Weblogic/Cognos WAR file question rephrased

[berkeleydb]

I have a couple of WAR files created from a multi-tiered Cognos application on a remote server, that I have deployed on Weblogic 10.3.6.   They deploy but won't start.

I suspect the problem is that the application is trying to refer to files back on the remote Cognos server, and that the remote server location is not included in the application war files.

My question is:  Is there a way for me in a WLS config file to give a <DNS server name>/<subdirectory> and redeploy the app with that info?   

Or does the remote DNS server name have to be imbedded in the WAR file prior to deployment ?