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Portal URL to be changed to https://

Former Member — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:58:17 GMT

Hi Experts,

While configuring Portal the URL comes as : http://***********<port number>/irj/portal

In my project there is a requirenet is that I need to change the url into secured form i.e from http to https.

The new portal url should lik

https://***********<port number>/irj/portal

Can you please suggest me how to do this.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Re: Portal URL to be changed to https://

Former Member — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:26:44 GMT

Hi,

You can configure the J2EE engine to use SSL.

After you do the necessary settings as mentioned in the below page of help you should be able to use https.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/09/392712944fc6478c9f1ff198b6b0a7/frameset.htm

Regards,

Rohan.

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Former Member — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:35:35 GMT

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Re: Portal URL to be changed to https://

Former Member — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:45:19 GMT

After https is configured and available,

can the http be turned off?

or can the http do a redirect?

https://hostname:port/irj/portal

when the user uses the above URL, he gets the usual screen

http://hostname:port/irj/portal

when the user uses this URL,

he either gets "page cannot be displayed", "fail to connect",

or he gets the https://hostname:port/irj/portal instead.

Re: Portal URL to be changed to https://

Former Member — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:48:14 GMT

Hi,

>After https is configured and available,

>can the http be turned off?

>or can the http do a redirect?

There are several solutions for this need. The one I use is to put a SAP Web Dispatcher in front of the portal.

It does a redirect to do 2 things :

Switch from a short alias to the mandatory FQDN and to force https.

So when the user types the URL : http://sapportal he is automatically redirected to

https://sapportal.domain.company.com/irj/portal

Other points : because of the Web dispatcher, I can use the standard ports 80 and 443 (instead of 5xx00) and I am ready for the future addition of application servers when the load will increase to much for a single host.

I hope this helps,

Regards,

Olivier

Re: Portal URL to be changed to https://

Former Member — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:07:07 GMT

Thanks Olivier!

Using the dispatcher is one option.

More direct configurations of the J2EE system itself?