Martin, You caught me on an interesting day. I have an interesting/jaded response.
Short answer: They work nice together when the configuration is correct, and you know what you're doing, and nobody messes with anything. Although, I don't think I really need IIS + Tomcat for what we are doing. Long answer: For several years, we have had a GIS website running under IIS + Tomcat, using the isapi_redirect.dll, and that is because we followed the vendor's recommendations. IIS = port 80, Tomcat = port 8080. Try deviating from their specs and you lose tech support, that is unless you can get someone to assist you in their user forums. Their user forums are not the best place to ask Tomcat related questions - *simply my opinion. IIS + Tomcat makes my head spin. The reason being is that when something is wrong with my servlet or the vendor's webapp, I waste time figuring out whether the isapi_redirect.dll is not working or whether I have some other issue. Case in point, today. My site was down for about 5 hours this morning. I finally tracked it back to: I implemented Tomcat, someone else implements IIS. I upgraded Tomcat, but IIS still had hold of the isapi_redirect.dll in my old tomcat_6.0.20 bin and that tomcat was not running. Ok, tried to fix that. Edit the registry for the isapi dll point to new tomcat bin, restart the server, no luck. Ok, then maybe isapi dll I had is not compatible with newer Tomcat? Chase that question down.... This whole process wastes time when I don't have it to waste. I ended up turning IIS off and now run my site using Tomcat only. Everything seems to be working fine with just Tomcat serving up static HTTP. I don't even notice a difference. I still have a lot to learn about using Tomcat. http://planning.maricopa.gov Leo -----Original Message----- From: Martin Gainty [mailto:mgai...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:37 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Isapi_redirect.dll no problem..you're the 3rd person on the list (in as many weeks) that has requested operational details for IIS<->Tomcat configuration would appreciate hearing how these 2 technology stacks work together, Martin ______________________________________________ Please do not modify or alter this transmission. Thank You > From: leodona...@mail.maricopa.gov > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 09:49:41 -0700 > Subject: RE: Isapi_redirect.dll > > Found it. > > http://www.gossipcheck.com/mirrors/apache/tomcat/tomcat-connectors/jk/ > binaries/win32/jk-1.2.30/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leo Donahue - PLANDEVX [mailto:leodona...@mail.maricopa.gov] > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 9:48 AM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: Isapi_redirect.dll > > http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/webserver_howto/iis.html > "A pre-built version of the ISAPI redirector server plugin, > isapi_redirect.dll, is available under the win32/i386 directory of > tomcat-connectors distribution" > I'm blind. I downloaded the zip and I don't see it in there anywhere. > http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi > > Leo > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
