5.2
Table Of Contents
- vFabric Web Server Installation and Configuration
- Table of Contents
- 1. About vFabric Web Server Installation and Configuration
- 2. Overview of vFabric Web Server
- 3. Installing vFabric Web Server
- Installation Note for vFabric Suite Customers
- Available Distribution Packages
- RHEL: Install vFabric Web Server from an RPM
- Unix: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-Extracting ZIP
- Windows: Install vFabric Web Server from a ZIP File
- Activate a vFabric Web Server Local License
- Description of the vFabric Web Server Installation
- 4. Upgrading vFabric Web Server
- 5. Creating and Using vFabric Web Server Instances
- 6. Configuring vFabric Web Server Instances
- Using Sample Configuration Files to Enable Features and Modify Configuration
- Configure Load Balancing Between Two or More tc Runtime Instances
- Configure SSL Between vFabric Web Server and vFabric tc Server
- Configure tc Runtime Instances to Use SSL
- Configure the vFabric Web Server Instance to Use SSL
- Restrict Communication With tc Runtime Instances to Known Clients
- Update the Web Server Configuration for HTTPS Connections to tc Runtime Instances
- Configure vFabric Web Server to Authenticate Itself Using a Specific Client Certificate
- Configure BMX for Monitoring vFabric Web Server Instances
- 7. Security Information
- 8. Managing Planned and Unplanned Outages
- 9. Additional Documentation
Configuring vFabric Web Server
Instances
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6. Configuring vFabric Web Server Instances
The default configuration of a newly created vFabric Web Server instance is fairly simple. Although the configuration is likely
adequate for your needs, sometimes you might need to further configure the instance to enable one of its many useful features,
such as load-balancing between two or more tc Runtime instances. This chapter provides some information to get you started.
For complete documentation on how to configure vFabric Web Server instances, see Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2
Documentation. Because vFabric Web Server is based on Apache HTTP server, the general configuration documentation on the
Apache Web site applies to vFabric Web Server as well.
Subtopics
Using the Sample Configuration Files to Enable Features and Modify Configuration
Configure Load Balancing Between Two or More tc Server Instances
Configure SSL Between vFabric Web Server and vFabric tc Server
Configure BMX for Monitoring vFabric Web Server Instances
Using Sample Configuration Files to Enable Features and Modify
Configuration
All vFabric Web Server instances include sample configuration files that you can use to enable extra features in the server
instance or to modify its default configuration. These files are located in the INSTANCE-DIR/conf/extra directory, where
INSTANCE-DIR refers to the instance directory, such as /opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server/myserver.
For example, the httpd-info.conf sample configuration file shows how you can get information about the requests being
processed by the vFabric Web Server instance as well as information about the configuration of the instance. The httpd-
ssl.conf file shows how to provide SSL support. It contains the configuration directives to instruct the instance how to serve
pages over an HTTPS connection.
For your convenience, the main vFabric Web Server configuration file for a particular instance (INSTANCE-DIR/conf/
httpd.conf) already includes commented-out lines for including each sample configuration file. For example, the line to
include the httpd-info.conf configuration file is as follows:
#Include conf/extra/httpd-info.conf
To include the configuration file, simply uncomment the Include directive:
Include conf/extra/httpd-info.conf
You do not have to use Include in this way; you can simply copy and paste the information in a sample configuration file into
the main configuration file.
The sample configuration files are full of comments on how exactly to enable the feature they configure. Be sure to read these
comments before you proceed further.
What to do next
• Restart the vFabric Web Server instance for the configuration changes to take effect. For example, on Unix:
prompt# cd /opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server/myserver
prompt# bin/httpdctl restart
Configure Load Balancing Between Two or More tc Runtime Instances
You can configure a vFabric Web Server instance to perform simple load balancing between two or more tc Server instances.