Wrong server is PWA site on small farm install?

[HMH]

My question -- where is the PWA home page supposed to be located? Application
server or web front end server?

Our installation: one application server, one web-front end server, and a
pre-existing SQL 2005 database.

We installed Project Server 2007 and meticulously followed the installation
procedures which got fuzzy at some important points. We used Microsoft's
deployment document and the book from MS Project Experts -- all was helpful.

Now, when we use the URL http://<application-server>/pwa the website for PWA
comes up fine. When we use http://<web-server>/pwa we get nothing.

Following the installation caused the SharePoint administration to install
on the application server. (I figured this is where it should be.)

Is this the way it was supposed to be? Or did I setup something incorrectly
during the SharePoint administration/farm setup? Was there somewhere in the
setup I should have selected a different server?

Other than this, the install was flawless and went well.

Thanks,

 

[Paul Conroy]

In a small farm config the web app should be hosted on the web server.

Did you stop the web application service on the App Server before creating
the web app for PWA ?

When you create the PWA web app, you need to ensure that the load balanced
URL resolves to the Front End Server.

 

[HMH]

Thanks, I will check into this, sounds good.

When I installed, I blindly followed the procedure to install server A, then
install server B. And the web programs would have been running on A when I
installed B. I can redo the servers and start the install over again. (This
is our development system for the purpose of testing the installation
procedure.)

 

[HMH]

Thanks Paul -- it worked.

After reading through the installation procedure for the Nth time, I found
an almost passing remark about this. That information was somewhat obscured
since the procedure and example followed a one-server setup which has a few
significant differences to our three-server setup (small farm with front-end,
application, and database servers).

When I followed your advice everything installed where it should and the
correct server hosts the website now.

I did find on one installation screen (SharePoint wizard, I think) that the
Advanced button lead to a form where the front end server could be selected
to host the web application -- something not mentioned in the procedures. I
checked that box also.

Thanks,