I have OpenBD running beautifully on IIS 7 with Tomcat and with both an MSSQL and PostgreSQL backend. I thought about redoing it all from scratch and putting together a step by step tutorial. Would there be any interest in that?
It was nothing close to easy, honestly. The main problem are little bugs or incomplete documentation for Tomcat. I ended up having to research every aspect of the setup. A quick synopsis goes something like this. 1. You need to install a JDK not a JRE. 2. You run the tomcat windows service installer. There is a bug here and you'll get an error which if you search on will lead you to a long discussion about how moving a file to a different folder fixes it. 3. Download isapi_redirect.dll from the Apache Tomcat site. 4. Create three config files to proxy IIS to Tomcat....worker, uniworker, etc 5. You need to add the isapi_redirect folder as a virtual directory and add the isapi_redirect to your IIS site settings. 6. You need to modify the tomcat server config to add proxies for your sites. I might be missing something and this has no details, but it's a good idea of what is involved. I'm sure the preconfigured Jetty install is much easier, but I wanted to go through all this to understand and see for myself how all the parts interwork with each other and because there is plenty of documentation and help available for Tomcat compared to Jetty should I need it down the road. Deploying and configuring OpenBD is the easy part. Takes a couple minutes once you get the Tomcat manager to display. And OpenBD has been running without a hitch since I first set it up. On Apr 20, 3:02 pm, DetailsDotAt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been running free BD7 on an IIS webserver for about two years > with small amounts of traffic (development mostly) without issue. I'm > looking to get caught up with the times before I roll out a major app > developed on this infrastructure. I'm currently using Windows 2003 > WebServer + IIS + BD7 + MS-SQL > > I love it and it works like a champ. > > So I'm looking around trying to figure out how to get OpenBD to run > and I'm lost. > > I can find hardly any documentation on IIS, is it even supported? Is > there not a clear cut how-to? I love this BD product, don't even want > to consider moving to ADOBE (YAY NewAtlanta!), and will right the darn > how-to for IIS for the community if necessary. > > If not I might have to savour my lone BD7 installation file and make > backups of it so I can keep using it in the future. > > I am googling all this, but not finding much. It appears everyone is > installing Jetty (but my research says that's not a viable alternative > for a busy site built on IIS). > > I'm not familiar at all. > > My goal is to setup a vmWare based Windows 2003 (not comfortable with > 2008 yet) virtual server, prepackaged with IIS/openBD/SQL-Server > Express and configured for a single default site. Is this feasible? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
