Saturday, January 22, 2011

IBM HTTP Server 7 challenge

I got the root cause of the following problem - for IHS now, you are supposed to manage the web server from the WAS admin console and there is not a web server admin console to pull up.
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I cannot bring up IHS admin console. The URL is right. The port is right. Below is what I got.

"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server."
I have tried to modify httpd.confi (). It did not help. I also played on file security settings with no results. I did look at admin.conf file as well. No clue!

I modified httpd.conf and changed - the original was "Group nobody". This is an unrelated change in terms of the above mentioned error message.

User nobody
Group nogroup

1 comment:

Ying Ding said...

Jeremy has a great answer:" Jeremy Russell • With IHS, a person wouldn't normally access the admin server on Distributed Operating Systems (essentially non IBM i or zOS platforms). There isn't an admin console in the since that *from what I can tell* you are trying to access.

You can setup a web server in a Websphere Application Server console and manage it through the admin server, but you don't access directly to manage it."