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IBM Cognos Analytics Platform => Cognos Analytics => Administration and Security => Topic started by: TripJ on 24 Jul 2017 08:57:36 AM

Title: changing root from ibmcognos
Post by: TripJ on 24 Jul 2017 08:57:36 AM
Is it possible to change the Cognos Analytics (11.0.5) root directory on unix from 'ibmcognos' to something else like 'analytics'?  The sysadmin tried it but it looks like there is something in the Cognos configuration that we can't find that tripped it up.

Thanks for any insight,   -j
Title: Re: changing root from ibmcognos
Post by: brandynabel on 27 Jul 2017 09:18:20 AM
Are you talking about at the gateway?

If so yes, We currently have 'http://ourwebsite.net/author/bi' as our cognos analytics root path.

You change the virtual directory name and make sure that directory forwards to /bi/ and your /bi/ directory has all the necessary URL rewrite settings.

The Headers inbound rule HTTP_X_BI_PATH server variable must be changed. In your case the value of /ibmcognos/bi/v1 would need changed to /analytics/bi/v1

Title: Re: changing root from ibmcognos
Post by: TripJ on 28 Jul 2017 07:58:38 AM
Awesome!  :)  Thanks for the info, we're looking into it.