Mapping applications to IBM® HTTP Server

Map IBM® Connections applications to IBM® HTTP Server.

Before you begin

Complete this task only if you did not select to configure IBM® HTTP Server during the installation IBM® Connections.

If you plan to configure a reverse proxy, see the Configuring a reverse caching proxy topic.

About this task

If you installed and configured IBM® HTTP Server after you have installed IBM® Connections, your IBM® Connections applications are automatically mapped to the web server. However, if you installed and configured IBM® HTTP Server before you installed IBM® Connections, you must manually map the applications.

To map your IBM® Connections applications to IBM® HTTP Server and regenerate the plugin, complete the following steps:

Procedure

Open the WebSphere® Application Server Integrated Solutions Console on the system where you installed the Deployment Manager.
Select Applications > Application Types > WebSphere enterprise applications.
Map an IBM® Connections application to IBM® HTTP Server:
Note: This step instructs you to select webserver1. Ensure that you have defined this web server before you attempt to complete these steps. For more information, see the Defining IBM® HTTP Server topic.
1. Select the cluster on which the application was installed and the web server that will be servicing the application.
2. Select application > Manage Modules, where application is an IBM® Connections application.
3. In the Clusters and Servers box, select the cluster and server on which you installed the application. If necessary, use the Ctrl key to select both targets.
4. Select the check boxes for all the modules and click Apply.
5. Review the Server details and ensure that both servers are listed there. Click OK and then click Save.
6. Repeat this step for each IBM® Connections application.
From the WebSphere® Application Server Integrated Solutions Console, select Servers > Server Types > Web servers and then click the web server (webserver1).
Click Generate Plug-in.
Click your web server again and then click Propagate Plug-in.
Note: If you have trouble propagating the plug-in on Linux™, restart IBM® HTTP Server using the following commands:
```
 ./adminctl start
 ./apachectl -k stop
 ./apachectl -k start
```
Stop and restart the web server.
Synchronize the nodes.
Restart all IBM® Connection clusters.
Restart the Deployment Manager.

What to do next

To verify that the mappings are correct, complete the steps in the Verifying application mappings topic.

Test the mappings: open a web browser and try to access each of the applications by specifying the web address using the following syntax:

http://hostname/application_name

where hostname is the host name of the web server to which you mapped the application and application_name is the name of the application. Do not specify the port number.