external access is not possible on webdynpro abap

[Former Member]

Hello SAP Community,

we have the following scenario that is currently in our company:

1.One of employees logging in on our employee portal from external (at home, outside the company network):
The link which he want to connect is: employeeportal.company.com

2. After calling these URL he has to authenticate with his network user and after successful login he lands on the SAP Enterprise Portal for employees on HOST 1 - Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

Thus, the public URL (employeeportal.company.com) correctly on the portal server (HOST1) is forwarded.

3.Finally get there he can do his clock in-out corrections, doing his absence request and is able to edit and manage them.

Problem Description:

We have integrated on Enterprise Portal self-developed extensions (WEBDYNPRO ABAP).
For example a annual calender view of all employees abscene days developed in WEBDYNPRO ABAP on SAP R3 HR client (HOST 2) integrated into the employee portal.

The own developed applications can be displayed without any problems within the internal network. But when logging in from external by network authentification, these extensions are not displayed.

We think that there are configuration options within the portal to the in-house developments (WEBDYNPRO) to make them visible also when logging in from external.

Maybe you have already had the same problem and can help us.
We would be please about getting any hints

With best regards.

Stefan Obenauf
Basis Administrator

[harsha_jalakam]

Hi Stefan,

Please check the ITS settings propertie of the system object for which the WD ABAP iview has been created.Please ensure that it should be both http and https

Regards,

Harsha

[Former Member]

Hi Stefan,

How have you enabled your Portal access over Internet?

Are you using Web Dispatcher or any reverse proxy to access the Portal from outside network?

In case you're using SAP Web Dispatcher then to access WD ABAP based functionality through Portal over Internet, you need to define and open a Port that should be accessible over Internet and that it will route all your back end server requests to ECC system.

You can also open & expose the port of your ECC system over Internet to access the WD ABAP functionality but that is not recommended due to security constraints.

In case, you do not have any security mechanism so far in your landscape to access the ESS / MSS functionality over web, please explore the SAP Web Dispatcher / reverse proxy options.

BR,

Anurag