You and your end users got bored of typing lengthyyyy url or hard to remember dash board url? (http://localhost/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard orhttp://crypticservername-04hr01/analytics ) Do you want to shorten some thing like this http://BI/ then here is solution.
Step 1: Choose a short name for bi server or rhythmic words ( HRDash, SalesBI etc) keep it ready, edit host file i.e goto C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ folder add new entry in host file with server name and IP.
In my example, I have added new entry with BI as server name and ip as 127.0.0.1
Step 2: Now create a new file “biserver.asp” and place this file under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\
Edit biserver.asp with following asp script(with out any space between < % or % >) then save this file.
< % @ LANGUAGE="JScript" % >
< % Response.Redirect("analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard"); % >
Step 3: Open IIS (run – inetmgr),
Step 4: Go to Default Web Sites in left pane,
Step 5: Right click on it,
Step 6: Select properties,
Step 7: Go to Documents tab,
Step 8: Click on Add button,
Step 9: Place “biserver.asp” in edit box say okay
Step 10: Make sure Enable Default Document check box is enabled and biserver.asp is top among all other files if not move it to top most
Step 11: Click on apply, click okay
Step 12: Close iis.
Now try to access bi server using http:// BI/
This method works only in windows environment and within intranet.
Hope you liked it.
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