Setting up Appliance Web Interface

AppLogic provides the ability for appliances to expose their own management interface that is accessible through the AppLogic Editor via the Login (web) operation.

The AppLogic editor looks for the appliance's management interface on a specific port number using the default interface of the appliance. The port number is configured by adding web:port to the console setting in the Virtualization Settings dialog. Currently, only port 80 can be used.

Within the appliance, the HTTP server must be configured to listen on the configured port (web:port) on the IP address of the default interface. This can be done through the Apache configuration file (e.g., Listen IP:port). The default interface IP address can be retrieved from one of the following files within the appliance depending upon the configuration mode that the appliance uses (as specified in the Virtualization Settings dialog):

• dhcp (APK): /var/run/applogic/appliance.sh
• volfix (older appliances from AppLogic 2.2 and prior): /etc/applogic.sh

AppLogic 2.4.5: the management web GUI exposed by the appliance only supports relative references; absolute references to the document root do not work.

AppLogic 2.4.7+: absolute references to the document root are supported.

Appliance web interfaces exposed through the default interface are proxied by the grid controller. As such, the protocol in use is https. When coding URL's which include the protocol, for example when making XML HTTP requests in Javascript, use window.location.protocol to obtain the correct protocol (e.g., URL=window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + "/path/to/file").

-- Main.BeckyH - 02 May 2008