Is FQDN must for BSP ?

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

Is Fully Qulaified Domain Name (FQDN) a must to access SAP?

Currently my SAP server's hostname is sgssmcdv.ssmc-sgp.sc.philips.com:8000.

(In rz10 trnx i can see the icm/host_name_full).Its working good.

I want to change the FQDN to just the host name sgssmcdv.

1) will the bsp application work after the FDDN change to hostname?

2)What changes need to be done ?

thanks,

Rgds,

Jothi.P

[raja_thangamani · Accepted solution]

1. Yes, FQDN is must to run the BSP.

2. Here is the step by steby link to configure the FQDN.

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Raja T

[GrahamRobbo]

Hi Jothi,

for the BSP runtime you do need a FQDN. This is because SAP have actually hardcoded a check for this in the BSP runtime to force it upon you.

If you write your own HTTP handler you do not require a FQDN.

Cheers

Graham

[Former Member]

Hi Raja,

How do i justify my team that FQDN is must for BSP.

Here we are changing the fqdn to hostname in all intranet applications.All the appls work fine expect BSP.Is there any documentation on this?

Hi Graham,

What effort/skills is required to obuild HTTP Handler ?

Hi both,

Can i set the <b>alias</b>, which shows only the hostname in the url?

What settings needd?

Thanks,

Jothi.P

[former_member689397]

Hi Jothi,

Please refer the below blogs...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/2202a [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]

/people/brian.mckellar/blog/2003/09/25/bsp-in-depth-fully-qualified-domain-names

and Check the t.code SMICM and RZ10.

Thnx

Suriya

[GrahamRobbo]

Hi Jothi,

all you need to do is create a FQDN in your DNS domain that points to the IP address of your server. You don't need the FQDN to match the actual hostname of the SAP WAS server.

To see what I mean create an entry in your hosts file for your server. On Windows the hosts file is in the directory c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc. Add an entry like this...

192.168.0.23 mysapserver.mydomain.com

replacing the IP address with that of your WAS Server.

Then just naviagte to http://mysapserver.mydomain.com:8080/sap/. and it will work.

To write your own HTTP handler is not a complex task, in terms of reading the HTTP request and sending back a response. The hard bit is figuring out what response you want to send.

Cheers

Graham Robbo