ActiveSync Virtual Directory External URL

Data Center with new Internet pipe. Current ExternalURL is blank and InternalURL is set to local server https://dns-name/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync. If we modify these entries to point to a load balanced published DNS name is a restart required for it to
be applied?

Hi WillHJohn,
If your change some configuration about virtual directory, I suggest use “iisreset” to restart IIS.
I find a similar thread with internet and CAS high available, for your reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b80f9316-9581-4fa3-a130-a4c6c668a91a/cas-server-for-second-webmail-url?forum=exchangesvrsecuremessagi
Best Regards,
Allen Wang

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Exchange 2010 - Virtual Directory Internal & External URL's with Wildcard Cert

Hi Guys
I am trying to determine if my Exchange 2010 server Virtual Directory URL's are setup according to best practice. I'm sure anyone with good Exchange experience will instantly be able to tell me if my Virtual Directory DNS is correct or could cause issues.
Scenario:
Hosted Exchange 2010 SP1. Multiple client mail domains hosted
2x CA, 2x HT, 2x MB, 2x DC
Wildcard *.example.co.za certificate being used on CA servers
AD domain is he.example.za.net
CA Server naming example: ca1.he.example.za.net, ca2.he.example.za.net
he.example.net DNS is done by DC servers
External name used by clients: outlook.example.co.za (For Outlook setup and OWA access)
outlook.example.co.za has two A records pointing to the CA IP's
PROBLEM/CONCERN:
We have a random OWA log out issue that we believe might be due to ambiguous DNS names being used.
If I change the Virtual Directories External URL to be the FQDN of the server, we get a Certificate Error in clients (due to the .co.za Wildcard). The external URL clients use
must be on .co.za.
So are the Virtual Directory URL's causing the CA servers to loose track of who is authenticated in where (leading to OWA disconnection)? Is it fine to load balance the CA servers with the DNS the way we are doing currently? Any other issues you see?
Current Virtual Directory settings:
Note that they are identical on CA1 and CA2
[PS] C:>Get-OabVirtualDirectory -server ca2 |fl *url
InternalUrl : https://outlook.example.co.za/OAB
ExternalUrl : https://outlook.example.co.za/OAB
[PS] C:>Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Server ca2 |fl *url
InternalNLBBypassUrl : https://ca2.he.example.za.net/ews/exchange.asmx
InternalUrl          : https://outlook.example.co.za/ews/Exchange.asmx
ExternalUrl          : https://outlook.example.co.za/ews/Exchange.asmx
[PS] C:>Get-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory -Server ca2 |fl *url
MobileClientCertificateAuthorityURL :
InternalUrl                         : https://outlook.example.co.za/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
ExternalUrl                         : https://outlook.example.co.za/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
[PS] C:>Get-EcpVirtualDirectory -Server ca2 |fl *url
InternalUrl : https://ca2.he.example.za.net/ecp
ExternalUrl : https://outlook.example.co.za/ecp
[PS] C:>Get-OwaVirtualDirectory -Server ca2 |fl *url
Url             : {}
Exchange2003Url :
FailbackUrl     :
InternalUrl     : https://ca2.he.example.za.net/owa
ExternalUrl     : https://outlook.example.co.za/owa
[PS] C:>Get-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory |fl *url, server
InternalUrl :
ExternalUrl :
Server      : CA1
InternalUrl : https://outlook.example.co.za/
ExternalUrl : https://outlook.example.co.za/
Server      : CA2
REALLY APPRECIATE SOME EXPERT ADVISE. Thanks.

Hi Kane,
Why did not you use cas array to load balance client connectivity?
If you create a CAS array, you can assign an virtual IP (VIP) for the CAS array FQDN (e.g CASarray.example.za.net), and then point all the Virtual Directories internal URL to CAS array fqdn;
For external, you can point outlook.example.co.za to VIP which had been assigned to CAS array.
I recommend you refer to the following article to understand CAS array:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332317(v=exchg.141).aspx#CASarray
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ucedsg/archive/2009/12/06/how-to-setup-an-exchange-2010-cas-array-to-load-balance-mapi.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/03/23/demystifying-the-cas-array-object-part-1.aspx
Best regards,
Niko Cheng
TechNet Community Support

