Install Tomcat

• Install Tomcat on Linux
• Install Tomcat on Windows

Configure Tomcat for HTTPS

For secure communications, you must configure Tomcat to use HTTPS. PhixFlow must be configured:

• to allow HTTPS connections to the webapp

• to disable HTTP access.

Linux: Install Pound Reverse Proxy

Windows: Microsoft blog post about IIS as a reverse proxy

If you want to make your web server visible on the default ports (e.g. on Linux, http: 80, https: 443) we recommend that you use a reverse proxy to terminate the HTTPS session and to forward web requests using HTTP to the Tomcat server. 

In this configuration, the reverse proxy runs as root, which allows it:

• to use privileged ports (up to port 1000)
• to forward requests to the web server, which runs:
  • as a non-privileged user (normally 'tomcat')
  • on non-privileged ports (above 1000).

This solution requires that:

• the proxy and Tomcat servers run on a private network or on the same server

• and that the Tomcat server is not directly accessible to normal users.

Options for reverse proxy servers are:

• On Linux servers, Pound 
• On Windows servers, IIS.

If you do not already have the PhixFlow package to install, you can download it from our support FTP site. Please email support@phixflow.com.

Logon to the webapp host and unpack the release package.

Create a database user and tables. Populate the tables with initial configuration data and set the customer name. 

See also the details in Database URLs.

Check that the application is running by starting the client and logging in with the username startup and password: Startup.