IIS 7 & the ISAPI Filter Configuration

I am struggling to understand the configuration of the ISAPI filter for IIS 7 & LiveSite 7.1.

I can't seem to find any documentation that explains the significance of the variables in the uriworkermap.properties or server.xml.

I have reviewed a document called "IISLiveSitesetup.pdf" on the support site, and it shows you how to install the ISAPI filter, but it doesn't explain why you are doing what you are doing.

Are there any experts out there than can enlighten me?

Thanks.

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vpatel

What exactly are you trying to do?

Rick Poulin

The ISAPI filter provided by IWOV is the Jakarta ISAPI Redirector (open source). You can find the documentation at the project website:

http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/reference/iis.html

k1DBLITZ

Rpoulin-

Thank you for the link to the documentation. That helps me somewhat, but I am still a bit unsure of how I need to map the directories.

IIS and Tomcat/LiveSite are running on the same server.

IIS is able to serve its content natively if I access http://servername

Tomcat/LiveSite is able to serve its content if I access http://servername:1776

What I don't quite understand is how to configure the ISAPI filter in IIS to pass off requests to Tomcat/LiveSite.

The Interwoven directions had me map the following:
/home=wlb
/home/*=wlb
/uk=wlb
/uk/*=wlb

I don't understand how that is relevant to my directory structure.

Does this mean that I should be able to http://servername/home and see content from Tomcat/LiveSite?

vpatel

Where did you find this PDF guide on the support site? Are you sure you are not looking at installing / setting up LS for .NET instead of LS for Java?

k1DBLITZ

It's article number 57820.

Tomcat provides the environment for the Java pages/servlets to run, but does not handle direct connections from users. This is where IIS comes in to play.

Where did you find this PDF guide on the support site? Are you sure you are not looking at installing / setting up LS for .NET instead of LS for Java?

vpatel

It's article number 57820.

Tomcat provides the environment for the Java pages/servlets to run, but does not handle direct connections from users. This is where IIS comes in to play.

Article 57820 is a dated article -- March 2007 -- and LS 7.0/7.1 were released late 2009/early 2010. Significant differences between LS 3.x and LS 7.x. That PDF may not apply. I still don't see the actual PDF in that article.

vpatel

Refer to this article as most of the work is on the IIS side: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc-archive/jk2/jk/iishowto.html

k1DBLITZ

Thanks for the link. That really helped me to wrap my mind around what I was editing and why.

I now have IIS successfully serving up content from tomcat/livesite.

I missed adding the "protocol=" line in the server.xml:

Connector
                   port="1776"
                   maxThreads="150"
                   threadPriority="MAX_PRIORITY"
                   minSpareThreads="25"
                   maxSpareThreads="75"
                   enableLookups="false"
                   acceptCount="100"
                   debug="5"
                   connectionTimeout="20000"
                   useURIValidationHack="false"
                   disableUploadTimeout="true"
                   URIEncoding="UTF-8"
                                                   protocol="AJP/1.3" />

After adding protocol="AJP/1.3" and restarting tomcat I can now serve up content through IIS.

Thanks everyone for the help.