This section describes the configuration necessary to run Windchill with PTC HTTP Server installed on a machine other than the machine that Windchill is installed on. This configuration is known as a split configuration.

PTC recommends that you first get Windchill running with PTC HTTP Server installed on the same machine as Windchill before reconfiguring Windchill to work in a split configuration. This ensures that you have functional configurations for both Windchill and PTC HTTP Server.

After the system is running with PTC HTTP Server installed locally, you then migrate the PTC HTTP Server configuration to an PTC HTTP Server installation on the remote machine. Note that the remote PTC HTTP Server must be updated with changes to the Windchill installation whenever the Embedded Servlet Engine and Windchill configuration files are modified, such as when a Windchill application is installed or modified.

Finally, you perform configuration updates on Windchill to enable it to work with the remote PTC HTTP Server server. The procedure described here includes instructions to enable Remote Method Invocation (RMI) tunneling. This is not always required, but is included because oftentimes the same security concerns that influence the decision to implement a split configuration also discourage the use of direct RMI to the Windchill server.