Monday, 7 November 2011

Shorten cognos URL from http://server-name/ibmcognos to cognos10?

Hi Guys,

Instead of users typing http://servername/cognos10 everytime or accesing it from favourites .I want them to directly type cognos10 in browser and they should be able to able to access cognos. Now i know this is outside scope of cognos developer.But doing it just for fun .. Just another Geek
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There are 2 things I have done to accomplish this at my company.

1 - Create a DNS Alias for the server -- Domain name service
2 - Set an HTML Redirector on the root web server

The alias allows my users to type in
http://cognos
To get to the cognos environment and since we have pass through authentication it takes them right to their default Cognos view.

The alias translates http://cognos to http://really_long_servername.that.is.fully.qualified

The redirector simply redirects traffic to the server to the Cognos cgi directory

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