[mapguide-users] Setting up a site server and a webextensions server

[Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S]

Thanks a bunch, it works perfectly now!

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S



Chris Claydon skrev:
> There is an IpAddress setting in both serverconfig.ini and webconfig.ini.
>
> If machine B is connecting to machine A, it means you probably have the webconfig.ini setting set correctly. When you create a session, the IpAddress from the server is encoded into the session ID. The web tier extracts it and attempts to connect to it - this is how the web tier locates the server that owns a session in a multi-server environment.
>
> So if your serverconfig.ini still contains 127.0.0.1 as the IP, machine B's web tier will look for a server on the same machine, and it'll fail. If you update the setting in serverconfig.ini to a "real" IP address that B can use to find A, it *should* work.
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:19 AM
> To: MapGuide Users Mail List
> Subject: [mapguide-users] Setting up a site server and a webextensions server
>
> I'm trying to set up a dual-machine environment.
> I have installed the MapGuide server and MapGuide WebExtensions on 
> machine A,
> and then only the WebExtensions on machine B.
>
> When I connect to the mapagent.fcgi on machine A, everything works as 
> expected.
>
> When I connect to machine B, it does not work.
> This is what happens:
> 1) I go to the http test page
> 2) execute "CreateSession"
> 3) I am prompted for username/password, which I enter
> 4) I get a sessionID, as expected
> 5) I execute "GetSiteInfo", and I get the results as expected.
> 6) I copy the url for the GetSiteInfo request into my adressbar and I 
> get the same response
> --- Heres where it breaks
> 7) I then append "SESSION=<the session id from step 4>"
> and it fails with this message:
>
> Cannot establish connection. Exception occurred in method 
> MgServerConnection.Open at line 106 in file 
> d:\build\carrera_nightly\build_34.2\ent\os\common\mapguidecommon\Services/ServerConnection.cpp 
>
>
> So, as long as I am using http authentication, everything works, but 
> when I rely on the SESSION value, it fails.
> Note that it fails even though I'm still http authenticating, but also 
> passing the SESSION value.
>
> Is this a known issue? What can I do to locate the error better?
>
>