Using deployment plan to change virtual directory mapping

Hi all,
Have anyone tried this before?
I have a deployment plan to add virtual directory to my weblogic descriptors as follow:
Inside <variable-definitions> tag:
<variable>
      <name>LocalPath</name>
      <value>C:/</value>
    </variable>
    <variable>
      <name>VirtualPath</name>
      <value>/Temp/*</value>
    </variable> Then in to add the virtual directory to weblogic.xml:
<module-descriptor external="false">
      <root-element>weblogic-web-app</root-element>
      <uri>WEB-INF/weblogic.xml</uri>
      <variable-assignment>
         <name>LocalPath</name>
         <xpath>/weblogic-web-app/virtual-directory-mapping/local-path</xpath>
      </variable-assignment>
      <variable-assignment>
         <name>VirtualPath</name>
         <xpath>/weblogic-web-app/virtual-directory-mapping/url-pattern</xpath>
         <operation>add</operation>
      </variable-assignment>
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I also tried using the xpath for url-pattern as followed:
<xpath>/weblogic-web-app/virtual-directory-mapping/[local-path="C:/"]/url-pattern</xpath>
But I have the same error. The <url-patter> element is not added correctly to the virtual directory mapping tag.
It is supposed to work. Anyone has done this before ? or is this a bug of deployment plan.
Thank you very much.
Regards
K.

Hi Jay,
I have looked at your link and modified my plan.xml accordingly ( the original plan is automatically generated by weblogic ). But I still get the same error. Could you have a look and tell me what's wrong?
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<deployment-plan xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/deployment-plan" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/deployment-plan http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/deployment-plan/1.0/deployment-plan.xsd">
<application-name>app</application-name>
<variable-definition>
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      <value>3601</value>
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    <name>firstNode</name>
    <value></value>
    </variable>
    <variable>
      <name>LocalPath</name>
      <value>C:\</value>
    </variable>
    <variable>
      <name>VirtualPath</name>
      <value>/Temp/*</value>
    </variable>
</variable-definition>
<module-override>
    <module-name>ReviewApp.ear</module-name>
    <module-type>ear</module-type>
    <module-descriptor external="false">
      <root-element>weblogic-application</root-element>
      <uri>META-INF/weblogic-application.xml</uri>
      <variable-assignment>
        <name>SessionDescriptor_timeoutSecs_12786382366650</name>
        <xpath>/weblogic-application/session-descriptor/timeout-secs</xpath>
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    <module-descriptor external="false">
      <root-element>application</root-element>
      <uri>META-INF/application.xml</uri>
    </module-descriptor>
    <module-descriptor external="true">
      <root-element>wldf-resource</root-element>
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    </module-descriptor>
</module-override>
<module-override>
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    <module-type>war</module-type>
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      <root-element>weblogic-web-app</root-element>
      <uri>WEB-INF/weblogic.xml</uri>
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        <name>firstNode</name>
        <xpath>/weblogic-web-app/virtual-directory-mapping</xpath>
        <operation>add</operation>
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      <variable-assignment>
         <name>LocalPath</name>
         <xpath>/weblogic-web-app/virtual-directory-mapping/local-path</xpath>
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Virtual directory in iplanet web server 4.1

Hi
We are new to iplanet web server4.1 .we need to run the jsp files from
weblogic 5.1.we have done the following configuration
1)changed the obj.conf file as per documents in weblogic.
2)changed the mime types for jsp from magnus-internal/jsp to text/jsp .
3)i have created a virtual directory with url prefix as "ashish" and Legacy
JSP directory as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles"
4)i have file test.jsp with the path as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/test.jsp"
5)in the browser i give the path as http://atg/ashish/test.jsp where atg is
machine name.now the problem is instead of looking for the file as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/test.jsp"
it look as "c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/ashish/test.jsp"
because of this it does not find the file .
6)if i create ashish folder in c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles
then it finds the file.
what is the problem .???
also on obj.conf file i have written as
Service method="(GET|HEAD|POST|PUT)" type="text/jsp" fn="wl-proxy"
WebLogicHost="192.168.100.78" WebLogicPort="7001"
i have omitted pathprepend directive above.
Any ideas for this problem.What is the concept of virtual directory which is
there in Internet Information Server.
Thanks in advance
Ashish

