When a tenant hosts an 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.
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6. The added URL mapping appears in the "URL Mapping" window. From there, you can edit or delete the mapping.
- Here the suffix "localhost" comes from CARBON_HOME/repository/conf/etc/url-mapping-config.xml. You can configure your own suffix and 'URL mappings limit' per web application in the mentioned configuration file. By default, the suffix is "localhost" and 'URL mappings limit' is one.
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To access your domain, a cname is required. If a cname is not available at the moment, you can use /etc/hosts file in ubuntu or Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file in windows to put your domain entries pointing to the local ip.
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