Re: RPGIV - CGI and Multiple Partitions

The proxy is a great idea.  Not one I had considered.  The only down side is
you are running two HTTP servers.

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 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] RPGIV - CGI and Multiple Partitions


> 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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