Webcon BPS with different URLs

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Hi Nik,


i don't know the internal workings and it may work while browsing the portal, but you will surely get problems when you create URLs for example in mails. You would have to make manual adjustments here so that the recipient will be pointed to the correct URL. I wouldn't walk down this road if there's no serious reason.
Than again the user could switch to another application using the portal navigation or search. So i don't really see a benefit here.

Perhaps you could use SharePoint Webparts to show the applications or create a 'dashboard' with tiles pointing to the applications. Of course, this will not solve the links in mail issue but may help your users.


Best regards,
Daniel

Hi,
As Daniel said, it could get tricky, depends on what you want to achieve.
But if the question is only about simply pointing "app1/" directly to your webcon application at "url/db/app/x", then maybe rewrite/redirection url rule will work for you.

In my case, I am using rewrite rule temporary for migration purposes, so it is redirecting "https://bps/<request>" to "https://sps/WEBCONBPS/<request>" (my example in attachment).
You can configure Rewrite rule in IIS, firstly installing that feature with Web Platform installer. Also you have to set correct bindings in IIS site, which your DNS should resolve as your server address.

The WEBCON BPS Portal can use one URL address only. It is an official WEBCON statement.

Technically you can use any rewrite methods, intelligent reverse proxy servers, smart application firewalls but... it is not officially supported.

As Daniel and Sebastian wrote, publishing one virtual WEBCON BPS application with a URL different from the WEBCON BPS Portal URL may cause some (non-critical) errors with emails, reports, Designer Studio, services, and others.

Thanks a lot for your clarifications, Daniel, Sebastian and Pawel :-)

Best regards, Nik