Alias on iSeries with WebSphere 6.1

I am looking to create an alias (to hide the port numbers in our url) in DNS (PSWEB for example) that will direct to our iSeries (ERPWEB) web server running WebSphere 6.1 where I will have the ALIAS setup to listen on port 75. I found reference in older JDE doc (WebSphere 4.0), but am not sure if the syntax has changed. Can anybody validate the following?

<VirtualHost *:75>
Alias /jde /QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/AppServer/V6/Base/profiles/AppSvr02/installedApps/ERPWEB_AppSvr02/Pristine_on_Port_75.ear/webclient.war
ServerAlias PSWEB

Also, looking to see if the following is still being used on for WebSphere 6.1

DocumentRoot /htdocs/en_US (not sure of the full path)

Thanks

Greg

If I understand what you are asking, it is to have the user type http://websphereserver/jde/E1Menu.maf

To accomplish that, you need a reverse proxy setup. The alias statements in the HTTP examples don't accomplish that. Check out this article for further info - http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies

Sorry, here is an iSeries specific link - http://tinyurl.com/56obtv

Ebearman,

Thanks for the info on the reverse proxy.

What I'm really trying to do is mask the port number that the users typically use. So instead of typing http://myserver.mycompany.com:81/jde/E1Menu.maf they could type PSWEB (or MYURL) that will get translated by DNS to the redirect the request to the HTTP server where the alias is setup.

I have included the outdated guide, that makes reference to the Windows platform. I'm trying to get the correct syntax for iSeries, if anybody knows it.

Thanks

Greg

All,

I got it…I had to enter the following Into the config file for the DEFAULT instance:


NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.1:80

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.1:80>
ServerName psweb
RedirectMatch ^/$ http://erpweb:75/jde/E1Menu.maf
</VirtualHost>

Cheers

Greg