- Start the IIS application and create a new virtual directory
for the Web site instance that you intend to work with WebSphere Application
Server. These instructions assume that you are using the Default Web Site.
Click Programs > Administrative Tools > Internet Information
Services (IIS) Manager on a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
system, for example.
- Expand the tree on the left until you see Default
Web Site.
Right-click Default Web Site
> New > Virtual Directory to create the directory with a default
installation.
- Type sePlugins in the Alias field
in the Virtual Directory Alias panel of the Virtual Directory Creation Wizard,
then click Next.
- Browse to the plugins_root\bin\IIS_web_server_name directory in the Path field of the Web Site Content Directory panel of the
wizard, then click Next.
For example,
select the C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\bin\IIS_webserver1 directory.
- 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.
- Click Next to add the sePlugins virtual
directory to your default Web site.
- Click Finish when the success message
displays.
- Copy the plug-in binaries to the plugins_root \bin\IIS_web_server_name directory.
For example.
copy the plug-in binary files to the C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\bin\IIS_webserver1 directory.
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.
- Expand the Web Sites folder in the left
pane navigation tree of the IIS Manager panel.
- 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:
- Click the ISAPI Filters tab.
- Click Add to open the Add/Edit Filter
Properties dialog window.
- Type iisWASPlugin in the Filter name field.
- Click Browse to select the C:\Program
Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\bin\IIS_webserver1\iisWASPlugin_http.dll file
for the value of the Executable field.
Browse to
your plugins_root \bin\IIS_web_server_name directory
to select the iisWASPlugin_http.dll file.
- Click OK to close the Add/Edit Filter
Properties dialog window.
- Click OK to close the Default Web Site
Properties window.
- Set the value in the plugin-cfg.loc file
to the location of the configuration file.
Set the location
to the plugins_root \config\ webserver_name \plugin-cfg.xml file, which might be C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\IIS_webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml file.
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 application server 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"
Local
stand-alone example:"C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\default\config\cells\
sa_cell\nodes\webserver1_node\servers\webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml"
Remote example:"C:\IBM\WebSphere\Plugins\config\webserver1\plugin-cfg.xml"
- Configure the Web server to run WebSphere Application Server
extensions:
- Expand the left pane navigation tree and click on the Web Service
Extensions folder in the IIS Manager panel.
- Click Add a new Web service extension to open the New
Web Service Extension dialog window.
- In the Extension name field, type WASPlugin as
the name of the new Web service extension.
- Click Add to open the Add file dialog
window.
- 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.
- 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.