Please see my response in the JSP newsgroup
Ashish Nathani wrote:
Hi
We are new to iplanet web server4.1 .we need to run the jsp files from
weblogic 5.1.we have done the following configuration
1)changed the obj.conf file as per documents in weblogic.
2)changed the mime types for jsp from magnus-internal/jsp to text/jsp .
3)i have created a virtual directory with url prefix as "ashish" and Legacy
JSP directory as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles"
4)i have file test.jsp with the path as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/test.jsp"
5)in the browser i give the path as http://atg/ashish/test.jsp where atg is
machine name.now the problem is instead of looking for the file as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/test.jsp"
it look as "c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/ashish/test.jsp"
because of this it does not find the file .
6)if i create ashish folder in c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles
then it finds the file.
what is the problem .???
also on obj.conf file i have written as
Service method="(GET|HEAD|POST|PUT)" type="text/jsp" fn="wl-proxy"
WebLogicHost="192.168.100.78" WebLogicPort="7001"
i have omitted pathprepend directive above.
Any ideas for this problem.What is the concept of virtual directory which is
there in Internet Information Server.
Thanks in advance
Ashish

Oracle Virtual Directory vs. Oracle External Authentication Plug-in

I am working in Windows 2003 Server platform and I have Oracle Portal 10g R2 with Oracle Single Sign On 10g R2 setup. I also have Microsoft Active Directory setup. I want to use Microsoft Active Directory users from Oracle Portal and as per my understanding I could use Oracle External Authentication Plug-in or Oracle Virtual Directory for this purpose. I would like to use Oracle Virtual Directory if possible. Could someone please tell me if I could use Oracle Virtual Directory or not?
Thanks.

Yeah, I could use Oracle External Authentication Plug-in, but I am having issues with running the oidspadi.sh script on my Windows 2003 server environment. I am running this script using Cygwin's latest software, but for some reason I get the following error message.
: command not found8:
: command not found8:
: command not found3:
: command not found7:
: command not found1:
: command not found8:
: command not found9:
: command not found0: clear
OID Active Directory Plug-in Configuration
Please make sure Database and OID are up and running.
: command not found7:
: command not found0:
oidspadi.sh: line 103: syntax error near unexpected token 'fi'
'idspadi.sh: line 103:' fi
Therefore, I was trying to find an alternative solution, which will be using Virtual Directory. Right now, I have installed Oracle Virtual Directory on my testing system and I have both Active Directory server and OID server part of LDAP Browser. My goal is to using Oracle Portal to log-in and first look for the user in OID if not found then look in Active Directory. Can this be accomplished using Oracle Virtual Directory?
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Why do I need ActiveSync External URL?

Hello, All!
We are starting migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013.
We've already installed 3 Exchange 2013 Servers and configured them also.
The External IP for ActiveSync is bounded to F5 that moves user's request towards ISA that is located in our DMZ and ISA moves the request to Exchange Servers.
One problem that I'm facing now and it's: Do I need to configure External URL for ActiveSync on Exchange 2013?
As far as I know, that External URL of ActiveSync is being used for Autodiscover process only.
And after that the only URL that is used it's Internal one.
Am I right? Where I can find accurate information about External and Internal URL's usage?
BR,
Pavel

As long as autodiscover is in Place active sync wont be needed in many cases.
Some issue could occure if its not configured:
http://www.expta.com/2013/12/exchange-2013-cu3-upgrade-removes.html
Please mark as helpful if you find my contribution useful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you. Thank you! Off2work

DR within Same Site Using Different Virtual Directory Names

We are deploying Exchange 2013 and have setup a set of 2013 servers in a different building we would like to use for DR.
We have 2 servers in our main datacenter behind a load balancer and 2 servers in a 2nd datacenter within the same DAG. So mailbox databases are already on the servers. However for the CAS role, we are looking at just setting the DR servers to
have different virtual directory names so in a DR situation, we just need to tell people to access owadr.domain.com instead of owa.domain.com. The DR servers would be behind a 2nd load balancer only configured to talk to those two servers.
Both of these datacenters are in the same AD site, and the network vLANS are stretched across each datacenter so DAG replication is already working. The primary serves are already working behind the production load balancer. Just need to make
sure we are going in the right direction for the DR setup. Our public certificate already names the names of owa.domain.com, owadr.domain.com, and autodiscover.domain.com on the cert. We are not really concerned so much with Outlook/ActiveSync
traffic in a DR situation, but would just like OWA to be a temporary solution while the main datacenter recovers. So a different virtual directory name should work right?

