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Off Topic => General => Topic started by: kit on September 25, 2014, 12:05:05 PM

Title: Simplify/Shorten Content Navigator URL
Post by: kit on September 25, 2014, 12:05:05 PM

Hello experts,

Our Content navigator was deployed in WebSphere 8.5. In order for our user be able to access CMOD reports through a web browser but I want to simplify the URL to a more friendly and easy to remember URL.

Our CMOD v9 server has multiple instance. (CMODPROD,CMODUAT...)

ex.  from - http://WASSrvrName:9080/navigator/?desktop=CMODPROD
       to     - http://CMODPROD
 
       from - http://WASSrvrName:9080/navigator/?desktop=CMODUAT
       to     - http://CMODUAT 

Is there a way we can do this?

Thanks,

Kit

Title: Re: Simplify/Shorten Content Navigator URL
Post by: jeffs42885 on September 26, 2014, 05:23:05 AM

I've seen this done before using 3DNS from F5 networks, maybe talk to your infrastructure folks and see if they can setup an alias, or something along those lines.

Or maybe a hosts file change.

Title: Re: Simplify/Shorten Content Navigator URL
Post by: Justin Derrick on September 26, 2014, 10:17:00 AM

You can also set this up at the DNS/webserver level. 

Register the CMODPROD/CMODUAT nicknames with your corporate DNS server, and point it to your WAS server IP address.

Then configure the HTTP server to be a VirtualHost, and inside that 'directive', you can redirect it to a different URL.

Take a look at this page:  https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/remapping.html  Specifically under 'Canonical Hostnames'.

Report back to let us know how you solved this one!

-JD.

Title: Re: Simplify/Shorten Content Navigator URL
Post by: jeffs42885 on September 26, 2014, 11:45:50 AM

Justin always has a more simpler way of saying things than I do. :D