IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0.2

Overview

This document contains the recommended method of integrating Zeus Web Server with IBM WebSphere. It is based on using the Zeus Web Server Gateway Module as the mechanism to make the decision about which requests should be forwarded onto the built-in WebSphere web server. These instructions are generic across Unix platforms.

The previous recommended method of integration was to use the NSAPI module. Unfortunately, IBM only released NSAPI plugins for certain platforms on the versions of Websphere that we tested.

Installation Instructions

1. Download and install WebSphere as per the documentation available with the product and ensure that it is possible to request pages from it's built-in web server.

   NOTE - WebSphere uses the same port numbers as a default Zeus Web server installation e.g 9080 and 9090. It will be neccessary to change one of these products to use different ports.

2. Enable the Gateway Module from the Zeus Web Server Administration Server.

3. Either specify a list of directories whose content should be mapped to WebSphere:

         Requests to send  Web Server      Port
         /servlet          localhost       9080
   

   or:

   specify a file type extension that associates a particular content type with Websphere:

         Requests to send  Web Server      Port
         ~/.*\.jsp         localhost       9080
   

   Ideally no static content should be forwarded to Websphere's HTTP server to take advantage of Zeus Web Server's superior connection handling abilities.

4. Enable 'Rewrite HTTP redirects' and 'Rewrite domain within a cookie' via the Radio buttons.

5. Commit the changes to the virtual server

Further information is available at http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/index.html for documentation on the Java Servlet API and JSP API.

For assistance in deploying Third Party Products with Zeus software please contact your Zeus account manager or alternativly email sales@zeus.com to find out more about our Integration Services.

Content Manager [Administrator] 10 November 2005