Hi,
From your description, I know four servers are in the same site but with different building. So you create two load balancer. And it seems you add the DAG members into Load Balancer. Could you confirm if you use WNLB?
In fact, WNLB can't be used on Exchange servers where mailbox DAGs are also being used because WNLB is incompatible with Windows failover clustering. If you're using an Exchange 2013 DAG and you want to use WNLB, you need to have the Client Access server
role and the Mailbox server role running on separate servers. See more details in the following link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj898588(v=exchg.150).aspx.For
For your environment, I have a suggestion: we can deploy two servers with only CAS role installed. One cas in one datacenter. Put them in one Load Balancer. Point OWA URL to this load balancer. So when one datacenter is down, the request will
go to anoter CAS in another datacenter. And the OWA URL is not changed..
But if you want to use two OWA URLs for each datacenter. owa.domain.com and owadr.domain.com. You can set OWA internal URL and external url on CAS servers in DR site to use owadr.domain.com. And ask users to login
https://owadr.domain.com/owa instead of
https://owa.domain.com/owa when the primary datacenter is down.
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MAPI over HTTP not working correctly, Outlook 2013 clients prompting for credentials during profile creation or opening depending on security of virtual directory

ENVIRONMENT
-1 Exchange 2013 SP1 CU7 server with all roles that is also a hybrid server with Office 365 tenant, mailboxes are all on premise only LYNC online is being utilized right now.
-Exchange 2013 public folders
-Mix of Outlook 2013 SP1 and Outlook 2010 SP3 clients all fully update to day as of Feb 2015
Outlook anywhere is working perfectly across all clients both internally and externally using autodiscover. Both Outlook 2013 and 2010 clients can open the program and create a profile automatically via autodiscover and no additional logon prompts
are seen.
We set the internal and external mapi virtual directory URLs to a valid URL that also matches the Exchange 2013 SSL certificate. We set the security to ntlm, negotiate on the mapi virtual directory. We reset IIS and enabled mapi over http in
the org config. We run in to problems here.
Outlook 2010 clients appear to be working fine. We can create a new profile and open and close Outlook without any logon prompts and verify that MAPIHTTP and Negotiate are used to connect to Exchange.
Outlook 2013 clients are having problems. As soon as we try to create a profile it says your administrator has made a change that requires you to restart outlook and then a windows logon prompt appears. If we authenticate Outlook will open and connect.
This logon prompt should not occur. We can confirm that it is connecting via MAPI HTTP and Negotiate.
If we set the mapi virtual directory to NTLM only then a logon prompt also appears during every open of Outlook 2013. We can confirm that it is trying to connect with MAPIHTTP via NTLM in the outlook connection test screen.
I do not understand this behavior by Outlook 2013 which was supposed to be designed with MAPI HTTP in mind. I would think the same issues would occur with Outlook 2010 but they do not. I am not sure how to resolve this and I am looking for help.

I have the same problem. Exchange and Outlook are both up to date. After creating a new profile Outlook prompts for username/password. A lot of users also get this prompt while
working - the profiles have been "migrated" from Exchange server 2010. <o:p></o:p>
Niko, as i can see in your screenshot you do not have Mapi over HTTP enabled. Why? You can change settings in the security tab – if you have Mapi over
HTTP enabled all options are grayed out (please correct me if I
am wrong):
This is a very annoying thing – does anybody else have the same problem?
Any suggestions on this?
Marc

What is Exchange Virtual directory and its role?

Hello there,
I am new to Exchange and I started reading about Exchange Virtual directories. I am struggling to understand the concept behind Virtual directories in Exchange and what is the role of this component. Can someone please shed some light and better yet supplemental
information to help me understand the concepts behind it? Let me know please. I am looking forward to any reply that would help.
Regards,
Lotusmail1
Franz Garcia

