RE: Adaptor Http deployment issue: The Lights On, But Nobody's Home
RE: Adaptor Http deployment issue: The Lights On, But Nobody's Home
- Subject: RE: Adaptor Http deployment issue: The Lights On, But Nobody's Home
- From: "Jonathan Fleming" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:12:52 +0100
Morning Folks,
Can some verify to me that i am actually about to do this right because the
administrattor won't be non to happy if I tie up his time with him have to
reinstall the registry if i get it wrong.
I want to use the ISAPI adaptor on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server Machine,
installed is WO5.2.1 and this is how I understand what has to be done.
The WebObjects.dll in the C:\Apple\Library\WebObjects\Adaptors\IIS directory
is the actual adaptor, yeah? Nothing need be altered with this - correct?
This then needs to be copied to the cgi-bin or scripts directory where
WebObjects.exe is already installed by default upon WebObjects installation
- what do i do with the .exe adaptor remove it or leave it?
Next As I understand it is that I need to create some entries into the
registry as there is no other way to pass infomation to an ISAPI adaptor, so
in the subtree titled HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, under:
SOFTWARE\Apple\WebObjects\Configuration I will add these keys
"CONF_URL",
"WOADAPTORINFO",
"WOUSERNAME",
"WOPASSWORD",
"CONF_INTERVAL",
"CONF_URL",
"SEND_TIMEOUT",
"RECV_TIMEOUT",
"CONNECT_TIMEOUT",
"TIMEOUT",
"POOL_SIZE",
"RETRIES",
"DORMANT_INTERVAL",
"ERROR_REDIRECT",
"LOG_PATH",
"TRANSPORT",
"SCHEDULER",
"DOCUMENT_ROOT",
"WEBOBJECTS_OPTIONS".
and I would add all of these even if not being used (no values set) so that
it is a one time headache for the administrator, less taxing on my pocket
and that they are ever-ready to be used. Please tell me this is OK to do -
it is isn't it?
All these keys will follow the documents guide and make them of the data
type REG_SZ.
To start with I shall make the value of the CONF_URL entry
file:///Apple/Local/Library/WebObjects/Configuration/WOConfig.xml, is this a
correct string (forward slashes) to set with no quotes? Else I could use an
address such as http://jandmbuildingservices.co.uk:1085, would that work?
Next I will open up Monitor create a Host, add my application, configure it
along with the adaptor settings and then add my instance. I would then
navigate to the Host tab and click on YES under Available to get my wotask
information page and copy the xml details under Adaptor Config as written to
disk - All Registered Applications and Instances. I shall then paste and
save this in a file I shall call WOConfig.xml and save it to
C:\Apple\Library\WebObjects\Configuration directory.
At this point is there anything I am missing or any tips that would be of
benefit so far?
One other thing, I presume that a configuration through Monitor and
WOConfig.xml would take care of pointing the necessary information at the
required registry entries we set up earlier, or does something else need to
be done for this too?
If all of this is correct then I have a problem on my test server maching as
I have done excatly so and can not get any information passed, wotaskd is
not looking at the ISAPI adaptor and I am missing out on how to get it to
write to the WOConfig.xml file automatically, though I'm not sure this is a
good idea. It seems from the documentation that it's best to have this files
as a manual configuration - any takes on that?
Lastly, it may be that I have read so much I've simply skiped over this, but
how do I actually call up the WOAdaptor Information page once the password
and user name are set in the registry?
If there is any more information that I am short of here, I am willing to
learn it, so please come forward and offer you suggestions. I'll certaily
appreciate them.
It feels so tantalizingly close to that first deployment yet I feel like I'm
a galaxy away from the goal.
Many thanks
Jonathan
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