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Creating a New Virtual Directory

Virtual directories are created automatically when you install the SWSE. However, you may in some cases want to create your own virtual directory, for example, to be able to test features, such as Web Single Sign-On (Web SSO), so that you can point to an already existing Application Object Manager.

You would add the new virtual directory to either obj.conf (Sun ONE) or httpd.conf (IHS and HP-Apache2), as appropriate, using the procedures provided in this section.

After adding a new virtual directory, you must add the name of the new virtual directory to the appropriate connect string in the eapps.cfg file under $SWEAPP_ROOT/bin.

To add a new virtual directory for Sun ONE Web Server

• Open the obj.conf file to view the existing virtual directories and add a line as shown in the following example:

  NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/myvirdir_lang" dir="/export/home/siebel/public/lang"

  where:

  myvirdir_lang = The name of the language-specific virtual directory

  lang = The Siebel code for the language

To add a new virtual directory for IHS

• Open the httpd.conf file to view the existing virtual directories and add a line as shown in the following example:

  Alias /myvirdir_lang /export/home/swe/public/lang

To add a new virtual directory for HP-Apache2

• Open the httpd.conf file to view the existing virtual directories and add lines like those shown in the following example:

  <VirtualHost> *
  ServerName www.domain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/domain
</VirtualHost>

  where:

  www.domain.tld = The new top level domain

  /www/domain = The directory path to the virtual domain's root