Re: Re: V5R3 - Original Servers gone, completely!

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From: <rob@xxxxxxxxx>

> Failing that, does anyone know what is done by the conversion?  Is it
> simply converting the cern configuration file to an apache one?  Didn't
> someone just post that they could find the file on their V5R3 machine, but
> they had to do some special option?  What I am wondering is, could the
> file be moved over to the V5R3 machine, converted and then the converted
> file be moved back to the older machine and tested there too?

Rob,

We were using the original server and recently had to convert a cusotmer
to Apache on V5R3. In the past I had a standard original server config
that I uploaded from machine to machine as needed. Since it is a simple
text file, that worked well for me in the past.

Some observations on the changes in V5R3 and the conversion:

1. The old WRKHHTPCFG command no longer works. The only way to config
    a server is through the web interface. Which sucks if you are not on
site.

2. The original server config used 2 text files QATMHINSTC/mbr and
    QATMHTTPC/mbr in lib QUSYSYS. The Apache config uses one file in
    QUSRSYS - QATMINSTC. The actual server configuration lives in the IFS.

    (By default in www/servername/conf/httpd.conf)

3. The IBM supplied conversion process did not work for me. Oh sure, it
converted
    some basic directives, but the pieces that I really needed such as the
map, pass
    and exec directives did not convert. I had to do that by hand after a
lot of research.

I would think that you could copy the 2 files from the original server
config over to
your V5R3 box, run the conversion and copy them back to the old box. Just
make
sure you create the right IFS directories and be prepared to do a lot of
research to
get the config right.

The good news is, the apache configuration seems to be a lot more flexible
with many
more options. It is getting those options right that takes time.

Kevin Barry
Tell Systems