The HTTP Server plug-in for z/OS® is
part of the web server plug-ins component of WebSphere® Application Server for z/OS Version 8.5. To use this plug-in,
you must have a Version 5.3 HTTP Server for z/OS configured as part of a z/OS system.
About this task
Note: In WebSphere Application
Server for z/OS Version 7 and
earlier, the web server plug-in for IBM® HTTP
Server (IHS/390) was located in the bin directory
of the WebSphere Application
Server for z/OS base product.
In Version 8.0 and later, this plug-in is located in the bin directory
of the web Server Plug-ins product file system, and the plugin-in
has been renamed from ihs390WAS70Plugin_http.so to ihs390WASPlugin_http.so.
Version
5.3 HTTP Server for z/OS is
provided with the z/OS base
operating system. HTTP Server for z/OS is not an
Apache-based server. HTTP Server for z/OS does not support
64-bit architecture and does not support IPv6.
This procedure
outlines how to install and configure the plug-in for HTTP Server
for z/OS.
What to do next
After the application server, the HTTP Server and the
plug-in are properly configured:
- The product can use this plug-in to perform regular plug-in functions.
- Requests can be routed from a browser, through the HTTP Server
and plug-in, to an application server on which the requested application
is deployed. (New requests are sent to randomly selected application
servers on which this application is deployed. After a session is
established, requests get routed back to the application server assigned
to the original request.)
- Private headers can be used as a mechanism for forwarding proxy
information from the web server plug-in to an application server on
a z/OS system. (This information
is not otherwise included with HTTP requests.)