IBM HTTP Server

IBM HTTP Server is based on the Apache HTTP Server (httpd.apache.org), developed by the Apache Software Foundation. In this section, we are going to install IBM HTTP Server (IHS), which will receive our web requests and allow a web application running on WAS to be served over port 80, as opposed to the web container port; for example, use port 80 instead of port 9080. The following diagram depicts the configuration we are going to achieve:

IBM HTTP Server

As shown in the preceding diagram, we will install IBM Http Server (IHS) and the WebSphere plugin to route HTTP requests to a single application server. In our example, we will be using the latest ...

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