Accessing Enterprise Portal from the Internet with Web Dispatcher

[mark_manuel2]

Hi,

I am currently configuring access to our EP from the internet with SAP Web Dispatcher. After logging in to the Portal some iViews doesn't work. After checking the URL being called, I found out that some iViews are being called using the local server name i.e. http://myserver.localdomain.com:8030/sap/bc/webdypro/sap/*.

How do I configure the Web Dispatcher to replace myserver.localdomain.com:8030 to external.internetdomain.com:8030?

I've already tried using info.icr to configure it but couldn't make it work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark

[Former Member]

Hi Mark,

The problem is when the portal generates absolute URLs which are not reverse proxy aware.

The solution is to use the Proxy Mapping feature of the Portal J2EE server accessible with Visualadmin for the dispatcher (service HTTP Provider)

The documentation is here :

[Proxy Mapping|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/b8/437d46d4451e4c9ab756e272a1581d/frameset.htm]

In your case the value for the Key ProxyMappings should look something like :

50000=(Host:external.internetdomain.com,Port:8030,Scheme:http,Override:true)

Hope this helps...

Regards,

Olivier

[mark_manuel2]

Hi Olivier,

Unfortunately this solution wouldn't work. I'm using the web dispatcher to connect to J2EE Enterprise Portal (Port:50000) but one of the iViews is an ABAP Web Dynpro application connecting to another server (Port:8030). The URL that gets populated for the iView still uses the local server name hence the reason it doesn't get resolved when the portal is accessed from the internet.

Thank you,

Mark

[Former Member]

Hi,

Then you have to change the URL of the iview to make it use its own reverse proxy.

Regards,

Olivier

[Former Member]

Hi Mark,

Is server between portal and internet running in DMZ ?

[mark_manuel2]

Yes it is.

Thanks,

Mark