Web Server

[franksoprano]

Has anyone used their RS6K as a Web Server?

 

[AIXSPadmin]

I am an AIX system admin for a Fortune 500 company and we have our extranet and intranets running iPlanet Web Servers and WebSphere on RS/6000 SP nodes. Our Intranet has iPlanet and WebSphere on each node and is running with Network Dispatcher for load balancing and failover. Our Extranet has two nodes for the iPlanet Web Server and uses OSE Remote for WebSphere on two other nodes in a DMZ and the Extranet also uses Network Dispatcher. Our total node count for web servers and app servers in production, development and lab is about 18.

 

[BobMCT]

Frank;

I have been a long time AIX advocate and have been running a home banking service on AIX with the obsolete Fasttrack web server since early 1997. This platform has been an outstanding server for this task. It performs well, its extremely reliable and once its configured correctly and settled in it will literally run itself for years (no kidding).

We are now up to several AIX servers and our plan is to get them all up to AIX 5.1L and use Apache as the server.

So, to answer your question, yes, we are running a webserver on AIX.

 

[franksoprano]

BobMFDC,

I appreciate your answer I have a few extra 43P's sitting around here and I was interested in using a few of them as web servers to host some web pages.. How does apache compare to other server software out there? the reason why I asked if anyone used their RS6K as a Web Server is because most of them time when you hear people talking about web servers they are referring to a Linux box.. I am currently running 4.3.3 myself and I am going to migrate them to 5L since i have it sitting here on my desk..

 

[AIXSPadmin]

Apache is the most popular web server there is, and iPlanet is a relatively non-existent player in the game with only about 1% of total servers. Apache is an excellent web server and I run one at home on my BSD box. At the company I work for, we are moving from iPlanet on our RS/6000 SP nodes to Apache (well IBMs HTTP Server - which is the Apache engine) on Linux on Intel (Yippee - please note sarcasm). The reason is to free up the SP nodes for larger workloads, which makes since; our extranet web servers just sit there with no load and that is all they do. A smaller RS/6000 would be more appropriate than SP thin nodes as we currently use for the extranet. However, we are staying on the SP nodes for our intranet which has the iPlanet and WebSphere app server installed locally on each node, since WebSphere takes quite a bit of resources it functions well on the SP.

Good luck on your move to serving web content with Apache on AIX/6000.

 

[Butterfly123]

Well, even I am running Apache 1.3.20 on an IBM RS6000SP server here and its been running quite well! I didnt even need to restart Apache since past 6 months!

I must say that Apache is quite good, light and modular webserver!

Regds,

- Hemant

 

[josonchen]

hello everyone!
I just install apache(1.3.27) on my rs6000/f50,OS is aix4.3.3 .
when i execute "./configure --perfix=/httpd"(which httpd is my web root,had been make),
there is something wrong with it,the message is :

......
+ using builtin Expat
Could not load program /apache/apache_1.3.27/src/helpers/testfunc:
Dependent module libc.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.
Could not load module libc.a(shr.o).
Error was: No such file or directory
Could not load program /apache
.......
thanks for any help!

 

[lrosicky]

Yes