Hi,
Thank you for your question.
Exchange virtual directory is a directory which store some necessary URL to point to correspondent web page, those URL can provide service for user by Exchange server. it include the following component:
On Exchange CAS server:
Autodiscover: An important function of the Autodiscover service is to provide access to features for clients that are connected to your messaging environment. These features include the web-based offline address book (OAB), the Availability service, and
Unified Messaging (UM). The Autodiscover service must be deployed and configured correctly for clients to automatically connect to features.
ECP: The Exchange Control Panel is a Web application that runs on a Client Access Server providing services for the Exchange organization. This Exchange Control Panel is installed automatically when you install a Client Access server. To manage Exchange
from just about anywhere, you simply need to enter the URL path for the application in your browser’s Address field. You can then access the Exchange Control Panel. By default, the Exchange Control Panel URL is
https://yourserver.yourdomain.com/ecp.
EWS: Exchange Web Services virtual directories support the calendar sharing and other functionality offered by Exchange Web Services. The Exchange Web services included in Exchange provide an XML messaging interface that enables you to manage Exchange store
items and access Exchange server functionality from client applications.
Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync: Exchange ActiveSync is a client protocol that lets you synchronize a mobile device with your Exchange mailbox.
OAB: An offline address book (OAB) is a copy of an address list collection that’s been downloaded so a Microsoft Outlook user can access the address book while disconnected from the server. Microsoft Exchange generates the new OAB files and then compresses
the files and places them on a local share. You can decide which address lists are made available to users who work offline, and you can also configure the method by which the address books are distributed.
OWA: By default, when you install Microsoft Exchange 2013, you enable Outlook Web App. Microsoft Outlook Web App lets users access their Exchange mailbox from almost any Web browser.The Client Access server role provides proxy and redirection services for
Outlook Web App.
PowerShell: The Exchange Management Shell, built on Windows PowerShell technology, provides a powerful command-line interface for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 that enables automation of administrative tasks. With the Shell, you can manage every aspect
of Exchange. You can enable new email accounts, create Send and Receive connectors, configure database properties, manage distribution groups, and more. The Shell can perform every task that can be performed by the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) plus
things that can't be done in the EAC. In fact, when you do something in the EAC, it's the Shell that's doing the work behind the scenes
On Exchange mailbox server:
PowerShell: this is the same with front CAS server.
We could refer to the following link:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg247612(v=exchg.150).aspx
If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know.
Best Regard,
Jim
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Programmatically set virtual directory mapping at run time

Hi all
Do you know of anyway to do it.
I can't found MBean for weblogic descriptor.
Thanks

Hi Jay
I am on it. But I continue having validation problem:
VALIDATION PROBLEMS WERE FOUND C:\Users\Napoleon\AppData\Roaming\JDeveloper\system11.1.1.2.36.55.36\DefaultDomain\servers\DefaultServer\upload\PictureApp\app\planplan.xml:0: problem: cvc-complex-type.2.4c: Expected element 'url-pattern@http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app' before the end of the content in element virtual-directory-mapping@http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app:<C:\Users\Napoleon\AppData\Roaming\JDeveloper\system11.1.1.2.36.55.36\DefaultDomain\servers\DefaultServer\upload\PictureApp\app\planplan.xml>
this is my plan:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<deployment-plan xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/deployment-plan" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/deployment-plan http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/deployment-plan/1.0/deployment-plan.xsd">
<application-name>app</application-name>
<variable-definition>
<variable>
<name>SessionDescriptor_timeoutSecs_12698451432940</name>
<value>3602</value>
</variable>
<variable>
<name>SessionDescriptor_invilidationInterval</name>
<value>70</value>
</variable>
<variable>
<name>VirtualDirectory_diskD</name>
<value>/Pictures/*</value>
</variable>
<variable>
<name>Map</name>
<value></value>
</variable>
<variable>
<name>LocalPath_diskD</name>
<value>D:/Pictures</value>
</variable>
</variable-definition>
<module-override>
<module-name>PictureApp.ear</module-name>
<module-type>ear</module-type>
<module-descriptor external="false">
<root-element>weblogic-application</root-element>
<uri>META-INF/weblogic-application.xml</uri>
<variable-assignment>
<name>SessionDescriptor_timeoutSecs_12698451432940</name>
<xpath>/weblogic-application/session-descriptor/timeout-secs</xpath>
</variable-assignment>
<variable-assignment>
<name>SessionDescriptor_invilidationInterval</name>
<xpath>/weblogic-application/session-descriptor/invalidation-interval-secs</xpath>
</variable-assignment>
</module-descriptor>
<module-descriptor external="false">
<root-element>application</root-element>
<uri>META-INF/application.xml</uri>
</module-descriptor>
<module-descriptor external="true">
<root-element>wldf-resource</root-element>
<uri>META-INF/weblogic-diagnostics.xml</uri>
</module-descriptor>
</module-override>
<module-override>
<module-name>Picture.war</module-name>
<module-type>war</module-type>
<module-descriptor external="false">
<root-element>weblogic-web-app</root-element>
<uri>WEB-INF/weblogic.xml</uri>
<variable-assignment>
<name>Map</name>
<xpath>/weblogic-web-app/virtual-directory-mapping</xpath>
<operation>add</operation>
</variable-assignment>
<variable-assignment>
<name>LocalPath_diskD</name>
<xpath>/weblogic-web-app/virtual-directory-mapping/local-path</xpath>
<operation>add</operation>
</variable-assignment>
<variable-assignment>
<name>VirtualDirectory_diskD</name>
<xpath>/weblogic-web-app/virtual-directory-mapping/[local-path="D:/Pictures"]/url-pattern</xpath>
<operation>add</operation>
</variable-assignment>
</module-descriptor>
<module-descriptor external="false">
<root-element>web-app</root-element>
<uri>WEB-INF/web.xml</uri>
</module-descriptor>
</module-override>
<config-root>C:\Users\Napoleon\AppData\Roaming\JDeveloper\system11.1.1.2.36.55.36\DefaultDomain\servers\DefaultServer\upload\PictureApp\app\plan</config-root>
</deployment-plan>
I have the url-pattern assigned already. Can you help me look at it.
And one more question: if I want to define multiple virtual directory mapping, how can it be done? as the link is only virtual-directory-mapping/ it needs something to distinguish between the different virtual directory mapping right?

