The WebSphere plugin
The WebSphere plugin provides the mechanism for IHS to route requests to WebSphere Application Server and holds configuration information which directs HTTP traffic to applications running in WAS.
The WebSphere plugin can be downloaded from the same IBM site we downloaded the WebSphere 7 Trial from. To download the plug-in use the following URL:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/was/
On the home page, at the time of the writing of this book, there is a link on the WAS home page which takes you to the plugin download.
Look for a download called WebServer Plugin for WebSphere Application Server for Linux. Once again, you will need to use the IBM user id you registered when you first downloaded the WebSphere 7 trial in Chapter 7. The name of the plugin installer tar file will be called trial_plugins_linux.ia32.tar.gz
. Download the TAR file and copy it to your Linux server into a folder called /apps/plugin_install
. The download will be very quick as the file...