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
Overview of vFabric Web Server 3
VMware vFabric Suite 5.3 3
2. Overview of vFabric Web Server
vFabric Web Server is the Web server and load-balancing component of VMware vFabric Suite. vFabric Web Server 5.3 is based
on Apache HTTP Server version 2.2.
In addition to the standard features of Apache HTTP Server, vFabric Web Server provides the following benefits:
• Ability to easily install multiple instances of vFabric Web Server running on a single computer.
• Scalable management of multiple Web sites and servers; you can run and manage hundreds of instances of vFabric Web
Server.
• Support for heterogeneous environments (32- and 64-bit architectures): Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Solaris,
Ubuntu, and Microsoft Windows. vFabric Web Server can be updated and patched across all servers at once. See Supported
Configurations and System Requirements for details.
Subtopics
Information for International Users
Complete Packages and Modules in vFabric Web Server 5.3
Differences Between vFabric Web Server and vFabric ERS
Information for International Customers
If you require multi-byte character-set support, VMware recommends that you follow these guidelines for using multi-byte
filenames and multi-byte characters in configuration files. These guidelines provide the most flexibility and most consistent
results:
• Use the UTF-8 encoding when running a Unix terminal or Windows PowerShell. For example, to set this encoding on Unix,
you can use the following environment variable:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
On Windows, you can run the following command in your PowerShell window:
PS prompt> chcp 65001
Important: The preceding Windows command does not always work as expected on pre-R2 versions of Windows 2008. For
this reason, VMware strongly recommends that you install vFabric Web Server on Windows 2008 R2.
Setting your encoding to UTF-8 results in better display of httpctl output, easier examination of the log files, and so on.
• Edit and save all vFabric Web Server configuration files, such as conf/httpd.conf, in UTF-8 format. This improves the
legibility of the Web Server access and error log files.
Complete Packages and Modules in vFabric Web Server 5.3
This section lists the complete contents of vFabric Web Server 5.3.
This document describes features and functionality for vFabric Web Sever 5.3. For general information about new
features in Apache HTTP Server 2.2, see the Apache Web site.
• Apache Web Server httpd 2.2.24
• Apache mod_ftp 0.9.6