5.3
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. Migrating Enterprise Ready Server to vFabric Web Server
- 6. Creating and Using vFabric Web Server Instances
- 7. 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
- Metrics
- 8. Security Information
- 9. Managing Planned and Unplanned Outages
- 10. Additional Documentation
Migrating Enterprise Ready Server to
vFabric Web Server
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• graceful
• configtest
• configtestssl
• graceful
• status
• install
• uninstall
• configtest
See httpdctl Reference.
Startup script command with SSL enabled To use SSL in an ERS instance you
configure and load an SSL module in
the httpsd.conf file, and you use
the startssl option when you run the
apache_startup script.
To use SSL in a vFabric Web Server
instance, you configure a SSL module in the
httpd.conf file and use the regular start
option when you run the httpdctl script.
Multi-process module (MPM) configuration You configure MPM in the
startup.properties file.
You configure MPM when you create a
vFabric Web Server instance. Use the
following option of the newserver command:
--mpm=worker|prefork|event (The
default value is worker.)
See newserver Prompts and Command
Reference.
If you need to modify MPM after creating
a server, change the value of the
default_mpm variable to worker, prefork,
or event by changing the following line in the
httpdctl script:
default_mpm="worker"
Migration Procedure
To migrate an Enterprise Ready Server installation to a vFabric Web Server installation:
1. Install vFabric Web Server on each host where you will run a vFabric Web Server instance. See Installing vFabric Web
Server.
2. Create a new vFabric Web server instance. See Creating and Using vFabric Web Server Instances.
If you specified mpm options in the Enterprise Ready Server startup.properties file, you must
specify the --mpm=worker|prefork|event option when creating the new Web server instance. See
Startup Scripts and newserver Prompts and Command Reference.
3. Make a backup copy of the default configuration file from the new vFabric Web Server instance. The file is in the following
location:
<Web Server instance>/conf/httpd.conf .
4. Copy the following file from the Enterprise Ready Server instance directory:
servers/<Web server instance>/conf/httpsd.conf
into the conf directory of your new vFabric Web Server instance and rename the file to httpd.conf.
5. Open the newly-copied httpd.conf configuration file in a text editor and modify all of the paths to point to the new Web
server instance. Make sure to change the following paths:
• ServerRoot property.