RE: TC Connector IIS 1.2.40 not running on windows 2012 R2 64 bits

["Garcia Aparici, Carlos" <cg...@indra.es>]

Good day fellows

I'm answering my own question mainly for historical purposes, so if someone search for this in the future he'll find this answer too.

Related to the problem, we tried a lot of things... different versions of the filter... diferent versions of the MS VC Runtime... we opened a case with MS (it was really important for us).

None of those things worked, neither the MS guy was able to make it work... The solution, after searching in the market for an alternative, was the Microsoft ARR.

Using the install by the WebPi component in IIS. That way it installed the requirements too.

ARR is very similar (well, all those programs are similar) to reverse proxy in squid, or mod_proxy and url_rewrite in apache or an external appliance as the Netscaler.

But at least, it worked of us and we can provided service to our client.

Un saludo.
Carlos García Aparici
Soporte a proyectos (CDG)


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De: Garcia Aparici, Carlos [mailto:cgaparici@indra.es]
Enviado el: lunes, 30 de noviembre de 2015 16:15
Para: Tomcat Users List
Asunto: TC Connector IIS 1.2.40 not running on windows 2012 R2 64 bits

Good day to all.

This is the first time I write to the list, although I'm subscribed for years, and I've used it many times to solve our Tomcat problems, but we didn’t need to ask directly until now.

We're having problems configuring de Tomcat connector version 1.2.40 downloaded from de binaries area (http://apache.rediris.es/tomcat/tomcat-connectors/jk/binaries/windows/)

Let me put in situation:

We have 2 old Windows 2003 Server 64 bits STD running IIS (v6.) server with compatibility enabled to 32 bits in a NLB configuration, and tomcat connector configured following (more or less) the manual as ISAPI, with load balancers, workers...

The servers replacing (hopefully) those are 2 new Windows 2012 R2 Servers (that IIS is 8.5).

We have encountered a lot of problems, unexpected because in our experience, tomcat connector was easy to configure when you understand the concept...

We've readed the documentation, saw two or three tutorials... tried a lot of configurations... old versions... installing (as you can read at botton) VC2014 runtime (and 2013, 2010, 2008, 2005 in both 64bits and 32 bits) but with no luck.

We understand the following steps from our knowledge, the documentation and the internet guides:

Installing VC (all of them) in windows.
Changing IIS global configuration to Net version 2.0 Allow the ISAPI filter in the IIS ISAPI and CGI Restrictions Making an application Pool with Net 2.0
        We made one with compatibility to 32 bits and other without that compatibility (for trying both Dlls)
        We changed the identity of the app pool to administrator Load the Tomcat connector in the ISAPI filter configuration of the site Enable Execution in the Hardler Mappin option (with "Edit feature Permision") Making Jakarta virtual folder pointing to the folder with the DLL and the properties files
        Testing that administrator can reach that folder

After this configuration process, ¡¡we have tried all possible combinations!! with the applications pools and the dlls with no luck...

From all the tries we have extracted this errors:
sometimes we get error 400
sometimes error 500
sometimes that the library cant be loaded.

We have enabled trace error log in the IIS, with no luck.

Seems that IIS 8.5 can't load the ISAPI filter correctly. We are in a dead end, and the option is moving to ARR from the IIS folks...
Help! I can provide you with any relevant info that u consider.

Un saludo.


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De: Thomas, Stuart [mailto:SThomas@littler.com] Enviado el: martes, 15 de septiembre de 2015 20:08
Para: Tomcat Users List
Asunto: RE: TC Connector IIS .41 build not running on windows 2012

You bet.

I found the answer when looking at the mod_jk build for 1.2.41 by Steffen:
https://www.apachelounge.com/download/
The Zip contains a file: "-- Build with VC14 x64 --" | he mentions here that the VC++ redistributable is necessary

Visual Studio isn't mentioned on the site as a build tool.  I would say It would definitely help if this could be included on the site or in the README for those using Visual Studio:  \tomcat-connectors-1.2.41-src\native\iis\README

I also discovered this post that gives more details about this and why the redis is necessary when using Visual Studio:
https://www.mail-archive.com/users@tomcat.apache.org/msg119020.html


 -sT


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 10:47 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: TC Connector IIS .41 build not running on windows 2012

Thanks for providing the solution, as well as the question.
Is this something that should be added to some documentation on the Tomcat website ? Or is it already there and you just overlooked it ?

On 15.09.2015 19:30, Thomas, Stuart wrote:
> The server simply needs to the C++ Redistributable for VS - answer is to install this on the server:
> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
>
> Now it makes sense why it worked locally and not on the server.
>
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> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> Subject: TC Connector IIS .41 build not running on windows 2012
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> I did a build from source using MS Blend for VS.  I copied x86 settings to x64 and my .41 build runs like a charm on Win7 64bit IIS 7.5 - but does not run on windows 2012 IIS 8.5.  Is there anything I should be doing differently to build for IIS 8.5?
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