Installing the WMS Connector with Coldfusion, Jrun, and Tomcat

Recently I was asked to install the ArcIMS WMS connector on a server that was running ColdFusion (JRun) as the Servlet Connector. I searched for ways to configure the two to work together but I had no luck. My next thought was to see if Tomcat 5.5 and JRun could run on the same server, it turns out they can. Below are the steps to set this up.

Step 1:
If you already have ArcIMS installed, uninstall it.

Step 2:
Follow the instructions located here. An important piece of the instructions from that link that is misleading comes in to play when you are installing Tomcat. It says you can install it to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5 or C:\Tomcat5.5. I highly recommend installing to C:\Tomcat5.5, I was unable to get the redirect working with it installed to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5. When installing ArcIMS: at the Web Server-Servlet Engine Configuration dialog box, select 'IIS with Tomcat 5.5'. You will still need to follow the instructions for configuring CF and ArcIMS, found here. This is so CF and ArcIMS can still communicate.

Step 3:
Now we need to test to see if the WMS connector is configured correctly. http:///wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?cmd=connectorping The display will say Enabled=False at this point. Now go to the following link: http:///wmsconnector/index.htm Select the Connector Properties link at the top and fill in the form. Change Enabled to from False to True. Click submit.Check to see if the Map Services have wms capabilities. If you refresh a map service you must choose Update Services in order for the changes to take place.