URL Forwarding in SAP Web Dispatcher?

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus.

Looking for some help.

We need to run SAP Web Dispatcher to forward requests from public internet, to our internal server. That's fine when it's an SAP server, but we want to access a web-based Business Objects server.

When I use icm/HTTP/redirect_0 pointing to the destination, it's a URL redirect and thus will not work from public internet. Works fine when on VPN.

Can Dispatcher forward (rather than redirect) to another URL? Such as:

http://publicserver.com:8101/BusinessObjects

to

http://internalserver.localdomain:8080/BOE/BI

If so, how is this configured? Thank you

[tobias_winterhalter · Accepted solution]

Hi Steve,

Starting with release 7.20, Web Dispatcher can handle multiple systems, including external (= non-SAP) ones. This feaure is described here:

SAP Library - SAP Web Dispatcher

Look for EXTSRV.

Regards,

Tobias

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply, it worked.

For anyone looking at this thread in the future, I used the following information in my profile:

wdisp/system_0 = SID=EXT, EXTSRV=http://internalserver.local:8080, SRCURL=/

icm/server_port_0 = PROT=HTTP,PORT=8106

rdisp/mshost and ms/http_port commented out, as this is not a system with a message server.

Cheers

[gino_nys1]

Hello Steve,

Thanks for the information about the profile.

Are you now able to access the /BOE/BI from the internet (not using vpn) using the url http://publicserver.com:8101/BusinessObjects ?

Did you need to specify some other parameters in the profile of the webdispatcher beside the 2 you mentioned above ?

eg : icm/HTTP/redirect_0 or icm/HTTP/mod_0

thanks

Gino