Portal Alias

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I have an EP7 portal installed which is available only within the intranet. It is currently accessed using the FQDN & port such as http://<fqdn>:<port>/irj.

Is it possible to access the portal using a general url such as http://portal.xxx.com ? I do not want to use any proxies or a WebDispatcher.

Is there anything else i can use such as creating an alias ?

Thanks,

Kiran

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

If you are in a Microsoft environment you could use DNS to map the name that you want to the IP address.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi David,

Yes, we are on the MS Win 2003 server. Can you point me to some documentation on the steps for these ?

Thanks,

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/2bd36720-ed2e-47ed-a80d-fa43a403b4361033.mspx...

Very dry reading but, no worse that SAP docs

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Kiran

Were you able to find a solution to this?

I have the same requirement, and am struggling to find a simple way to achieve this at the moment.

Cheers,

Andrew

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Andrew,

Yes, i was able to accomplish this. It required 2 steps for me

1) Create an alias as in this post on the DNS server so that it points to your portal server

2) Since, ports cannot be configured in the DNS you have to see that the request is sent to the correct port. For this you can either

a) change the port of J2EE engine to default http port 80 and set the start page of j2ee to /irj so any request coming to portal server launches the portal url

b) setup a simple proxy such as web dispatcher without making changes on j2ee so that the requests are forwarded to j2ee.

I chose the web dispatcher and got it working.