Installation guide

Contents
iv EAServer
CHAPTER 4 Installing and Configuring a Web Server Redirector Plug-In .... 37
Overview ........................................................................................ 37
How the plug-in works ............................................................. 38
Load balancing ........................................................................ 39
Failover and detecting unavailable application servers........... 40
Binding to a specific application server ................................... 41
Debugging ............................................................................... 42
Defining a custom error page .................................................. 42
Configuring the data source for HTTPServletRequest methods 43
Installing and configuring an iPlanet Web server plug-in ............... 43
Edit the Web server configuration files.................................... 43
Edit the redirector configuration file......................................... 46
Copy libraries from EAServer to your Web server .................. 48
Installing and configuring an Apache Web server plug-in .............. 49
Edit the httpd.conf configuration file ........................................ 50
Edit the redirector configuration file......................................... 52
Copy libraries from EAServer to your Web server .................. 54
Make an entry for the Web host in the /etc/hosts file .............. 55
Start the Apache Web server .................................................. 55
Configuring EAServer to accept Web server requests................... 56
Set the EAServer HTTP listener properties............................. 57
Configuring HTTPS support for Web server plug-ins..................... 58
HTTPS installation instructions ............................................... 58
Enable HTTPS connections .................................................... 60
Manage certificates for HTTPS connections ........................... 62
Troubleshoot HTTPS connections .......................................... 64
Adding FIPS and TLS support to the Web server redirector plug-ins .
64
Enabling FIPS and TLS for an Apache plug-in........................ 68
Enabling FIPS and TLS for iPlanet plug-ins............................ 69
Managing FIPS for the redirector plug-ins............................... 70
CHAPTER 5 Configuring Open Client and ODBC for EAServer ..................... 71
Overview ........................................................................................ 71
Installing FreeTDS ......................................................................... 72
Configuring ODBC ......................................................................... 72
Creating a unixODBC connection cache................................. 73
Using ODBC to connect to ASA .............................................. 73
Using ODBC to connect to ASE .............................................. 74
Using ODBC from other client applications ............................. 75
Configuring Open Client................................................................. 75
Index ............................................................................................................................................. 79