SAP portal /index.html redirection

[Former Member]

Hi.

My question is easy, or should do I guess, but I'm looking around and don't find it:

Can be changed the automatic redirection that happens in the SAP portal when you enter:

http\s://myportal.mydomain.com:<port>

and it goes directly to:

http\s://myportal.mydomain.com:<port>/index.html

I would like it to be changed so the redirection goes to

http\s://myportal.mydomain.com:<port>/irj/portal (or just /irj)

I'm sure there must be soma way to configure it, I've been looking around visual administrator and config tool but didn't found any property that defines is...

Thanks in advance and regards.

[Former Member]

This is easily done in Visual Administrator, without having to setup Web Dispatcher or a reverse proxy. See this blog:

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/EP/Change%2bPortal%2bURL

> http\s://myportal.mydomain.com:<port>/irj/portal (or just /irj)

I suggest redirecting directly to /irj/portal Otherwise, you would be redirecting from / to /irj and then another redirect to /irj/portal. This is especially noticeable in a high latency network (e.g., connection over satellite).

Regards,

Sean

[hofmann]

Hi,

with Web Dispatcher:

icm/HTTP/redirect_0 = PREFIX=/, FOR=server.domain.tld, TO=/irj/login, PROT=http, HOST=server.domain.tld

Without the need to change the standard configuration of the Portal.

br,

Tobias

[Former Member]

Hi,

In my case, I used the redirect functionnality of the Portal SAP Web Dispatcher for this requirement.

I installed a Web Dispatcher for load balancing and to use the standard ports 80 and 443 for HTTP and HTTPS.

Regards,

Olivier

[hofmann]

Hi Olivier,

and that's (or: should be) best practice.

Don't touch the standard portal /index.html or start page. Only makes an upgrade more difficult.

A reverse proxy is meant for this. Hope that one day SAP will automatically install a WebDispatcher together with the portal. Would eliminate a lot of questions like:

- http://server/ instead of http://server:50000

- how to do load balancing

- how to show a maintenance page

br,

Tobias

[Former Member]

Hi,

Check if in VA-server-Services-HTTP Provider-Runtime-Startpage

Helps serve your purpose.

Good Luck!

Sandeep Tudumu