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
Creating and Using vFabric Web
Server Instances
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6. Creating and Using vFabric Web Server Instances
To start using vFabric Web Server, you explicitly create a new instance after you install it. An instance is not created for you by
default.
Subtopics
Description of vFabric Web Server Instances
Create vFabric Web Server Instances
newserver Prompts and Command Reference
Unix: Start and Stop vFabric Web Server Instances
Windows: Start and Stop vFabric Web Server Instances
httpdctl Reference
Serve a Sample HTML File from Your vFabric Web Server Instance
Description of vFabric Web Server Instances
A vFabric Web Server instance is a complete, discrete HTTP server configuration.
You can create multiple instances that you can run simultaneously on the same computer if you do not use the same ports in
two different instances. For example, the default HTTP listening port on Unix is 80, and only one instance on any computer is
allowed to communicate on port 80 at any one time. So if you wanted to have two vFabric Web Server instances running at the
same time on the same Unix computer, you configure one instance to use a port other than 80.
After you create an instance, its corresponding directory contains subdirectories that in turn contain all the data required to run
a given vFabric Web Server instance. This data includes configuration information and all other data that is associated with that
instance's configuration. For example, assume you installed vFabric Web Server in /opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server
and create an instance called myserver:
prompt$ cd /opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server/myserver
prompt$ ls
bin cgi-bin conf ftpdocs htdocs logs proxy ssl var
The conf directory contains the vFabric Web Server configuration files, such as httpd.conf. The bin directory contains the
startup script used to start and stop the myserver instance (httpdctl. Each of these directories is specific to the myserver
instance. Each instance you create will have a similar set of directories.
Create vFabric Web Server Instances
You create a new vFabric Web Server instance with the newserver command. The command creates a new directory that
contains the instance-specific configuration files.
The newserver command format depends on your operating system:
• newserver : Perl script for Unix operating systems.
• newserver.ps1: Powershell script for Windows operating systems.
The command-line options for the two flavors are exactly the same. Where appropriate, the following procedure calls out the
different usage depending on whether you are on Unix or Windows.