topic Re: Disable Web Application "Success" Page in SAS Visual Analytics

Disable Web Application "Success" Page

vjef_sas — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:34:49 GMT

Hello,

Can someone provide details on disabling the Web Application "success" page in SAS VA? This is the page served on port 8080 and has text "Congratulations! You have successfully set up SAS Web Application Server." We'd prefer not to serve that page to users, as it has nothing to do with the content we're trying to serve. I'd also like to avoid having the server stop listening on 8080. It looks like I can edit <INSTALL_DIR>/sasconfig/Lev1/Web/WebAppServer/SASServer1_1/webapps/ROOT/index.html . Is there a better way? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Re: Disable Web Application "Success" Page

JuanS_OCS — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:41:39 GMT

Hello @vjef_sas,

did you already tried to modify INSTALL_DIR>/sasconfig/Lev1/Web/WebServer/htdocs/index.html ?

In other hand, not sure what you mean with stop it to listen port 8080.

Some background.

You should have at least a Web Server (httpd ) server, and at least one SASServer1_1, and maybe even SASServer2_1 and SASServer12_1, depending on your mid tier deployment.

With this configuration, SASServer1_1 should always listen on port 8080, but your users will log to the Web Server (httpd) port number. If we are missing some information from your deployment, please fill us in.

Re: Disable Web Application "Success" Page

vjef_sas — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:36:24 GMT

References to 8080 were just me saying that I want to avoid solutions that stop the server from accepting requests on that port. Since 8080 looks to be pretty integral to the Web applications component of SAS VA, I don't want to mess with it.

I have worked with modifying both <INSTALL_DIR>/sasconfig/Lev1/Web/WebServer/htdocs/index.html and <INSTALL_DIR>/sasconfig/Lev1/Web/WebAppServer/SASServer1_1/webapps/ROOT/index.html (from my original question), including simply renaming the files. I generate a 404 successfully, which might be exactly what I'm after here.

Thank you for your suggestions. I think part of my question should have been whether there are any suggested best practices and approaches around removing these test pages. My apologies for not stating that in my original question. I can certainly proceed with modifying or removing the files mentioned above.

Re: Disable Web Application "Success" Page

JuanS_OCS — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:11:53 GMT

Hello,

there are no best practices, except the general Web Application best practices.

Most of the changes won't be officially supported by SAS (although if you ask for help, anyone will be happy to try to help you out), but this is the software you purchased, therefore is up to you to modify its content as long as it is according to the legal agreements signed and accepted with SAS.

And where to make the changes: again, no best practice and no centralized location: some of them might come from the metadata, generated by SAS Code/Stored Processes, others from the content server (WebDAV), others from the static content on the Web Server, and others from the static or dynamic content from the SAS Web Applications... and some might come even from databases, such as the WIP database! Again, same as other web applications. I am aware it does not help much... but asking specific questions, you can get an specific answer, as the previous one.

Beware: if you change names or locations of content, you might need to modify the default web directory security settings... on which you would need to be extra careful, specially for VA, an application normally designated to be open to many people.

Re: Disable Web Application "Success" Page

vjef_sas — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:38:27 GMT

Thanks again @JuanS_OCS. After some experimentation, renaming the index.html files to index.html.orig (or anything else) appears to have the desired effect without causing disruption.