Installation guide

Installing and configuring an Apache Web server plug-in

EAServer

3 Copy libraries from EAServer to your Web server.

4 Make an entry for the Web host in the /etc/hosts file.

For information about the Apache Web server, see

Apache Core Features at

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html

Edit the

httpd.conf

configuration file

The httpd.conf file:

• Defines and loads the redirector module – the

LoadModule directive

informs the Apache Web server of the name and location of the redirector

module to load when the Web server starts.

• Identifies the redirector configuration file – the redirector configuration

file contains the mappings of incoming requests to the EAServer HTTP

listener to which they are redirected.

• Defines the context paths – the

LocationMatch directive defines the context

paths that inform the Web server which requests are directed to the

redirector. If no context path is provided, the request is serviced by the

Web server.

Sample httpd.conf file

The following lines illustrate a sample httpd.conf file.

LoadModule easredirector_module libexec/libjeas_mod.so

EASConfigFile WEB_SERVER_HOME/conf/conn_config

ServerName www.myhost.com

SetHandler eas-handler

</LocationMatch>

At the end of the WEB_SERVER_HOME/conf/httpd.conf file, add the

directives defined in the sample above, where:

•

LoadModule defines and loads the redirector module.

•

EASConfigFile identifies the file that contains the redirector configuration

parameters.

•

ServerName identifies the host machine on which the Web server runs.

Specify the host using either the IP address or the fully qualified domain

name; for example, www.foo.com. If you do not set this directive, the

redirector continues to run, but you might see this warning in the

connector log file:

[Tue Jun 18 15:19:12 2002] [alert] httpd: Could not