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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Redirect default url for InfoView (when using tomcat hosted with BOE installation) in XI 3.1


If you want to shorten the InfoView url to just the machine name, here are a few steps:


· Create a file named index.html or default.html and open it in a text editor and copy the below text to the file.

##################################################
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT language="javascript">
location.href="http://boserver:8080/InfoViewApp/logon.faces";
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
##################################################

· Keep the file in "ROOT" folder of your tomcat instance and restart tomcat.

For Windows:
<path to Business Objects>\Tomcat55\webapps\ROOT
Eg. C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Tomcat55\webapps\ROOT

For UNIX:
/apps/bo31/bobje/tomcat/webapps/ROOT
· Restart Tomcat
Access the following URL and it will open up InfoView for you. Eg. http://boserver:8080

To change the port on which tomcat is running. Eg. from 8080 to 80.

You can do it by modifying the server.xml file located at <Tomcat home>\conf\server.xml.
Search the server.xml file and look for:

"<!-- Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080 -->"
<Connector URIEncoding="UTF-8" acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="8080" redirectPort="8443"/>

Modify port="8080" to port="80".
Save the server.xml file and restart tomcat.

Now you can open InfoView with url, http://boserver

To change the Tomcat URL to listen http://bi-reporting.domain.com instead of http://boserver

Many times company policies don't allow domain users / public (external) users to view the actual machine names in the urls. After installing SAP BO, you have to use your machine in the url to open up CMC / InfoView. In order to do that, you have to create a DNS alias for your BO server on the DNS server. Your DNS admin / Network admin can do it for you in just a few clicks.
To use the URL http://bi-reporting.domain.com you can create a DNS alias/CNAME for your Tomcat server.

Please follow the below Microsoft article in order to create a DNS alias for your server.

1 comment:

  1. This hepls me allot thank u very much for posting this.


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