WebSphere dependencies

The rpm package of WebSphere for IBM HTTP Server has a dependency

on IBM HTTP Server 1.3.6; so, ensure that IBM HTTP Server 1.3.6 has

already been installed.

Figure 31 shows our installation of the WebSphere application server

following the installations steps documented before.

[root@bdtest2 /opt]# export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk118

[root@bdtest2 /opt]# rpm  i /mnt/cdrom/was/IBMWebAS core 2.03 1.i386.rp

m

A copy of the configuration file was made and is located at /opt/IBMWebA

S/properties/bootstrap.properties.bak

[root@bdtest2 /opt]# rpm  i /mnt/cdrom/was/IBMWebAS ibm http 2.03 1.i38

6.rpm

A backup of your httpd.conf file has been made and is being saved at

/opt/IBMHTTPServer/conf/httpd.conf

Figure 31. Installing WebSphere application server

4. Finally, to ensure that JSP pages can be compiled, we change the

ownership of the pagecompile directory, located in subdirectory

/opt/IBMWebAS/servlets, to have an owner and group owner of nobody.

We use the

chown

command in the following form:

chown nobody.nobody /opt/IBMWebAS/servlets/pagecompile

2.4.5.2 Verifying WebSphere installation

We verify that WebSphere has been installed successfully by:

  Visually verifying the IBM HTTP Server configuration files.

  Visually verifying the WebSphere properties file.

  Using a Web browser to verify WebSphere is operational.

Verifying the IBM HTTP Server configuration files

The IBM HTTP Web server has a configuration called httpd.conf, located in

/opt/IBMHTTPServer/conf. Visually inspect this file and check for the

following:

  LoadModule_app_server_module

There should be a LoadModule definition for the app_server_module to

load WebSphere in the list of dynamic shared object support modules

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