Tag: IHS

When Upload through IHS fails: a 30 second NFS mystery

Upload through IHS failed with HTTP 500 on one environment and worked flawlessly on another, despite identical binaries. The exception carried no cause, no FFDC, and no hint. The culprit: java.io.File.length() silently returning 0, because the WebSphere node could not see a file the IHS node had written 1.4 seconds earlier. A post on NFS option parameters, which might save you some headaches.

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Creating an IBM HTTP Server key db from a .pfx file

t’s a question that I get quite often. “Can you create a IHS key database for me from this pfx certificate”? Multiple of our customers use IBM HTTP Server. Either for HCL Connections, but also as a reverse proxy for other services. Most of those customers use a wildcard certificate for their IHS server that has to be renewed each year. As I hate this kind of repetitive work, I created a script to do it for me. As it could be of use to others, I decided to create a blog article about it.

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