WEB SERVERS

Setting up Domino to work with other Web servers
Back-end IBM® Lotus® Domino™ servers can receive, and respond to, requests from front-end IBM® HTTP Servers (IHS) or from Microsoft® Internet Information Servers (IIS). For this communication to occur, the appropriate IBM® WebSphere® Application Server (WAS) 4.0.3 or later plug-in must be installed on the front-end server. These plug-ins recognize HTTP requests for Domino applications and pass them along to the Domino server. Other HTTP requests will be handled by the front-end server itself.

A typical scenario is for the front-end server to be outside a firewall. The front-end server receives requests from Web users, the plug-in relays the requests over HTTP, through the firewall, to the HTTP task on the back-end Domino server. The Domino server then processes the request and sends the reply back to the plug-in, which relays it to the user.

A plug-in can be configured to support any number of back-end servers. Since Domino uses the same plugins as WebSphere, you can also combine Domino and WebSphere servers. For example, a Domino server hosting a mail application and a WebSphere server hosting a J2EE application could both be placed behind the same IIS front-end server.

The back-end Domino server can be on any supported operating system platform. The following front-end servers are supported:


The plug-in files are packaged with the Domino server and their use is covered by your Domino license. You do not need to install any other WebSphere components to use the Microsoft IIS plug-in. However, to use the IHS plug-in you must install the IHS components of WebSphere on the front-end server.

The following features are supported for the Domino back-end servers: core Domino database functionality, Domino Web Access, and Lotus Domino Off-Line Services (DOLS). Additional Domino products may also be supported; refer to the product documentation for details.