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| dbthomson@gov.pe.ca 2005-06-24, 7:53 am |
| I want to have two webservers connect to my portal server.
One will be internal and will display the welcome page of the Portal.
Then users will login to the portal to see more information.
The second webserver will be available over the internet and I want
anyone connecting to the portal to have to login before they see the
welcome page.
The reason for this is the welcome page contains information for
employees. I don't want non users connecting to the second webserver
from outside the organization and seeing the information on the welcome
page.
Is there a way to make this happen in Portal. If so how do I go about
it?
Thanks,
Doug
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| vojtech.patrny 2005-06-26, 5:37 am |
| It is pretty easy, you have to install both webservers (lets assume it will be IBM Http server) and then install websphere plugin into them (part of WAS install). Next you have to configure the plugin (just add a few lines to httpd.conf see infocenter for details).
After you have configred your Portal (for security, LDAP, databases, collaboration, etc.) you have to distribute plugin confguration to webservers (the file is WAS/config/cells/plugin.cfg.xml). If you have implemented SSL you also have to copy keystores to HTTP servers.
Now you should be able to access Portal server from both HTTP servers and you can implement the second login.
BUT ... in my opinion your architecture is wrong. With this double login (webserver from internet and portal) you have also doubled amount of work needed for administration and configuration. Hiding conent using portal capabilities (really fine grained) is highly ellegant. Or you can use the virtual portal pattern. Feel free to contact me with further details. | |
| dbthomson@gov.pe.ca 2005-06-28, 5:55 pm |
| I have both webservers (IBM Http Server) talking to portal. That is not the
problem. The problem is I don't want the external webserver to see
/wps/portal, just /wps/myportal. I thought about just removing /wps/portal
from the plugin but it seems that the actual login page exists in
/wps/portal so I get an error. Maybe virtual servers would work but I'm not
sure how to go about it. I'm sure other people have needed something like
this?
Doug
"vojtech.patrny" wrote:
> It is pretty easy, you have to install both webservers (lets assume it
> will be IBM Http server) and then install websphere plugin into them
> (part of WAS install). Next you have to configure the plugin (just add
> a few lines to httpd.conf see infocenter for details).
>
> After you have configred your Portal (for security, LDAP, databases,
> collaboration, etc.) you have to distribute plugin confguration to
> webservers (the file is WAS/config/cells/plugin.cfg.xml). If you have
> implemented SSL you also have to copy keystores to HTTP servers.
>
> Now you should be able to access Portal server from both HTTP servers
> and you can implement the second login.
>
> BUT ... in my opinion your architecture is wrong. With this double
> login (webserver from internet and portal) you have also doubled amount
> of work needed for administration and configuration. Hiding conent using
> portal capabilities (really fine grained) is highly ellegant. Or you
> can use the virtual portal pattern. Feel free to contact me with
> further details.
>
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> vojtech.patrny
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| vojtech.patrny 2005-06-29, 12:59 pm |
| Look on URL mapping from administration console, that way you can create URLs like wps/portal/mypage. But the page will still be available through the old URL too.
I would hide private content under portal login.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by dbthomson@gov.pe.ca
[B]I have both webservers (IBM Http Server) talking to portal. That is not the
problem. The problem is I don't want the external webserver to see
/wps/portal, just /wps/myportal. I thought about just removing /wps/portal
from the plugin but it seems that the actual login page exists in
/wps/portal so I get an error. Maybe virtual servers would work but I'm not
sure how to go about it. I'm sure other people have needed something like
this?
Doug |
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