I would like to simulate a three-tier environment on my one-tier workstation.

On a three-tier environment the HTML files are on the web server machine and the WebFOCUS files are on the WebFOCUS server machine.

In a one-tier or two-tier environment, the HTML files and the WebFOCUS files are in the same folder, usually C:\ibi\apps\app-name.

I would like to separate the HTML files from the fex files to simulate the files being on different machines.

For the HTML files I'm guessing I can modify the location from the WF Administration Console > Configuration > General > APPROOT Location of the Application Namespace root directory on the Web server where WebFOCUS is installed. The default directory is installationdrive:\ibi\apps unless a different directory was specified during the installation of the WebFOCUS Client.

What do I do for the WebFOCUS files? I thought I would move the WebFOCUS files to another location on my workstation but what next? I can only think of Mapping the application folders and then adding them to the APP PATH, but mapping them isn't exactly simulating the three-tier environment, I thought I would find some configuration setting to define where the app folders are.

Thank you,

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Francis Mariani,

I would leave approot pointing to ibi/apps.

You could possibly change the reporting server application directory by going to the edaserve.cfg file for the Dev Studio local server and change this line:

approot = drive:\ibi\apps

to point somewhere else.

Ginny, thanks for the information.

I change the approot setting in edaserve.cfg to

approot = C:\ibi\apps_edaserve

but there may be more to change because now there is no APP PATH, even though APP PATH \is configured in edasprof.prf.

And now, for some reason I get a server error (I didn't change anything except the above statement, which I have also tried resetting back to the default):

Server is in SAFE MODE due to the following configuration error

'admin_id' has no valid member >>>>> fix now

I don't know why this error pops up after changing the approot setting, but I can't seem to fix this.

Maybe it doesn't work because there no true web client in the local Dev Studio config.

I assume you have repaired edaserve.cfg and it still doesn't work?

Look for admin.cfg in the profiles directory under the srv76 directory.

I repaired edaserve.cfg and admin.cfg is OK. The odd thing is that I can successfully login with the admin id as specified in admin.cfg nd then I get the error about admin_id no configured! All because I changed one line in edaserve.cfg!

A reinstall may be called for.

Francis,

Just change the alias "/approot" to point to a different directory. Leave the WFS/WFC alone ... that takes a lot more effort.

e.g.

/approot => \ibi\apps_web

dhagen, thanks I'll give that a try.

Any idea why I have the admin_id problem?

Cheers,

Actually this can be done but can lead to problems and IBI will not support it if you have any problems. There really is a WebFOCUS Client installed wioth developer studio. This is the default installation directory C:\ibi\DevStudio76\client. I do not want you goto into detail as I said it will not be supported by IBI.

  admin_id = OFFICE\fmarian
BEGIN
  admin_password = 5C944A4E95D9550F878797D4AE4F4F32
  admin_level = SRV
END