The self-referencing URL identifies the
Application Broker program URL. In most cases, you do not need to
set this value. The URL is passed to the SAS program in a macro variable
called _URL. The Web server uses the
script-name environment variable to change the value of _URL. The Application
Server uses the variable _URL to generate the variables _THISSRV and
_THISSESSION.
You might need to change
the self-referencing URL in the following situations:
-
if your Web server does not set
the
script-name environment variable or sets
it incorrectly.
-
if your
site uses load balancing with its Web servers. For example, a site
might have a Web server
www.company.com that
dynamically refers all Web browser requests to a range of Web servers
from
www1.company.com through www5.company.com. In this situation, the self-referencing URL might direct the request
to
www2.company.com/cgi-bin/broker rather
than to the original, load-balanced Web server. If all the company's
Web servers used the Application Dispatcher, you could set the self-referencing
URL to point to
www.company.com/cgi-bin/broker, which would direct all requests to the load-balanced service to
maintain the use of Web server load balancing with each page of the
Application Dispatcher application.