WebLogic Server 6.1 + IIS5

[beanewbie]

Greetings,

I'm very new to weblogic and am already facing problems...

I have 2 servers. 1 is a webserver runnning Win2K + IIS5. The other is an application server which is running BEA WebLogic Server 6.1, & other apps.

I'm trying to allow access from the internet to the webserver to the weblogic server. I understand that I need to configure certain properties as defined in the ISAPI documentation. Here's what I've done:

1. Copied the iisproxy.dll & iisforward.dll to the /system32 directory.
2. Configured the IIS.
2. Created an iisproxy.ini file in the same directory with the following lines:
weblogichost=???
weblogicport=???
wlforward=/
DEBUG=ON

Now, being totally ignorant of weblogic, I don't know what to put in the weblogichost, weblogicport, & wlforward parameters. I've read the documentation but still don't understand what I'm supposed to put in.

Could someone please explain to me as though I'm a complete idiot what I'm supposed to fill in & where can I find that info...

Been cracking my head on this for about a week now. Please help urgent.

Thanks in advance.

 

[wushutwist]

First off the parameters are case sensitive. They should be:

WebLogicHost=IP Address of your WebLogic Server
WebLogicPort=Port that the Server is listening on (7001 default)
WlForwardPath= see below

WlForwardPath is needed only if you are proxing by path. Basically this is where you put the items that you want proxied to WebLogic.

Example. Assume we want to proxy a servlet named TestServlet and all requests to /weblogic/*. Our WlForwardPath would look like this:

WlForward=/TestServlet,/weblogic

That's it. It is actually really easy to configure though make sure you restart the entire IIS Server including the Admin Server or the changes won't take effect. To be on the safe side I would just cycle the box.

 

[beanewbie]

Thanks for the swift response. I'll give it a try. If I'm not sure of the weblogicport, is there any way I can find out? I can't get access to the admin console. All I was given was instructions to install the wl server which has been preconfigured.

Can I use the IP address (e.g. 100.1.1.100) or the machine name (Application)? do I need to include the domain name (Application.abc.com.my)?

Sorry but I still don't get it. I was under the impression that wlforward was if my URL was

http://www.abc.com.my

and the application was in the /weblogic directory, then I would put wlforward=/weblogic. Is this right? I'm so lost!

 

[beanewbie]

Okay... I've set the following:

weblogichost=IP address
weblogicport=7001

I now get a new error message:

Message from the ISAPI plugin:
No backend server available for connection: timed out after 20 seconds.

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Build date/time: Nov 8 2001

Any ideas?

 

[beanewbie]

Hello again,

I've finally managed to get the thing working. Apparently, IIS & wl server were both using port 80. Changed the wl server port to 85 and everything works fine.

Thanks again for all your help.