About Vanity URLs

Exadata Express customers can promote their own brand by exposing APEX applications and REST endpoints from a custom vanity URL. This vanity URL can replace or complement the default oraclecloudapps.com domain and Oracle SSL certificate. For example, if the URL of your company is https://www.example.com, then you can expose REST APIs developed in Exadata Express using https://api.example.com vanity URL.

To configure your vanity URL, you must have a custom domain name, matching digital SSL certificate, and an instance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancing Classic (LBaaS). LBaaS is available through Universal Credits. You must separately obtain a load balancing instance. You can obtain a domain name from a web service provider or use the domain name of your company and obtain a digital SSL certificate from a Certificate Authority.

The vanity URL configuration is a multi-step process. The following diagram shows how LBaaS can be used to implement vanity URLs in Exadata Express.

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To understand the workflow, see Workflow for Configuring Vanity URLs. In addition, you optionally can define a whitelist that restricts HTTPS access to certain IP addresses while configuring your load balancer instance.