Environment
Products:
Novell GroupWise 7
Microsoft Windows 2003
Apache for Windows
Microsoft Windows 2003
Apache for Windows
Situation
Purpose:
How to setup GroupWise 7 WebAccess on Windows with
Apache?
Setting up GroupWise 7 WebAccess Application on Windows with
Apache
Resolution
Setting up GroupWise 7 WebAccess Application on Windows with
Apache is NOT officially supported , however it is possible. Please
follow the steps listed below:
1. Install IIS
2. Install WebAccess Application on Windows and select"Microsoft Internet Information Server(IIS) for Windows Server"
during the installation and proceed ahead
3. Once the WebAccess Application is installed, please stop
the IIS Service
4. Install Apache2 for Windows
5. Download mod_jk-apache-2.2.4.so from the following web
site
6. Rename mod_jk-apache-2.2.4.so to mod_jk.so and copy the
renamed file to "C:\Program Files\Apache Software
Foundation\Apache2.2\modules"
7. Edit "C:\Program Files\Apache Software
Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf" and add the following
line without quotes after the last LoadModule
statement
"LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so"
8. At the very bottom of the file, add the following 3 lines
##### Begin Novell GroupWise WebAccess configuration
#####
include "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\GWApache2.conf"
##### End Novell GroupWise WebAccess configuration #####
include "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\GWApache2.conf"
##### End Novell GroupWise WebAccess configuration #####
9. Save the file and exit
10. Create a new file GWApache2.conf and copy the following in
the new file
#
# Root context mounts for Tomcat
#
# Root context mounts for Tomcat
#
JKmount /*.jsp ajp13
JKmount /gw/* ajp13
JKmount /gw/* ajp13
Alias /gw "SYS:/tomcat/4/webapps/gw"
# In general, allow access.
Options MultiViews
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
Options MultiViews
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
# Deny access to the running code.
deny from all
deny from all
# Add default character sets
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Order allow,deny
deny from all
# Deny access to the manifest, etc.
deny from all
deny from all
Order allow,deny
deny from all
11. Save the GWApache2.conf file in "C:\Program Files\Apache
Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf"
12. Start Apache and Tomcat from Services
13. Launch a browser and type http://IPAddressOfTheServer/gw/webacc to
test if WebAccess is working
14. Once Apache is functioning, make sure IIS is compelety
disabled. If needed, uninstall IIS
15. Make sure Apache starts up automatically when the
server starts
Additional Information
Adding the following line in httpd.conf will redirect the
request automatically to the Login page and will avoid the need to
type /gw/webacc in the URL manually
Redirect permanent /index.html"httpd://URL/gw/webacc"