Configure Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)

 

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When you install the Web server plug-ins for WAS, the Plug-ins installation wizard configures the Web server. This topic describes how to configure the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server.

You must have read/write access to..

plugins_root

...to perform this task.

 

Configure IIS V5.0

These instructions assume that you are using the Default Web Site.

  1. Start the IIS application

  2. Expand the tree on the left until you see Default Web Site.

    Right-click Default Web Site, then click...

    New | Virtual Directory

  3. Type sePlugins in the Alias to be used to Access Virtual Directory field.

  4. Browse to the plugins_root\bin directory in the field...

    Enter the physical path of the directory containing the content you want to publish

  5. Select the appropriate Execute check box (such as ISAPI applications or CGI) in the What access permissions do you want to set for this directory field.

  6. Click Next to add the sePlugins virtual directory to your default Web site.

  7. Click Finish.

  8. Right-click Default Web Site in the navigation tree and click Properties.

    Add the Internet Services Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) filter into the IIS configuration. In the Properties dialog, perform the following steps:

    1. Click the Internet Information Services tab.

    2. Click WWW Service in the Master properties window.

    3. Click Edit to open the WWW Service master properties window.

    4. Click ISAPI Filters > Add to open the Filter properties window.

    5. Type iisWASPlugin in the Filter Name field.

    6. Click Browse in the Executable field.

    7. Browse to the plugins_root\bin directory.

    8. Click the iisWASPlugin_http.dll file.

    9. Click OK until all the open windows close.

 

Configure IIS V6.0

These instructions assume that you are using the Default Web Site.

  1. Start the IIS application

  2. Click...

    Programs | Administrative Tools | Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager

    ...on a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition system, for example.

  3. Expand the tree on the left until you see Default Web Site.

  4. Click...

    Default Web Site (right-click) | New | Virtual Directory

    ...to create the directory with a default installation.

  5. Type sePlugins in the Alias field in the Virtual Directory Alias panel of the Virtual Directory Creation Wizard, then click Next.

  6. Browse to the directory...

    plugins_root\bin\IIS_web_server_name

    ...in the Path field of the Web Site Content Directory panel of the wizard, then click Next.

    For example, select...

    C:\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\bin\IIS_webserver1

  7. Select the appropriate permission check boxes in the Virtual Directory Access Permissions panel of the wizard.

    Select the Read check box and the Execute (such as ISAPI applications or CGI) check box, for example.

  8. Click Next to add the sePlugins virtual directory to your default Web site.

  9. Click Finish when the success message displays.

  10. Copy the plug-in binaries to...

    plugins_root \bin\IIS_web_server_name

    For example. copy the plug-in binary files to...

    C:\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\bin\IIS_webserver1

    The plugin-cfg.loc file resides in this directory. The first line of the plugin-cfg.loc file identifies the location of the plugin-cfg.xml file.

  11. Expand the Web Sites folder in the left pane navigation tree of the IIS Manager panel.

  12. Right-click Default Web Site in the navigation tree and click Properties.

    Add the Internet Services Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) filter into the IIS configuration.

    In the Default Web Site Properties panel, perform the following steps:

    1. Click the ISAPI Filters tab.

    2. Click Add to open the Add/Edit Filter Properties dialog window.

    3. Type iisWASPlugin in the Filter name field.

    4. Click Browse to select...

      C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\bin\IIS_webserver1\iisWASPlugin_http.dll

      ...for the value of the Executable field.

      Browse to...

      plugins_root \bin\IIS_web_server_name

      to select the iisWASPlugin_http.dll file.

    5. Click OK to close the Add/Edit Filter Properties dialog window.

    6. Click OK to close the Default Web Site Properties window.

  13. Set the value in the plugin-cfg.loc file to the location of the configuration file.

    Set the location to...

    plugins_root\config\webserver_name\plugin-cfg.xml

    ...which might be...

    C:\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\IIS_webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml

    The location varies depending on how you have configured your system. If the Web server and the Application Server are on separate machines, you have a remote installation.

    If the two servers are on the same machine, you have a local installation.

    If the two servers are on the same machine and the appserver is federated, you have a local distributed installation.

    Local distributed example:

    C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\custom01\config\cells\dmgrcell\nodes\managed_node\servers\webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml
    Example:

    C:\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml

  14. Configure the Web server to run WAS extensions:

    1. Expand the left pane navigation tree and click on the Web Service Extensions folder in the IIS Manager panel.

    2. Click Add a new Web service extension to open the New Web Service Extension dialog window.

    3. In the Extension name field, type WASPlugin as the name of the new Web service extension.

    4. Click Add to open the Add file dialog window.

    5. In the Path to file field, type the path or click Browse to navigate to the correct iisWASPlugin_http.dll file that the new Web service extension requires, and click OK.

    6. Select the Set extension status to Allowed check box to automatically set the status of the new Web service extension to Allowed and click OK.

 

Configure multiple Web sites.

Given:

  1. Run IIS in worker process isolation mode (default).

    To enable worker process in isolation mode:

    1. Open the IIS Manager console and expand the local computer by clicking the plus sign.

    2. Expand the Web Sites folder, then right-click the Default Web Sites folder.

    3. Click Properties, then click the Service tab.

    4. Under Isolation mode, clear the Run Web service in IIS 5.0 isolation mode check box to enable worker process isolation mode.

  2. Define two application pools; one for website1 and the other for website2. Do not use the pre-defined application pool DefaultAppPool.

  3. Define the two Web sites, including the filter setting, virtual host setting, and extension settings.

  4. Assign an application pool for each Web site.

    1. Under each Web site folder, right click on the Web site name.

    2. Click Property, and select the Home Directory tab. 2.

    3. At the bottom of the application settings, select the application pool you defined for Web site 1 from the drop-down list of application pools.

    4. Click OK.

    5. Repeat the previous steps for the second Web site and select the application pool you defined for Web site 2.

  5. Start the IIS service and start each Web site.

 

Results

This procedure results in reconfiguring the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server.

On some editions of the Windows operating system, the http_plugin.log file is not created automatically when the plug-in is installed and the IIS Web server is started. If the http_plugin.log file is not created after performing the procedure described above, take the following steps:

  1. Open a Windows Explorer window.

  2. Browse to the plugins_root\logs\web_server_name directory.

  3. Share the folder and give full-control permission to everyone.

 

What to do next

You can now install applications on the configured Web server. See the Applications section of the information center for more information.

 

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