Deploying war files on iplanet web server 6.0

Question

Hello All,
I tried to deploy an war file on iplanet web server 6.0 using both command line wdeploy and iplanet webserver browser based admin tool. Both the times it did say successfully deployed. I checked the WEB-INF files and it does contain all class files..But the problem is when I try to post a form to one of the class files the error log says as if it cannot find the class file.(I tried the sample app HelloWorld supplied by vendor)
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05/Mar/2002:13:19:14] config (13777): for host xx.xx.xx.xx trying to POST /samples/helloworld/GreeterServlet, handle-processed reports: The request method is not applicable to this requested resource.
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any help in this regards is appreciated
Thanks
sudhir

Answer 1

Hello,
I got few steps to deploy the WAR file, if you followed the same steps and got the error then ignore this else try with this steps.
a) Set your environment variable IWS_SERVER_HOME to your server_root directory.
b) Add the server_root/bin/https/httpsadmin/bin directory to your classpath.
c) Configure your virtual server for web applications.
From the Server Manager page, select the VirtualServerClass tab, select a Class, and click the Manage button.
Select a Virtual Server and go to the Java Web Apps Settings page for that virtual server. Make sure that the virtual server has Web Apps State turned On, and web-apps.xml is the name of Web Apps File.
To extract the sample WAR file HelloWorld.war in server_root/plugins/servlets/examples/web-apps/HelloWorld, use the wdeploy command as follows:
wdeploy deploy -u /hello -i server.iplanet.com -v testvs -d
/iws60/https-server.mydomain.com/testvs/web-apps/hello
/iws60/plugins/servlets/examples/web-apps/HelloWorld/HelloWorld.war
The syntax for the command is as follows:
wdeploy deploy -u uri_path -i instance -v vs_id [-d directory] war_file
uri_path Specify the URI prefix (a path to access the web application from the browser).
instance Specify the server instance name. (Note: Do not include "https" in the front.)
vs_id Specify the Virtual Server name as it appears on the Manage Virtual Servers page.
directory Specify a directory to extract WAR files. If this directory doesn't exist already, it will be created for you now.
war_file Specify the name of the WAR file.
If the WAR file is extracted successfully, the message "web application deploy successful" appears at the command line.
For verification, go to the /iws60/https-server.iplanet.com/testvs/web-apps/hello directory. It should have the following contents:
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index.jsp
META-INF
WEB-INF/
web.xml
/classes/
HelloWorldServlet.class
HelloWorldServlet.java
SnoopServlet.class
SnoopServlet.java
In the server_instance/config directory, the web-apps.xml file should have the following entry:
<vs>
<web-app uri="/hello"
dir="/iws60/https-server.iplanet.com/testvs/web-apps/hello"/>
</vs>
Restart the server instance from the command line or go to the admin GUI and apply configuration changes to the server instance.
Now when you access the webserver instance in your browser, the Error log of that server instance will record successful initialization of the web application environment(web-apps.xml) for the virtual server(vs name). You can access the web application from a browser as follows:
http://server.Mydomain.com:80/hello/index.jsp
or:
http://server.Mydomain.com/hello/
The syntax is as follows:
http://vs_urlhost[:vs_port]/uri_path/[index_page]
Thanks
Selva