Portal admin URL via www server

Question

Hi,
We are using the portal admin web tool located in the http://localhost:7001/xxxAdmin
The portal shows up and usable perfectly. However I would like to use it via webserver. The webserver redirects my URL to the http://localhost:7001/xxxAdmin.
So my request->http://xxx.com/xxAdmin is redirected to http://localhost:7001/xxxAdmin.
Login page shows up perfectly. I try to log in and the URL is broken. http://localhost:7001/xxxAdmin/login/login.do shows a page not found. Of course on the web there is no localhost.
How can I avoid this redirect? Or how can I hardcode the URL to use? I understood that the beehive-url-template.xml is for similar purpose but what is the template url name that the portal admin tool is using? Any other solution?

Answer 1

Suresh -
1. To deploy without Workshop/Eclipse, you will generally create an EAR of your application (via the Export Wizard under the File > Export menu) and deploy that with either the WLS console, WLST, or the weblogic.Deployer utility class. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15919_01/wlp.1032/e14245/deployment.htm#i1027718 has a fair amount of information.
2. The WLP admin portal is a webapp deployed as part of your application, via the wlp-tools-admin-app-lib.ear shared library. So, its host and port number are the same as wherever you deploy your application. The url path of the admin portal is controlled via your application's META-INF/weblogic-application.xml file; there's a <wls:library-context-root-override> element for the 'tools' context-root.
3. Since the WLP admin portal is a webapp deployed as part of your application, it needs to have a unique context-root to support deploying multiple WLP applications. The ear wizard in Eclipse defaults to specifying the context-root as [appname]Admin to support this, but you can always change the context-root as I described above.
4. No, currently, the WLP admin console is application-scoped and controls the configuration and behavior for that application. So, for multiple applications, you will have to use multiple admin console urls.
Greg