What is the most common way to front end tomcat with iis6

Question

I want to run a few tomcat web apps behind IIS 6. I was wondering what the most common way that this is accomplished. I have done this with Apache using the AJP connector and using HTTP proxypass. Is this done the same way with IIS 6? Thank you.

Answer 1

IIS-Tomcat redirector

You can use the IIS-Tomcat Redirector, which is the commonly used plugin to achieve this.

Tomcat has a very neat documentation on How-To do this, which can be found at:

http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc-archive/jk2/jk/iishowto.html

and

http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/webserver_howto/iis.html

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Alternative Quickfix

Alternatively, you can use the MSI setup provided at the link below, "which allows you to skip steps 1 through 7 in the "Configuring the ISAPI Redirector" section of this page"

http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat_and_IIS_Howto

Hope that helps