When a tenant hosts a service 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 service. Also, tenant information and other descriptive attributes are hidden in shorter URLs, and they are more convenient in hard-copy productions.
As a result, context Context mapping capability for services (Axis2, Jar, Spring, Data Services etc.) and applications is facilitated by the following feature in the WSO2 feature repository:
Name : WSO2 Carbon - URL Mapper Feature
Identifier : org.wso2.carbon.url.mapper.feature.group
In Application Serverfacilitates this requirement.
By default, a service's endpoint URL is accessible through of the format http://localhost:port/services/service_context/ and service endpoint of a tenant is accessible through of the format http://localhost:port/services/t/tenant_domain/service_context/ . Instead of going through this long URL process, the URL Mapping . The URL mapping feature provides a way to access your hosted service endpoint with a shorter URL like such as http://serviceid.localhost:port/ in in standalone products. For example, if the actual URL of a service endpoint is https://localhost:9443/services/admin/RESTSample/, after with a URL mapping is given name as 'servicetest', you get a shorter endpoint URL as https://servicetest.localhost:9443/.
The URL mapping functionality is bundled by default in the WSO2 Application Server. If it is not included in the WSO2 product you are using, you can install it using the instructions provided in section Server Provisioning through Feature Management. Once installed, the necessary menus will appear in the product's management console.Follow the instructions below to shorten the URL of a servicesteps below explain how to use URL mapping.
1. Log on to the product's m anagement console and select "Services -> List" under the "Main" menu.
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