Administering the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform

Specifying Connection Parameters for HTTP and HTTPS Sessions

The Connection tab in the properties dialog box for SAS applications enables you to modify the parameters for connecting to a SAS Web application. The selections that are displayed on the Connection tab determine the URL that is used to access the application's resources or services.

The following display shows the Connection tab for SAS BI Dashboard properties.

Connection Tab for BI Dashboard 4.3 Properties

[Connection Tab for BI Dashboard 4.3 Properties]

If your site changes its configuration after initial deployment, you might need to edit the connection information parameters. Here are some situations where the connection parameters are updated on the Connection tab:

If a SAS Web application is moved to a different machine, you must modify the host name property for its connection.
If you configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for improved security, you must edit the Protocol property to modify the connection protocol to HTTPS for each affected application.
If clustering or load balancing is configured, the connection parameters should be updated.
If you deploy SAS Web Application Themes to a different Web application server, you should modify the theme metadata by specifying the name of the theme, and update other parameters such as host name and port number.

Changing the values for the Host Name, Port, or Service fields on the Connection tab enables the SAS Web Application Infrastructure to seamlessly redirect clients to the proper locations in a custom environment. For the host name, you can supply an IP address. If you enter an IP version 6 address, you must enclose the address in brackets.

For example: [FE80::202:B3FF:FE1E:8329]

Enabling SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3 With SSL Configuration

If SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3 is running on a JBoss Web application server, and SSL is configured in your environment, then edit the server.xml file. Add the following parameter and value to the SSL Connector section:

emptySessionPath="True"

CAUTION:: If SSL is configured, and the emptySessionPath parameter is not defined manually in the server.xml file, then SAS BI Portlets will not function properly with SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3.

Here is an example of the section where the emptySessionPath parameter has been specified:

Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
      maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
      clientAuth="true" sslProtocol="TLS"
      useURIValidationHack="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"
      address="${jboss.bind.address}"
      keystoreFile="${jboss.server.home.dir}/conf/server.keystore"
      keystorePass="ServerAdmin123"
      truststoreFile="${jboss.server.home.dir}/conf/server.truststore"
      truststorePass="ServerAdmin123"
	     emptySessionPath="true"

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