Configure Proxy Settings

To use external Web Services or HTTP data sources when the Publisher server is configured behind a firewall or requires a proxy to access the internet, you must configure Oracle WebLogic Server to allow the Web service requests and to be aware of the proxy.

When configuring the proxy setting, you must also configure WebLogic Server to be aware of any hosts that Publisher must connect to directly (not through the proxy) for example, the Oracle Analytics Server host. Define the proxy host and the non-proxy hosts to WebLogic Server by setting the following parameters:

• -Dhttp.proxyHost - specifies the proxy host. For example:

  -Dhttp.proxyHost=www-proxy.example.com

• -Dhttp.proxyPort - specifies the proxy host port. For example:

  -Dhttp.proxyPort=80

• -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts - specifies the hosts to connect to directly, not through the proxy. Specify the list of hosts, each separated by a "|" character; a wildcard character (*) can be used for matching. For example:

  -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts="localhost|*.example1.com|*.example2.com

To set these proxy parameters and the Web service configuration for your WebLogic Server, you update the WebLogic setDomainEnv script.

1. Open the setDomainEnv script (.sh or .bat) in the MW_HOME/user_projects/domains/DOMAIN_NAME/bin/directory.
2. Enter the following parameters:

   EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES="-Dhttp.proxyHost=www-proxy.example.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=localhost|*.mycompany.com|*.mycorporation.com|*.otherhost.com ${EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES}"
   export EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES
    
    EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES="-Djavax.xml.soap.MessageFactory=oracle.j2ee.ws.saaj.soap.MessageFactoryImpl 
   -Djavax.xml.soap.SOAPFactory=oracle.j2ee.ws.saaj.SOAPFactoryImpl -Djavax.xml.soap.SOAPConnectionFactory=oracle.j2ee.ws.saaj.client.p2p.HttpSOAPConnectionFactory  ${EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES}"
   export EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES
   

   where

   www-proxy.example.com is an example proxy host

   80 is the example proxy port

   localhost|*.mycompany.com|*.mycorporation.com|*.otherhost.com are example non-proxy hosts