Hi,
We need a redirect from http://<host> to http://<host>/irj/portal for our EP 7.0 portal with kerberos. For EP 6.0 we used the IIS servers we had to have in order to do NTLM, but now we are getting rid of those.
From my point of view there are many different ways of doing the redirect, but none of them exactly what we want.
1. Do the redirect on the load balancer (ideal)
Problem: Not supported by our load balancer product
2. Undeploy the application sap.com/com.sap.engine.docs.example which binds the root(/) context root, and deploy a custom made J2EE application which does the redirect.
Problem: The applying of a support package containing a new version of the sap.com/com.sap.engine.docs.example will fail, since the root context root is allready bound. Must first remove the custom made J2EE application (which someone is bound to forget to do).
3. Undeploy the application sap.com/com.sap.engine.docs.example which binds the root(/) context root, and set the start page of the default virtual host of the http provider service (see http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e4/a8323db33ef44091b285bbe882faa4/content.htm)
Problem: Since the redirect is done by the http provider service, there is no support for jsp pages and I am therefore unable to send a HTTP 302 reponse back. I could ofcourse use javascript to do a redirect, but this will fail for some of our other applications which connect to the portal programatically.
4. Change the application sap.com/com.sap.engine.docs.example and redeploy it
Problem: Big .ear file which must be modified through NWDS . Requires a bit too much effort basically.
Any good ideas?
Dagfinn