RSLD? A Really Simple Linux Deployment for WebObjects
I was expecting this to be much harder than it was. I read some of the pages out there on getting WebObjects installed onto Linux systems and looking at them just made my eyes cross. WebObjects is just java, isn't it?I think the hardest part of this whole process was getting the right version of java onto the Linux box. I started with a RedHat-based system with java 1.4 as the default. Getting 1.5 onto it was a bit of a chore. Mac OS X just, you know, has stuff on it already. The Darwin ports stuff is there for other things. But a lot of things are just not that hard. Ok, working 15+ years at Apple may have given me a bit too much familiarity with it, but I doubt it.
Linux is just quirky. It can be nice. But it can also be deeply frustrating.
But, surprisingly, getting WebObjects to work on Linux was not hard.
First, I went to the
/System/Library/Frameworks directory on my Mac. Then I just tarred up the Java* frameworks (sans JavaVM and such). Then I ftp-ed them over, created a /System/Library/Frameworks directory on the Linux system and slammed them down.Then there was the question of what to do about a WOAdaptor. I tend to delete my
/Developer/Examples contents on my various systems, so I could not put my hands on the adaptor sources. But then I realized I might not need them. I am not deploying huge apps. Not building a business on it yet. I just wanted to stop trying to deploy WO apps from my laptop.I had started up my app by doing:
./myApp -WOPort 55555 &So, I added some lines to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpf.conf file:
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /cgi-bin/WebObjects/myApp.woa http://myHost:55555/cgi-bin/WebObjects/myApp.woa
ProxyPass /WebObjects/myApp.woa http://myHost:55555/cgi-bin/WebObjects/myApp.woa
ProxyPass /WebObjects/myApp/ http://myHost:55555/cgi-bin/WebObjects/myApp.woa
ProxyPassReverse /cgi-bin/WebObjects/myApp.woa/ http://myHost:55555/cgi-bin/WebObjects/myApp.woa/
And it just worked! Sweet. Wait. Hold on a second. I know what you are going to ask. "Does Apple support this?" OMG, I had not thought of that! Do they? Well, you know what. I do not care whether they support it or not! So, do not ask!
:-)
posted by Tau Central @ 10:40 PM
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