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So are you saying that Reverse Proxy won't work?  You've tried this and know
that it doesn't work?

Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schadd Gray" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] RPGIV - CGI and Multiple Partitions


> Shannon,
> I had a similar situation on a client machine.  Each partition is
virtually
> a separate AS400.  There are ways to call the programs on the other
> partitions, but not to get a CGI program to communicate with the HTTP
server
> properly.  This works in the JSP world because you are accessing the JSP
> source and the Java server is creating a runnable version on the web
> partition.  Data access is then handled by JDBC back to the primary
> partition.
>
> The only solution I can think of for your situation is to put the programs
> on the HTTP partition and create connections to the database on the
primary
> partition.
>
> (You could always change over to our RSP server, which keeps your code
> primarily RPG and can be used across LPARs.) <smile>
>
> Schadd Gray
> Damon Technologies, Inc.
> www.damontech.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:12 PM
> Subject: [WEB400] RPGIV - CGI and Multiple Partitions
>
>
> We have recently acquired a new multi-partition iSeries. We use one
> partition for our development and we plan on using the other two
partitions
> for the following:
>
> Partion 2 - Production web serving
> Partion 3 - Firewall
>
> Now, in my mind, I'm thinking that wasting a whole partition on a firewall
> is beyond stupid, but....that was an executive decision so there ya go.
And
> anyway, it may be a great idea and I'm just too ignorant to see it.
That's
> always a possibility. :-)
>
> In any event....we had designed a web-based system using RPGIV and CGI,
> mostly because we already had some other software using a similar
technique
> so "time-to-go-live" was greatly reduced, but primarily because if I'd
> written it as JSP's or servlets (I was wanting to do it as JSPs) then no
one
> but me would ever know how to maintain it.  SO as an RPGIV/CGI
application,
> our traditional RPG programmers could work on it if they had to.
>
> So...that's the preamble...here's teh question:
>
> The powers that be want to use the third partition on this new iSeries as
> both a firewall and as the HTTP server for the application. Now, if I were
> using JSPs, it would be a simple matter of serving up the JSPs from
wherever
> they reside to the HTTP serving box on the third partition.
>
> However, since we are talking RPGIV and CGI...I'm not really clear on if
it
> is even possible to store the CGI programs on one partition and serve them
> up via an HTTP Server on another partition?  Is it?   I would try this
> myself but at this point, we do not yet have the third partition running
> (it's missing some hardware that got left out of the original
> configuration).  So...I'm trying to get a handle on it, get my wits about
> it, to understand if running an HTTP server on the 3rd partition would
even
> be able to see the CGI programs and files on the 2nd partition.
>
> Any thoughts? Suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Shannon O'Donnell
>
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