Activating and Deactivating Application Aliases 

Use

You can use this procedure to specify whether or not a Web application’s alias is available on a particular virtual host. You do this by selecting or deselecting the corresponding application alias from the list.

Prerequisites

The Java EE Web applications are deployed so that their aliases are added to the list of available application aliases.

Procedure

Using SAP NetWeaver Administrator

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       1.      Choose the virtual host for which you want to define an alias from the list in the Virtual Hosts frame.

       2.      Choose the Application Aliases tab from the Details frame.

       3.      To activate or deactivate an application alias, select or deselect the Active field for it respectively.

       4.      To save your settings, choose Save in the Virtual Hosts frame.

Using Telnet

 

       1.      Start all applications

                            a.      Use the Telnet command list_app | grep STOPPED

There may be limited number of long application names that list their status on two rows. You can find them after performing the next step and then using the list_app command.

                            b.      Write down the items from the previous step into a text file. Add start_appin front of the application name and remove the text after its name. Execute all those rows in Telnet.

       2.      Enable all inactive aliases that are related to the Web Container.

                            a.      Use the command add http.

                            b.      Use the command host | grep inactive.

                            c.      Get the result and manipulate it by writing down the items into a text file to finish with the list with rows such as application_alias com.sap.portal.epcf.admin –enable. Then execute those commands.