Creating a Short URL to access OBIEE Homepage

[Rayson Kwan]

Hello!

Does anyone know ways to create a short URL and have it redirect to the OBIEE Home page (/analytics) using Weblogic?  I have seen blogs on how easy it is to do using IIS.

I'd like to give users ability to type 'obiee' in the browser and it redirect to the main OBIEE url 'http://xxxxx:9704/analytics'.

Thanks for your help!

Ray

[Michael Neal]

You would do that via a DNS entry; create "obiee" as a alias for you URL in DNS. But I think you would have to add the domain as well like obiee.yourcompany if you don't the browser may think it is a search it needs to run.

Mike

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[Robin Moffatt]

You'd probably want to get OBIEE running on port 80 too : http://www.rittmanmead.com/2012/01/configuring-obi-11g-to-use-port-80/

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[Nica Radu]

I don't know how it's done using only Weblogic. I think you have to do an application that does the redirect and somehow deploy it on port 80.

To make this work, I configured an apache server in front of obiee with rewrite rules. This way you can also make the traffic encrypted (on https), make apache server static files (rather than presentation server) and configure client cache.

[Rayson Kwan]

Thanks Michael and Robin! 

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 6:41:12 AM UTC-5, Robin Moffatt wrote:

You'd probably want to get OBIEE running on port 80 too : http://www.rittmanmead.com/2012/01/configuring-obi-11g-to-use-port-80/

On 29 July 2013 21:58, Michael Neal <mike...@biwizards.com> wrote:

You would do that via a DNS entry; create "obiee" as a alias for you URL in DNS. But I think you would have to add the domain as well like obiee.yourcompany if you don't the browser may think it is a search it needs to run.

Mike

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Rayson Kwan <rays...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!

Does anyone know ways to create a short URL and have it redirect to the OBIEE Home page (/analytics) using Weblogic?  I have seen blogs on how easy it is to do using IIS.

I'd like to give users ability to type 'obiee' in the browser and it redirect to the main OBIEE url 'http://xxxxx:9704/analytics'.

Thanks for your help!

Ray

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[Rayson Kwan]

I think that my my main problem is using weblogic.  Thanks for your input!

[Stewart Bryson]

You could also consider using a url shortening service as well… I know with bit.ly, you can request the shortened URL. I believe that would work, though I haven't tested it with non-public URL's and those with ports in the URL. So you might still need to change the port as Robin advises.

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[Rayson Kwan]

Thanks Stewart!  Ill look into that one as well.  

[Robert Barnes]

It has been a while since I had to do this and I was lucky enough to have someone else handle the details.  Here is what I think has to be done.  Enter a DNS for your shortname (obiee) and point to your web server.  You would then need to use the 301 error to trap this short address and redirect to the the short name and include the full path such as http://obiee:9704/analytics.

DNS does not handle the full path as I recall.   Try searching DNS redirect with 301 which might take you down a path that might work for you.  

Oh, one final thing, I believe you will also need to have your server or desktop support group configure (your.company.com) the DNS Suffix list with group policies or some other method which should keep your short name from going out to a search engine.