User67910916 posted
I have two separate environments setup (dev and staging). Dev is fine and staging is having the problem.
In my dev envmt, I have successfully configured/setup IIS 6 on windows 2003 server (VM) with mod_jk ISAPI redirector dll (isapi_redirect-1.2.26.dll) and JBoss 4.2 (Tomcat 6). In this case, the IIS6 and JBoss AS are on one VM and another VM has
another instance of JBoss AS running. But I am able to successfully run the app hitting the other Jboss AS box (the one w/o the IIS on it). This is perfect.
The goal here is to setup a 2 node horz JBoss cluster with two IIS6 servers and two JBoss server and Windows NLB with mod_jk for load balancing and failover b/n IIS6 and Tomcat/JBoss.
We are using NTLM authentication with our JEE (JBoss Seam) application. In the IIS manager, default web site properties, authentication methods config box, I am using enable anonymous access (authenticated access checkboxes are all unchecked).
This works fine in dev. This config breaks the app (page cannot be displayed error) when I uncheck enable anon access and check integrated windows access. Our .NET apps use the latter setup.
In the staging IIS6, when I use enable anon access, and create an appropriate new local user with pswd, I am not able to use the same app. It's not the code as the EAR is the same, it's not the db as it works fine with Apache httpd in staging.
The root cause is somewhere in IIS config we think in staging. One difference is that in dev I have Default Web Site and jakarta virtual directory. In staging I have Cox.Apps instead of Default Web Site with jakarta virtual directory underneath
that and other .NET 1.1 and 2.0 apps underneath that as well. I've tried even installing JBoss AS on the IIS6 box in staging to simplify things and that doesn't work either.
Sorry for the long post but plz shed some light on this as we're considering using Apache now. There are no erros in the event viewer's application, system, or security log, no errors in mod_jk log, and no errors in JBoss server.log.
I used this document from JBoss to setup the envmts: http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-12526
Note that the seam-booking example app *does work in both envmts* but it is not using NTLM authentication. All our apps will be using NTLM for now and possibly Kerberos in the future.
This has been *very* difficult to track down and Apache performs much faster than IIS anyways. Plz help. thx.
