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custom url for bi launch pad ?

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I recently installed BI 4.0 SP2 with Tomcat 6 on the same server. I have 2 domains - domain1 and domain2. My BOBJ server is on domain1. Right now, I can access my BI launchpad and CMC etc like this:  http://myservername.domain1:8080/BOE/BI http://myservername.domain1:8080/BOE/CMC  Instead of these urls, I would like the end users and admins to access these via a better looking url something like  http://launchpad.domain2.com and http://cmc.domain2.com  I cannot figure out how to accomplish that.

I have looked into the option of http redirect (not good because the destination address shows up in the address bar), domain forwarding (not sure if it would work with multiple applications and forwarding from one domain to another) and also using apache tomcat with mod_jk by using virtual hosts (not sure if it is possible when forwarding from one domain to a sub domain in another domain) ??  please advise as to what would be my best option and how to accomplish.  thanks a bunch

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Former Member
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Hello,

Renaming the URL used to connect to BI Launchpad or CMC, I guess, is possible through the use of

reverse-proxy (please see this KBA 1676146 - How to configure Apache as a Reverse Proxy with BI

4.0? ).

Hope that helps.

Best regards,

Akram.

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Hello Rajiv:

This posting is quite old but did you ever get an answer to your question?  This is my first post to
SCN.

I have a similar issue.  My predecessor used our internal application brand in the URL for our BO implementation.  He had set up our production environment so that the brand name http://our-application-brandname points to http://myservername.domain1:8080/BOE/BI  Somehow this redirect stops at the server name due to DNS alias.  Tomcat doesn’t finish the redirect to BOE/BI.  DNS will only point a New Name Record to another Name Record.  No subs.

Our DNS server has the OUR-APPICATION-BRANDNAME point to the server name as it should and it works.  It brings up the Tomcat admin page which means it is reaching the server but it doesn’t redirect to the subdirectories of BOE/BI so Launchpad will launch.  It used to work but when we upgraded our BO 4.0 SP5.3 installation to BO 4.0 6.5, it was lost.  The updates must have overwrote the redirect in Tomcat to reach the subs of BOE/BI.

Interestingly it does work when you add the BOE/BI to the URL but that is not what the users know and are familiar with.


I would appreciate any insight from someone on how I can fix this final piece.  As I said, this is my first post.  I am sure my predecessor didn’t do this in the orthodox or right way but I am willing to go back and use it again as long as it is documented for my team to fix if it ever happens again.

Thank you for any insights as to what to do I would really
appreciate. 

Regards,

Eugene

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Hi Eugene,

Reading through the complete description, my guess is that the redirection configuration was overwritten by the Service Pack Upgrade files. To point the http://our-application-brandname to http://myservername.domain1:8080/BOE/BI, please perform the following steps:

  1. Stop Tomcat & SIA
  2. Open the location: BO Installation Drive \Program Files\Business Objects\Tomcat*\webapps\ROOT
  3. Backup the index.html to another location
  4. Open the original index.html (not the backup copy)
  5. Add the following script into index.html file below the <head> and above <title>Apache Tomcat</title> section:
    <SCRIPT language-“javascript”>
    Location.href="http://myservername.domain1:8080/BOE/BI";
    </SCRIPT>
  6. Start Tomcat & SIA
  7. Open IE and check whether http://our-application-brandname returns the expected results

Regards,

Chinmay Godbole

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Hi Chinmay,

We also have simillar kind of requirement. But I dont see index.html but we have only index.jsp. We are using Tomcat 7. Please let me know, where to do the changes.

Thanks,

Bilal