Creation of virtual directory for EPMA during 11.1.2.2 configuration

Hi Experts,
I was trying to install and configure the EPM 11.1.2.2 products on a POC machine with Windows 2008 R2. I was able to install and configure some products and i was facing issue with the EPMA configuration where it struck during "Creation of EPMA virtual Directory". I can see the virtual directory created but not sure why this is not finishing up and just struck at this level, deployment is all fine. Attached the config log for any reference
I have enabled Windows authentication in IIS 7 and disabled Basic authentication
Please let me know if anyone has come across this issue and thanks for your help
[2012-11-14T11:33:51.278-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01496] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] IIS version is 7
[2012-11-14T11:33:51.278-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01516] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Removing virtual directory: hyperion-bpma-server
[2012-11-14T11:33:51.278-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01427] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.ant.AbstractAntConfigurator] Executing target: removeVirtualDir
[2012-11-14T11:33:52.729-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01508] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Creating virtual directory: hyperion-bpma-server(2:2), configRoot: C:\OracleEPM\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\Foundation\BPMA\AppServer\DimensionServer\WebService
[2012-11-14T11:33:52.729-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01504] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Creating application pool: DefaultAppPool
[2012-11-14T11:33:52.745-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01427] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.ant.AbstractAntConfigurator] Executing target: createApplicationPool
[2012-11-14T11:33:56.769-08:00] [EPMCFG] [NOTIFICATION] [EPMCFG-01001] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] trace: Updating .Net version of application pool...
[2012-11-14T11:33:56.769-08:00] [EPMCFG] [WARNING] [EPMCFG-01001] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] trace: .Net version v2.0 will be used
[2012-11-14T11:33:56.769-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01427] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.ant.AbstractAntConfigurator] Executing target: updateApplicationPoolManagedRuntime
[2012-11-14T11:33:58.142-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01510] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Using default application pool for hyperion-bpma-server
[2012-11-14T11:33:58.142-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01427] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.ant.AbstractAntConfigurator] Executing target: createVirtualDir
[2012-11-14T11:34:00.997-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01427] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.ant.AbstractAntConfigurator] Executing target: installAspDotNet
[2012-11-14T11:34:02.573-08:00] [EPMCFG] [NOTIFICATION] [EPMCFG-01499] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Going to allow Web Service Extension.
[2012-11-14T11:34:02.573-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01427] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.ant.AbstractAntConfigurator] Executing target: enableWebServiceExtension
[2012-11-14T11:34:04.008-08:00] [EPMCFG] [NOTIFICATION] [EPMCFG-01500] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Web Service Extension allowing complete.
[2012-11-14T11:34:04.008-08:00] [EPMCFG] [NOTIFICATION] [EPMCFG-01499] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Going to allow Web Service Extension.
[2012-11-14T11:34:04.008-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01427] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.ant.AbstractAntConfigurator] Executing target: enableWebServiceExtension
[2012-11-14T11:34:05.552-08:00] [EPMCFG] [NOTIFICATION] [EPMCFG-01500] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Web Service Extension allowing complete.
[2012-11-14T11:34:05.552-08:00] [EPMCFG] [NOTIFICATION] [EPMCFG-01499] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Going to allow Web Service Extension.
[2012-11-14T11:34:05.552-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-01427] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.ant.AbstractAntConfigurator] Executing target: enableWebServiceExtension
[2012-11-14T11:34:07.050-08:00] [EPMCFG] [NOTIFICATION] [EPMCFG-01500] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.config.ant.iis.IISConfigurator] Web Service Extension allowing complete.
[2012-11-14T11:34:07.050-08:00] [EPMCFG] [TRACE] [EPMCFG-07380] [oracle.EPMCFG] [tid: 23] [ecid: 0000Jg0PMStFw005zzL6iW1Gcyyx000005,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.cis.utils.os.windows.IisUtils] Getting IIS7 Default site name
Regards

