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Figure C-2.
5.
Click the Finish button.
6.
Verify that the WAR file was exported by using My Computer to view the location.
Tutorial: Installing to a WAS
Amazingly, RAD and WAS make the process to install an application that encompasses hundreds or thousands of Web
pages and Java classes as simple as installing a single Web page.
The first nice WAS feature we'll look at is remote installation. This means you do not have to physically access the
server to load the WAR file and install the application. Instead, the server is accessed with the browser and the WAR
file is transferred from the PC to the server. (Of course, this assumes you have the authority to install applications on
the server.)
To perform the installation, first access the WAS Administrative Console page. This is done by starting a browser
session and entering the URL or IP address of the WAS and specifying the admin directory. In this example, we use the
host address of WAS-server. You will have to substitute your host IP address or URL in all the examples.
Start the browser and specify the following URL:
http://WAS-server:9061/admin/
1.
Notice that in addition to the host address, we specified a port number (9061). Multiple servers can be running
on one host computer. The way the computer distinguishes between the various servers is by the port number.
(A more user-friendly site would have created separate URLs for the various servers, thereby relieving the user of
having to remember the port number.)
The WAS default is to run the administrative/technical functions on one port (9061) and the user applications on
another port (9081). In addition, we must specify the admin subdirectory so that the Administrative Console logon
window is displayed as in Figure
C-3
. (Again, your URL may have different port numbers and the console may be in a
different subdirectory.)
