Step 2. Edit and deploy the component war files.

To configure the Reflection for the Web web application, you must edit the web.xml file to replace the <placeholder> values in the mss.war and rweb.war files. Then, each war file needs to be deployed.

NOTE:When Reflection for the Web and Management and Security Server (MSS) are installed on separate machines, or when using the RWeb WAR in a separate Servlet runner, we recommend that all web applications are accessed through the machine or application running Reflection for the Web. For example: https://rwebhost/mss

A. Edit and deploy mss.war.

The mss.war file is the mss web proxy, which is required for Reflection for the Web to interact with Management and Security Server.

  1. Extract mss.war.

  2. Open WEB-INF, and then open web.xml in a text editor.

  3. Locate the three trust-store [placeholder] entries. The trust-store entries are required to put a certificate into the trust store.

    • trust-store-file

    • trust-store-type

    • trust-store-password

  4. Replace each trust-store [placeholder] value with the value for your configuration.

  5. Locate the [mss-url] placeholder and replace it with the URL of the MSS server.

    For example: https://msshost/mss

  6. Deploy mss.war to your servlet runner.

B. Edit and deploy rweb.war.

The rweb.war file redirects client requests from the /rweb URL path, used in Reflection for the Web and Management and Security Server versions prior to 12.2, to the current /mss URL path.

Edit the trust-store placeholders in the rweb.war file:

  1. Extract rweb.war.

  2. Open WEB-INF, and then open web.xml in a text editor.

  3. Locate and replace the three trust-store [placeholder] entries:

    • trust-store-file

    • trust-store-type

    • trust-store-password

  4. Deploy rweb.war to your servlet runner.

C. Deploy rweb-client.war.

  1. Copy rweb-client.war to this MSS webapps folder:

    <MSS install directory>\server\web\webapps

    The servlet runner will expand the war file and an rweb-client context will be created.

  2. Start (or restart) the MSS Server.

  3. Continue with Step 3 to install the activation file.