IIS versions vary with different versions of Windows OS, such as Windows 2003 comes with IIS 6 and Windows 2008 comes with IIS 7. Here, we discuss the integration of IIS 7 with Tomcat 7, but before we proceed, there are some sets of configuration which we need to configure to make sure the integration works well.
The prerequisites for integration are:
.NET 3.5 should be installed on the server
The new site with a common virtual directory for IIS and Tomcat. We need to create a website, which accepts the request from the user and redirects it to Tomcat 7 internally. In order to integrate IIS with Tomcat, we have to create a common virtual directory for IIS and Tomcat, and then share the module.
isapi_redirect.dll:
It is a dynamic linking library for the Windows platform.isapi_redirect iplugin:
It is used to redirect the request from IIS to Tomcat.workers.properties:
It should have all the definitions for the configuration, such as the hostname...