Previewing ASP and JSP Pages

Hi,

Environment: Teamsite 6.5 SP2 on windows 2003 server and IIS as customer webserver.

We have all our websites implemented on microsoft technologies and we do not have any issues with them previwing in teamsite. But now one of our new website is on a J2EE architecture using JSP's, servlets. Since we are using IIS as our webserver I am sure we will be able to preview only ASP pages and not JSP pages.
Can someone help me how we can preview both ASP and JSP pages in teamsite.
I am thinking of having sunone webserver as customer webserver which can server both ASP and JSP pages.
Please let me know if there are any other alternatives.

thanks in advance

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Migrateduser

I am not sure if this works as never implemented it.

- Install a J2EE app server
- Configure current customer webserver to redirect the request for JSP|Servlets|EJB to J2EE app server.

Migrateduser

I found the following link and thought this made sense. Basically after you install your Java web server, you will need to go into IIS, go to the website you wish to server .jsp files, add the .jsp mapping, and a dll in the webserver to serve that type of page (JSP). I never done this, but like I said it made sense...

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=265716&messageID=1008985#1008985

koryn

We've just gone through the process of adding preview to a TeamSite installation at a client site using WebSphere as the J2EE application server and it was reasonably straight-forward, with the exception of this issue (still unresolved):
http://devnet.interwoven.com/forums_vb/showthread.php?t=17200&forumid=11

The following Knowledge Base articles were useful (and don't seem to be referenced all in one place, I gathered these one at a time from various sources):

49954 (Debugging the Double Proxy Configuration)
1472 (SmartContext Editing)
1341 (Teaching Proxy to Map Files Which are Understood by Application servers)

and chapter 8 in the TeamSite Administration Guide (Configuring the Web Daemon and Proxy Server).

Note that to preview from a workarea you need to do more than just have the webserver redirect requests to the application server; the files served by the application server need to be sourced from the TeamSite workarea (e.g. by pointing a symbolic link inside an expanded WAR directory to the TeamSite server's IFS share). The details depend on which processes are running on which machines, but that's the general idea.

Cheers,
Koryn

stefanmaier

Hi,
it should be no problem to install an additional webserver (perhaps a tomcat or something else) on your TS server, which renders your JSP pages.
See http://devnet.interwoven.com/forums_vb/showthread.php?t=12579
for more information, there're some hints...

Regards
Stefan

Migrateduser

If you don't want to install an app server on your Teamsite box you could install in on another server and configure your app server to use a share to the y drive on the Teamsite box.

or

Use a workflow, or menu task to allow the user to copy the file over. You may have to do some tricks to get it to copy over to the other server since doing a direct copy inside a workflow won't work because Teamsite may be running under the System account which doesn't have the ability to connect to other computers via a share

There are several ways to get your files to a another server.

suri123

Thanks so much for all your replies. I will update this post as soon as i get it working.