Why did you modify analytics.ear ?
Should'nt you make changes here : Middleware_Home>\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1
\analyticsRes\WEB_INF\web.xml
Follow this note : OBIEE 11g: How To Access Custom Files Through URL By Creating Virtual Directory In Weblogic Server? [ID 1408240.1]
And you should be able to deploy that virtual directory and access it after authentication.
HTH,
SVS

How to set up a virtual directory on Application Server

The environment of my application is Application server 9i version 2, on windows 2000, form 9.0.2.
I am trying to get the ORACLE 9i forms show_document to work.
I have successfully created an out file in the server directory.
I need the document to be displayed by the form.
Let me tell you more about my server.
I installed Oracle application server on drive E.
I copied my application to drive E and named PY which has 4 folders including :
E:\PY\fmb (for fmb)
E:\PY\forms (for fmx)
E:\PY\sql (for sql programs)
E:\PY\locrep (for lst files which are generated from sql programs)
Someone told me I should create a virtual directory, e.g. docs, in your httpd.conf file to point to e:\py\locrep
I've seen 4 httpd.conf files so I don't know which one I should modify and what should I type in exactly on what part ????
E:\ora9ias\apache\apache\conf\httpd.conf
E:\ora9ias\apache\apache\conf\httpd.conf.default
E:\ora9ias\apache\apache\conf\httpd.conf.smibak
E:\ora9ias\dcm\config\plugins\apache\httpd.conf
After I modify the httpd.conf file, so what will my URL be ? Also, I have a lot of reports, I would like to run different reports at the same time ??????
Thank you very much.
Trang

The best way to edit httpd.conf is using Enterprise Manager Website. Open this site (http://machine:1810) and drill down on your application server, and then on HTTP Server. Open link Advanced server Properties. Now you see a list of all configuration files. Click on a file to open it.
To add the virtual path:
- You could best add your virtual path in file forms90.conf (it is included in httpd.conf with the <include> tag).
- Within this file you already find some virtual path definitions: Look for the AliasMatch tag, e.g. for the 'forms90/html' virtual directory.
- Copy this line and change 'html' into the directory name you like to use, e.g. 'myfiles'. Map it to the physical directory (on your E: drive) where your files are. (E: must not be a network drive, however).
- browse to your files using: http://machine:7777/forms90/myfiles/filename.
Peter

How can I use a relative path in a Virtual Directory tag?

That is probably a bit vague, so I will explain in more detail. We are using BEA
WL Portal 7.0 and our team is developing multiple portal applications. We have
a core set of portlets (consist of JSPs) that we need to reuse in multiple portals
(Web Apps), however from a version control perspective they need to reside in
one common location. So, the solution I came up with is to use a virtual directory
for the the common directory and add this to weblogic.xml for each web app. This
works fine. However, each developer has different directory names for their project...ClearCase
view names to be specific... plus we have integration views, QA views, etc...
so we can't have any "C:\mystuff\mydomain" absolute paths anywhere in the portal
configuration. Does anyone know of a way to use a relative path for a virtual
directory? I have tried various versions of ../../ for example to try to backup
and then recurse down to the directory, but this is not working. Any ideas?
By the way this is basially just a hack for development, when we package the WAR
for QA, Prod, etc... we copy needed files and there are no virtual directories.
In other words, I don't care how "creative" solution is :)
This is what I have right now, which I need to replace with a relative directory
name:
<virtual-directory-mapping>
<local-path>C:/Projects/TouchPoint_v1.0_Fix/tp_portal/bipiportals/beaApps/portalApp/tp-shared</local-path>
<url-pattern>*</url-pattern>
</virtual-directory-mapping>

Well, in fact you can in a special case :
- The file you want to access is in the same directory than the applet (or in a sub-directory)
If this condition is OK, you can open the file using :
java.io.InputStream MyInputStream = <YourAppletClassName>.class.getResourceAsStream("sidira_interactif2.svg")
With this stream, its easy to read the file content.

