EWA on Tomcat

kchinth2727 · 2007-01-12, 03:33 PM

Is it possible to make the EWA run on Tomcat? I saw the instructions to do this with Apache HTTP server, but I was hoping I go do something similar with Tomcat. Any ideas?

UncleJohnsBand · 2007-01-13, 01:58 AM

No idea. If you get it to work let me know.....somehow you have to get Tomcat to run something that will allow the .Net framework run within the Tomcat web server engine.......

kchinth2727 · 2007-01-15, 05:18 PM

I think I have a solution. I currently have Tomcat running, but not Apache. There is a module for Apache, that will allow it to talk to Tomcat. So I installed Apache and this module. I have Apache running on port 80 and Tomcat running on 8080. I can then tell Apache which Tomcat webapp folders to serve. So I got this all working.

I think I can now follow the aspdotnet module instructions to serve the GBPVR application through Apache. It should allow me to access my tomcat and gbpvr applications all through Apache on port 80.

I will let you know if I get it all working.

UncleJohnsBand · 2007-01-16, 09:39 PM

kchinth2727 Wrote:I think I have a solution. I currently have Tomcat running, but not Apache. There is a module for Apache, that will allow it to talk to Tomcat. So I installed Apache and this module. I have Apache running on port 80 and Tomcat running on 8080. I can then tell Apache which Tomcat webapp folders to serve. So I got this all working.

I think I can now follow the aspdotnet module instructions to serve the GBPVR application through Apache. It should allow me to access my tomcat and gbpvr applications all through Apache on port 80.

I will let you know if I get it all working.

I believe you are correct on all accounts.....let me knwo how you make out.

haripj · 2007-01-19, 12:31 AM

Along the same lines, does anyone run EWA off of IIS directly as a subdirectory of the website? I currently direct the client to port 7647 - its not a big deal, but would be more secure to have it as a sub-directory, I think...

kchinth2727 Wrote:Is it possible to make the EWA run on Tomcat? I saw the instructions to do this with Apache HTTP server, but I was hoping I go do something similar with Tomcat. Any ideas?

UncleJohnsBand · 2007-01-19, 03:28 AM

haripj Wrote:Along the same lines, does anyone run EWA off of IIS directly as a subdirectory of the website? I currently direct the client to port 7647 - its not a big deal, but would be more secure to have it as a sub-directory, I think...

If you are asking if it is more secure to run EWA via IIS or via the built in web server......I don't think you are any more secure using IIS.

Is that what you were wondering?

haripj · 2007-01-19, 06:37 PM

Well, partly.
I wanted to know if I can run it off a subdirectory of my website e.g. http://mysite.com/webadmin, instead of http://mysite.com:7647
That way I have to open only one port to the cruel world of the world wide web...

UncleJohnsBand Wrote:If you are asking if it is more secure to run EWA via IIS or via the built in web server......I don't think you are any more secure using IIS.

Is that what you were wondering?

UncleJohnsBand · 2007-01-19, 09:17 PM

haripj Wrote:Well, partly.
I wanted to know if I can run it off a subdirectory of my website e.g. http://mysite.com/webadmin, instead of http://mysite.com:7647
That way I have to open only one port to the cruel world of the world wide web...

Are you running full fledge IIS or are you running XP Pro with IIS.....which only lets you have one main site?

haripj · 2007-01-20, 03:21 PM

The latter - XP Pro with IIS. I have the one main site (that I have to run off of port 8080, by the way, due to ISP restrictions).

UncleJohnsBand Wrote:Are you running full fledge IIS or are you running XP Pro with IIS.....which only lets you have one main site?

UncleJohnsBand · 2007-01-20, 04:33 PM

haripj Wrote:The latter - XP Pro with IIS. I have the one main site (that I have to run off of port 8080, by the way, due to ISP restrictions).

SHould be easy to setup....I know others have....

This is what I did.....

Simply right click on the web folder under gbpvr....then select properties and then click on the Web Sharing tab. Select to share the folder and pick a name.

Then you should be able to access the sire simply by doing an http://localhost:8080/whatyoucalledyoursite/guide.aspx .

Some things to watch for.....

In IIS make sure that the site is set to use ASP.Net 2.0.....look at the properties for the site in IIS....should be a tab for .Net.

There have been some people that reported issues with security.....may need to give access to the GBPVR directory to the ASPNET user account....