You can create a web server definition in the administrative
console when the web server and the web server plug-in for WebSphere® Application Server are on the
same machine and the application server is on a different machine.
This allows you to run an application server on one platform and a
web server on another platform.
Before you begin
With a remote web server installation, WebSphere Application Server can facilitate plug-in administration functions
and generation and propagation of the plugin-cfg.xml file for IBM® HTTP Server for WebSphere Application Server, but not for other web servers.
About this task
You can choose a remote web server installation if you
want the web server on the outside of a firewall and WebSphere Application Server on the inside of a firewall. You can create a
remote web server on an unmanaged node. Unmanaged nodes are nodes
without node agents. Because there is no WebSphere Application Server or node agent on the machine that the node represents,
there is no way to administer a web server on that unmanaged node
unless the web server is IBM HTTP Server for WebSphere Application Server. With IBM HTTP Server, there is an administration
server that will facilitate administrative requests such as start
and stop, view logs, and view and edit the
httpd.conf file.
Important: The administration server is not provided
with IBM HTTP Server for WebSphere Application Server which runs on z/OS® platforms.
So, administration using the administrative console is not supported
for IBM HTTP Server for z/OS on
an unmanaged node.
The following steps will create a
web server definition in the default profile. This procedure does
not apply when setting up a remote web server for an i5/OS® web server. For information about setting up an i5/OS web server, see the topic entitled Selecting a web server
topology diagram and roadmap.
What to do next
For a non-IBM HTTP Server web server on an unmanaged node,
you can generate a plug-in configuration, based on WebSphere Application server repository changes. However, the following functions
are not supported on an unmanaged node for a non-IBM HTTP Server web
server:
- Starting and stopping the web server.
- Viewing and editing the web server configuration file.
- Viewing the web server logs.
- Propagation of the web server plugin-cfg.xml file.