Changing URL of PowerDesigner portal (powerdesigner-web)

[former_member456149]

Hi everyone,

We would like to change the URL of the PowerDesigner portal to get a shorter URL. We tried to remove the "powerdesigner-web", so that the portal could be reached using:

http://<HOST>/ instead of http://<HOST>:3030/powerdesigner-web/

Therefore we changed the port the Tomcat is running from 3030 to 80 (in the server.xml) which worked fine.

Additionally we changed the name of the "ROOT" folder ( ...\PowerDesigner Portal 16\Tomcat\webapps\ROOT) to "startpage" which also worked fine.

Then we added into the server.xml the following part into the HOST section

<Context path="/"

                    docBase="powerdesigner-web"

                    reloadable="true" />

which seemed to work also fine as we could reach the portal login page and login using the URL http://<HOST>/

BUT after each click within the repository section the portal asks for a re-login. 😞

Did anybody managed to change the URL or has an idea what we did wrong?

Best regards,

Simon

[Former Member]

Hi Simon,

We set up an alias for the portal. That involved

- the usual DNS work to have the alias resolve to the PD server

- add the alias to the server hostnames

- we just redirected port 80 to 3030 in server.xml

<Connector port="80" enableLookups="false"

           redirectPort="3030" />

- then change the Host entry for localhost to the alias

I remember having trouble getting it all to work when we set it up - so this is what we settled on.

Bruce

[former_member456149]

Hi Bruce,

Thank you for your answer. What you did sounds very similar to what we did.

Can you reach your portal using http://<Host>/ or is it still http://<Host>/powerdesigner-web/ ?

We managed to get the second variant ( http://<Host>/powerdesigner-web/ ) work but would like to remove the "/powerdesigner-web/" part, too. And if we try to do so, the portal ask for a re-login after each click.

Best regards,

Simon

[Former Member]

Hi Simon

It is http://<Host>/

Might be your "<Host" in server.xml. Part of our changes included changing [Host name="localhost"] to [Host name="our.alias"].

If it helps, ping me directly and we can look at screens via Skype.

Bruce