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 WebSphere Application Server environment. The targeted resources are remote to your Application Server installation.
We can access this administrative 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 installed within this scope can use this URL configuration to access URL resources.
Provider
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 our 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 we create 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 clicking OK to save our settings, we 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
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:
URLs Use URL resources within an application Administrative console page features Administrative console buttons