Routing requests from a plug-in to a proxy server

This topics provides information on setting up a WebSphere Application Server plug-in to route requests to a proxy server.

An administrator may choose to set up a Web server, such as IBM HTTP Server, with the WebSphere Application Server plug-in as a front-end to the proxy server. The plug-in configuration file for such a topology cannot use the traditional plug-in configuration generation mechanism if the requests are routed through the proxy server.

To generate the plugin-cfg.xml file to use with the Web server plug-in to route through the proxy server, complete the following steps:

1. From the administrative console, click Servers > Proxy servers <server name> > HTTP proxy serve settings > Proxy settings .

2. In the Proxy plug-in configuration policy section, click Enable policy .

3. In the Generate plug-in configuration drop-down menu, select the cell scope. This generates the plugin-cfg.xml file for all proxy servers in the cell. You will find the plugin-cfg.xml in the <profile_dir>/etc/plugin-cfg.xml directory.