I have Tomcat 5.5 installed on a Win2000 server with IIS 5.0, and I'm using the isapi_redirect.dll ver 1.2.19. I have deployed this on a development server, and it worked like a charm (only difference is that the dev server is Win2003 server with IIS 6.0). I am now deploying it on the previously mentioned Win2k server, and I have one situation that causes a problem.
Problem: All web requests are being forwarded correctly from IIS to Tomcat (via isapi_redirect.dll), except for those at the root of the Servlet. For example, http://<ip or dns name>/wiki/<anything> will load and execute my servlet. The URL http://<ip or dns name>/wiki/ by itself (nothing following the last forward slash) will fail somewhere in the process of execution without logging anything anywhere, and the browser (both IE and Firefox so far) are asking me to download a file instead of outputting html to the browser window. I don't believe that IIS is giving me the problem, because if the request was being processed by IIS, the response would simply be a 404 error. I'm tempted to think that the problem lies in how the isapi filter is modifying the request before handing it off to Tomcat, or that Tomcat is modifying it in between receiving and processing it. My uriworkermap.properties has the following entry: /wiki/*=ajp13w And my xml file in Tomcat (<tomcat install>\cont\Catalina\localhost\wiki.xml) has the context element defined with path="/wiki" and docBase="D:/<physical path to servlet root>/". To the best of my knowledge, I have configured this to work correctly. I say this because I can go directly to Tomcat (by appending Tomcat's standalone listening port of 8080 in the url) and I can also request any other URL (other than the one I'm having trouble with) without specifying the port number, and IIS hands it off to Tomcat and returns the expected html content. I also have double, triple, and quadruple checked that all my config files and registry entries as described in the isapi_redirect documentation are the same on both servers (with differences only in the file paths because the file systems are laid out differently), and the only difference between the two servers is the OS and version of IIS. I will continue researching and trouble shooting, but ANY help, information, or ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks! - Rich
