Start a proxy server to start a new server process based on the
process definition settings of the current proxy server configuration.
Before you begin
Before you start a proxy server, verify that all of the resources
that the proxy requires are available. You must also start all prerequisite
subsystems.
Avoid trouble: All proxy
server processes are performed in the controller because you cannot configure
a servant for a proxy server. Therefore, because application modules cannot
be deployed into a controller, you cannot deploy an application module into
a proxy server. If an application that you are running on a proxy server includes
an application module, such as a module that serves an error page if a proxy
server routing error occurs, that application module must be deployed to the
servant of an application server with which the proxy server can communicate,
instead of to the proxy server.
gotcha
About this task
This procedure for starting a server also applies to restarting
a server. However, if a server fails and you want the recovery functions to
complete their processing prior to new processes being started on the server,
you must restart the server in recovery mode.
Use one of the following
options to start a proxy server.
Procedure
For the z/OS® and distributed platforms, except AIX®,
you can issue the startServer command from the command
line to start a single proxy server. ![[AIX Solaris HP-UX Linux Windows]](../../dist.gif)
You can
issue the
startServer command from the C:\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv02\bin
directory.
# .\startServer.sh proxyserver1
![[AIX]](../../aixlogo.gif)
You can issue the
startServer command
from the
/usr/WebSphere/AppServer/bin directory.
# ./startServer.sh proxyserver1
When a server is started, a new temp directory
is created off of the servant process token, such as profile_root/default/temp/node_name/server_name. When the server
is cleanly stopped, these temp directories are removed.
However, if you infrequently perform graceful shutdowns, which happens if
you cancel rather than stop the server, then these temp directories
are not removed and the hierarchical file system (HFS) used for these temp directories
eventually becomes full. You prevent this storage problem from occurring if
you precompile your JavaServer pages when you install a proxy server or if
you use the JspBatchCompiler function to precompile them before they are invoked.
- You can use the administrative console to start a proxy server.
- In the administrative console, click .
- Select the proxy server that you want to start, and click Start.
- Confirm that you want to start the proxy server.
- View the Status value and any messages
or logs to see whether the proxy server was started.
Results
The specified proxy server starts. To verify that the proxy server
was started, in the administrative console, click .
What to do next
If you need to start the proxy server with standard Java debugging
enabled, then complete these steps:
- From the administrative console, expand proxy_server_name.
- From Server Infrastructure, click .
Select Control.
- Click Java virtual machine.
- Select Debug mode to enable the standard Java debugger.
Set Debug mode arguments, if needed, and click OK.
- Save the changes to a configuration file.
- Stop the proxy server, and restart the proxy server.