URL shortening is a widely-used technique, which makes long URLs significantly shorter in length but still directed to the correct address. This is achieved by an HTTP redirect on a short domain name.
When a tenant hosts a Web application to be used by external parties, it should ideally have a short URL. Shorter URLs are easier to be memorized and typed, which eliminates the need to log-in to access the application. Also, tenant information and other descriptive attributes are hidden in shorter URLs and they are more convenient in hard-copy productions and social media services.
The URL shortening mapping functionality is provided by the following feature of the WSO2 feature repository:
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In App server, the web application of admin can be accessible through http://localhost:port/webappname and web application of tenant can be accessible through http://localhost:port/webapps/t/tenant_domain/webappname. Instead of going through this long URL process, we provide a way to access your hosted web application with a short shorter URL like https://appid.localhost:port in standalone products. if your App Application server is fronted with load balacher, then depending on the port of Load balancher https://appid.localhost can be used.
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Follow the instructions below to shorten map the URL of an application.
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