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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The steps below explain how to use URL mapping.
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- Log
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- in to the
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- management console and select
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- Services
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- > List
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- under the
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- Main
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- menu.
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- From the Deployed Services
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- page
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3. If the "URL Mapper" feature is installed in the product, you can find the "URL Mappings" link in the service's dashboard.
Click the "URL Mappings" link.
4. The "URL Mappings" window opens. Click the "Add New Mapping" link.
5. Enter a URL mapping name. For example,
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- that appears, click a service to which you want to map the end point URL.
- The service's dashboard opens. It contains a link for URL Mapping. Click it.
- In the URL Mappings page that opens, click Add New Mapping link and enter a URL mapping name.
- The added URL mapping appears in the
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- URL Mapping
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- page. For example,
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Here the suffix
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localhost
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- comes from
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<PRODUCT_
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HOME>/repository/conf/etc/url-mapping-config.xml. By default, the suffix is localhost and the URL mappings limit is 1. You can configure your own suffix and
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- limit
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- per service in the mentioned configuration file.
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- With this shortened endpoint URL, you can access the service's WSDL files, tryit tool and rest calls
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- as follows:
- http://examplemap.localhost:port?wsdl - to access the wsdl of your service
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- http://examplemap.localhost:port?tryit - to access the tryit tool of your service
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- loc alhost:port/getQuote - to access rest call of your service
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- You need a cname to access your own domain
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- . If a cname is not available at the moment, you can use
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etc/hostsfile in ubuntu orWindows
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/System32/drivers/etc/hostsfile in windows to put your domain entries pointing to the local ip. For example,
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127.0.0.1
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exampleapp.localhost
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- . This is applicable only for testing purposes
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