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Hi there,
The last part is always the hardest. I succesfully converted my Apache configuration to the SunONE setup but one section and I fail to grasp where I'm going wrong...
SunONE Webserver 6.1SP5, I have quite a few virtual servers divided over several virtual classes. And now I'm trying to configure a 'virtual directory' (pfx2dir nametrans) limited to a single virtual server but no matter what I try I can't get it to work...
In the administration guide I read about the NameTrans directive and how it should be used in the default object (in obj.conf ofcourse). So when I have something like this all works as it should, but for all virtual servers in the class:
<Object name="default">
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/files" dir="/opt/websites/catslair/data"
</Object>So when reading up even more I came across the NSAPI programmers guide which explained that you can have both <Object> and <Client> tags. Because of the 'urlhost' parameter with the Client tag I figured that it should be possible to limit the NameTrans line mentioned above to but one virtual server:
<Client urlhost="catslair.intranet.lan">
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/files" dir="/opt/websites/catslair/data"
</Client>But whenever I use this approach the server refuses to start and presents me with an error:
[13/May/2006:16:38:10] config (19621): CORE3185: Invalid configuration: File /usr/local/sun/SUNWwbsvr/https-magi.intranet.lan/config/server.xml, line 178, column 99: HTTP3258: Error processing Mirrors.obj.conf line 51: HTTP2215: directive outside objectAt first I didn't understand exactly what it meant, I even stumbled upon a bug report which triggered the same error (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4979377) but after reading up on this I can only conclude that NameTrans can only be used within an <Object> block. The manuals also hint into this direction since it becomes obvious that the preffered approach is using this in the default object.
So picture my surprise when I came across http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6252/npgobjcn.html#wp1041206 in the NSAPI programmers guide, its past the table. One of the examples shows this approach:
<Client odds="25%">
NameTrans fn="redirect" from="/Pogues" url-prefix="http://pogues.example.com"
</Client>Because I was sure about urlhost being a parameter for the Client tag I tried copying the above example, but when I give it a try I'm once again greeted with the error I mentioned earlier "directive outside object".
So can anyone please point me in the right direction? Is it possible to setup a virtual directory for a single virtual server and if so how do I proceed since <Client> doesn't seem to work. thanks in advance for any tips you can give me.
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Lion-O

Thanks a lot for the example, that fixed the problem.
I've been reading the NSAPI programmers guide several times now and I was under the impression that you should either use <object> or <client>, never thought about this approach. Now when I re-read it is makes sense, but wasn't very clear at first.
I think I'll e-mail Sun to suggest an addition of the <Object> tag in their <Client> tag example (http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6252/npgobjcn.html#wp1045056) to make things a little more clear.
Thanks again, now I can finally implement the final configuration settings and plan for the actual switch later this evening.

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We are using OBIEE 11.1.1.6.4, we want to create a Virtual directory mapping in weblogic server so that we can place our static image files to access from the application URL.
To do this activity, we have performed following steps -
1) Navigated to C:\OBIEE11G\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\jee
2) Open analytics.ear file
3) Existing code in weblogic.xml is: (if weblogic.xml is not present we need to create the file with below code)
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'US-ASCII'?>
<weblogic-web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app">
<session-descriptor>
<cookie-path>/analytics</cookie-path>
</session-descriptor>
</weblogic-web-app>
4) We have added virtual-directory-mapping tag; After adding virtual directory mapping tag, the code in weblogic.xml is
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'US-ASCII'?>
<weblogic-web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app">
<session-descriptor>
<cookie-path>/analytics</cookie-path>
</session-descriptor>
<virtual-directory-mapping>
<local-path>D:/virtualdirectory</local-path>
<url-pattern>/images/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>*.jpeg</url-pattern>
</virtual-directory-mapping>
</weblogic-web-app>
5) We have created a folder virtualdirectory under D: drive. And then created a folder images within folder virtualdirectory.
6) Then we have placed an image (lets say) test.jpeg within image folder.
7) Restarted all BI services,
8) Now when we try to access URL http://localhost:9704/analytics/images/test.gif. Now we are able to see the image, it’s working perfectly fine.
If we paste the above URL in browser it will automatically displays the image without any authentication. So our requirement is, on pasting the URL in browser first it should redirect to OBIEE homepage and when authentication is done then it should display the image.
Request you to please advise with your inputs.

Why did you modify analytics.ear ?
Should'nt you make changes here : Middleware_Home>\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1
\analyticsRes\WEB_INF\web.xml
Follow this note : OBIEE 11g: How To Access Custom Files Through URL By Creating Virtual Directory In Weblogic Server? [ID 1408240.1]
And you should be able to deploy that virtual directory and access it after authentication.
HTH,
SVS

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