URL configuration settings

Use this page to define connections to Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), which are location names that represent electronically accessible resources. A collection of URL connection properties is often called a URL configuration in the WAS environment. The targeted resources are remote to the Application Server installation.

We can access this console page in one of two ways:

• Resources > URL > URLs > URL

• Resources > URL > URL Providers > URL_provider > URLs > URL

Scope

Scope of the URL provider that supports this URL configuration. Only applications that are installed within this scope can use this URL configuration to access URL resources.

Provider

Specifies the URL provider that WAS uses for this URL configuration.

To create a new URL configuration: If we previously defined one or more URL providers at the relevant scope, you see a list from which we can select an existing URL provider for the new URL configuration.

Create New Provider

Provides the option of configuring a new URL provider for the new URL configuration.

Create New Provider is displayed only when creating a new URL from the Resources > URL > URLs path. In this flow, we can create a new URL provider if needed. The URL provider can not be changed during an edit.

Clicking Create New Provider triggers the console to display the URL provider configuration page, where we create a new provider. After you click OK to save the settings, you see the URL collection page. Click New to define a new URL configuration for use with the new provider; the console now displays a configuration page that lists the new provider as the URL configuration Provider.

Name

Display name for the resource.

JNDI Name

Specifies the JNDI name.

Important: Adhere to the following requirements for JNDI names:

• Do not assign duplicate JNDI names across different resource types (such as mail sessions versus URL configurations).

• Do not assign duplicate JNDI names for multiple resources of the same type in the same scope.

Description

Description of the resource.

Category

Category string, which we can use to classify or group the resource.

Specification

String from which to form a URL.

Related concepts

URLs

Related tasks

Use URL resources within an application

Administrative console page features

Administrative console buttons