WebSphere Commerce 7 | Local setup of WCS & IBM HTTP Server | Not able to hit local server | Request is not reaching to WAS

I got some weird issue in my local environment where WebSphere Commerce Server was able to start properly. But, I am not able open Storefront pages as the request is not reaching the Application Server.

Later, I have realized it was happened because IBM HTTP Server was not started.


After, WebSphere Commerce installation in the local environment and on top of it, IBM HTTP Server has been installed so that Static content will be served from Web Server instead of WCS Application Server as mentioned in the following document,
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/co-config-httpserver-was/

As part of this IBM HTTP Server installation, you might have run Jython Script so that, Ports  80, 443 will be used by HTTP Server. Later, you will be able to hit only local WebSphere Commerce Server through IBM HTTP Server itself.

If we stop HTTP Server and try to hit Storefront, it will not reach the WebSphere Commerce Server. In the future, if you don't want to use IBM HTTP Server and directly, hit WCS Server itself, then update Jython Script "configureWCPorts.py".

AdminTask.modifyServerPort ('server1', '[-nodeName localhost -endPointName WC_defaulthost -host localhost -port 80 -modifyShared true]')

AdminTask.modifyServerPort ('server1', '[-nodeName localhost -endPointName WC_defaulthost_secure -host localhost -port 443 -modifyShared true]')

AdminTask.modifyServerPort ('server1', '[-nodeName localhost -endPointName WC_PORT_4 -host localhost -port 18006 -modifyShared true]')AdminConfig.save()

And run the following Jython Script as mentioned in the document,
wsadmin -lang jython -f configureWCPorts.py -conntype NONE

Now, you should be able to hit WebSphere Application Server directly with out IBM HTTP Server.