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.
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To access your own domain, a cname is required. If a cname is not available at the moment, you can use /etc/hosts file in ubuntu or Windows\Syst em32\drivers\et c\hosts file in windows to put your domain entries pointing to the local ip. For example,
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