bit stale, but this might help you.

If you get this done, a set of up to date intructions that work well with 2.2 would greatly be appreciated at laszlo-dev@openlaszlo.org .

Best.
-Eric

[d~l]

from download options here ..

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/jakarta/tomcat-connectors/jk2/binaries/win32/

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for IIS <---> Tomcat connector .. download ..
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/jakarta/tomcat-connectors/jk2/binaries/win32/jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk2.0.4-win32-IIS.zip

for Apache 2.0.49 <---> Tomcat connector .. download ..
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/jakarta/tomcat-connectors/jk2/binaries/win32/jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk2.0.4-win32-apache2.0.49.zip

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Tutorials

Apache 2 <---> Tomcat

http://www.greenfieldresearch.ca/technical/jk2_config.html

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IIS 6.0 <---> Tomcat

http://www.rit.edu/~ack5504/tomcat-iis6-howto/tomcat_iis6_resources.html

http://www.rit.edu/~ack5504/tomcat-iis6-howto/tomcat-iis6-howto.html


or .. go to this file in the unzipped jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk2.0.4-win32-IIS.zip

Tomcat IIS jk2 connector\doc\jk2\installhowto.html

read IIS instructions

p.s. make sure you follow the instructions on editing registry .. otherwise your installed ISAPI filter will show red flag and not switch to green flag in default site web properties.

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[trondulseth]

Thank you for your replies. Hopefully I will find the time during this weekend to try and get this done.

Have a good weekend

Trond Ulseth
Waterswing Studio
www.waterswing.com