My customer has 2 Windows Server 2019.
On both of them, an instance of a SOAP Web Service is running.
URLs:
https://host1.domainname.com/SOAPService
and
https://host2.domainname.com/SOAPService
Now, the requirement of the customer is to provide a single, unique URL that the clients can use to consume the SOAP WebService(s).
I read through several websites and if I got it right, I need a tool that is called "reserve proxy"... Using this tool, clients can access the webservice by using an URL such as https://host.domainname.com/SOAPService and the tool will automatically route the request to the available webservice.
Correct?
I also have an architectural question:
On which machine do I have to run such a Reserve Proxy?
Is it on host1 or host2 or do I need a dedicated machine (like a supervisor)?
If it is a dediciated machine, how can I apply high availability of this Reverse Proxy? E.g. is it possible to run 2 Reserve Proxies in parallel on different machines? Which tool could afford this?
Thanks
What's the difference between a regular OPC UA server and a Discovery Server such as LDS? I know that they are both UA Servers but what's the difference between them? What I could figure out from reading the specification is that all servers have a discovery URL where you discover the server with no security and a endpoint URL which is the "real" URL that you use to make a connection to the server. However, I have trouble understanding the registerServer() and findServers() for the UA server vs the discovery server. It seems like they both do the same thing?
Yes, every server supports part of the Discovery Services, such as FindServers (locates server addresses) and GetEndpoints (lists available endpoints = security modes, in practice). But the normal server only provides information about itself.
The Local Discovery Server (LDS) supports also RegisterServer and can provide information of several servers (in the same computer or local network).
I'm trying to host web pages using Win Server 2016. Currently, I have Jira and my personal web (IIS) servers. Using AWS, I currently have "myec2.com:port1" and "myec2.com/port2" running fine. And I'm planning to buy a domain "myname.com" to be connected to "myec2.long.name.com"
What I hope to do is "myname.com/jira" and "myname.com/mypage" or "jira.myname.com" and "mypage.myname.com" can redirect to Jira server and the IIS server. Is there a way I can achieve this goal?
Thanks in advance.
If you buy a domain like myname.com you will be able to configure any number of sub-domains such as jira.myname.com or mypage.myname.com as you like.
Usually what you would do is point those sub-domains to your server's IP then handle requests to those domains by setting up a web server (like apache or nginx) and configuring a virtual host (apache) or a server block (nginx) for each one of those sub-domains.
What is the difference between Report manager URL and web service URL in ssrs 2008 r2?
The Web Service URL page to configure or modify the URL used to access the report server.
The Report Manager URL page to configure or modify the URL used to access Report Manager.
The report server is the central component of a Reporting Services installation. It consists of a pair of core processors plus a collection of special-purpose extensions that handle authentication, data processing, rendering, and delivery operations. Processors are the hub of the report server.
Report Manager is an ASP.NET web application that provides report management/viewing capabilities for a Reporting Services instance configured in native mode.
For more information please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188133.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181174.aspx
I would like to know the difference between IBM HTTP Server and Wepsphere Application Server. Also i am planning to use WAS. Do i still need the IBM HTTP Server?
From here:-
IBM HTTP Server
IBM® HTTP Server is a full-featured web server that is included with
other products such as IBM WebSphere® Application Server at no charge.
You can use this web server for projects that do not warrant the
expense of a priced and supported HTTP server. The IBM HTTP Server is
based on the Apache HTTP Server and provides a rich set of Apache
features in addition to IBM enhancements.
From here:-
Wepsphere Application Server
IBM® WebSphere® Application Server offers options for a faster, more
flexible Java application server runtime environment with enhanced
reliability and resiliency. It supports single server environments and
medium-sized configurations, as well as dynamic web applications
requiring web tier clustering over multiple application server
instances.
Do i still need the IBM HTTP Server?
Wiki has the answer for it:-
It works with a number of Web servers including Apache HTTP Server,
Netscape Enterprise Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services
(IIS), IBM HTTP Server for i5/OS, IBM HTTP Server for z/OS, and IBM
HTTP Server for AIX/Linux/Microsoft Windows/Solaris. It uses port 9060
for connection as the default administration port and port 9080 as the
default website publication port. In case you install more WebSphere
instances these values will be changed.
A http server is used for routing web requests to a WAS in a typical enterprise scenario. If you are building small apps, and do not need ejbs, just use the http server. If you need ejbs, just use WAS. However, if you need functionality like routing requests to WAS because you do not want the user to hit the WAS directly for security reasons, then use HTTP in front of WAS.
WebSphere is an implementation of J2EE (originally Java 2 but versions handle up to J6EE). This varies from a normal web server in that the latter typically had the task of running scripts or programs using operations that were quite expensive for CPU load. Modern web servers do not have as much penalty but Java based solutions still have their advantages.
For test/dev environments, one does not need to have a web server in front. One can go directly to a WebSphere port (often port 9080) that provides a Java web implementation and not have the administrative burden of the care and feeding of a web server. On the other hand, IBM recommends using a web server for production (especialy for larger production loads). If one does use a web server, there are several that are supported. IBM HTTPS Server is a blue-washed version of Apache (there are some modules that are not supported but there are also lots of extra features to bind easily with WAS).
All the answers are good so let me give my cents ,
Websphere as other java applications, was made to work with dinamic contents .
apache or IHS that is apache IBM plugins can handle with all kinds of http/https requests , static , dinamic , proxy ,cache at the client tags, balance and so on ...
just using apache over java aplications is not the best ,
the best is allow apache handle all static downloads without call it from application server ,
like images and fixed htmls and left application server handle the just dinamic contents .
at this way we can optimize the environment , so development should create a pattern to dispose static and dinamic at different virtual direct like /jsp for dinamic and the rest as static , if not apache cache can be used instead for not overload the application server .
to make the story short , apache is so powerful ans can help a lot the application server sparing the work , a simple and effective usage is done to forward the port using default port 80/443 for http/https instead usual high ports on java application servers , make the apache deliver https is a best option too , instead left java application server care of it , so there is a lot of reasons to use Apache or IHS in front of application servers.