Sun Java Sytem Web Server 7.0 blogs Amit's Weblog

Creating a SSL enabled website (using Administration GUI) is perhaps one of the most easiest tasks in Web Server 7.0. You just need a few clicks in the Administration GUI if you want to set up a SSL enabled web site using a self-signed certificate. Administration GUI also has easy to use wizard to generate a certificate signing request(CSR) which you could get it signed by a well known CA and then install the CA signed certificate using another easy to use Administration GUI wizard.

I have myself created a SSL enabled website using a self signed certificate in few minutes. You could see that in the following screen cast. I have used Web Server 7.0 Update 3 release for this demonstration.

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I found a nice article on deploying Web Applications to Web Server 7.0 with Netbeans 6.0, so I thought of giving a try to deploy a web application to Web Server 7.0 with Netbeans 6.1.

I simply followed the steps mentioned in the article and everything worked perfectly fine without any issues. I have captured this small experiment of mine in a screen cast.

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Another feature of the Web Server 7.0 Update 2 release which is worth mentioning is the support to reset the administration server password. It could happen that you will forget your administration password (happens to me quite often) and then think hard to recollect it.

Well, this neat feature of Web Server 7.0 would simply let you reset your administration server password without worrying about the previous password. However, this works only when wadm is executed locally on the administration server machine.

As usual, I did forget my administration server password again, so lets try to reset it to something which I can remember for sometime.

# cd <webserver_install_dir>/bin # ./wadm reset-admin-password --user admin --host localhost --port 8800 Please enter admin-password> <new_password> Please enter admin-password again> <new_password> #

One of the important features added in the Web Server 7.0 Update 2 release is roll back deployed configuration support. The configuration backups are taken automatically on every deployment of the configuration up to a maximum of 7 backups after which the old back ups are removed.

While trying to explore this cool feature on my Web Server installation, I thought of capturing it in a screen cast as well. All I have done in this screen cast is that I have changed "Request Header Buffer Size" value and then restored it back using Restore feature.

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There is also a lower resolution version of the same screen cast available
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