Hosting ZS:CE on IBM i Series

[zerich]

Hey folks,

I just wanted to know if this was possible or not - I've been searching for a while now, and I haven't been able to find a clear answer.

I'm running ZS:CE on an IBM i Series. ZS is configured to listen on its default port, 10088, and I get a welcome page for ZS when I visit http://www.website.com:10088. My i Series is currently running Websphere, which my website is dependent on. I already have pre-existing content on "website", and I am adopting ZS to add PHP functionality to my existing Java/JSP functionality.

My question is, is it possible to visit an address, such as http://www.website.com/hello, and have that address display web content dependent of ZS:CE, without including the port, while also keeping my existing Websphere content from "website" intact?

I was looking into virtual hosts, but I wasn't sure if I was on the right track.

Thank you!

[kentatzend]

Moved to the IBM i forums.

[aseiden]

Just have time for a quick answer to point you in the right direction.

Virtual hosts allow multiple sites to be set up with one Apache configuration, but the sites are to be accessed separately by users, with separate domain names and/or ports.

To combine multiple sites into one, use Apache's reverse proxy functionality. That is, set up ZENDSVR to listen on port 80. It can run its PHP functionality directly. If it encounters a URL that looks like something that your Websphere app should serve, ZENDSVR can do a reverse proxy call to the Websphere server to get the content and serve it to the user through ZENDSVR, so that proxy call is transparent to the user.

--Alan Seiden