Specifying the Appliance URL

InstallAnywhere 2020

In the Appliance URL field on the Appliance Configuration tab of the Build Appliances view, you need to enter the start URL by which the appliance can be accessed post deployment. The Appliance URL uses the following format:

<protocol>#hostname#<context_root>

where:

<protocol> is of type http://
#hostname# will be replaced by the IP of the appliance obtained after deployment of the virtual appliance.
<context_root> is the context root of the virtual appliance.

A typical virtual appliance URL can be specified by the appliance author in the InstallAnywhere GUI as:

    http://#hostname#/sample/demo.html

If the IP of the deployed appliance is x.y.a.b, then this URL will be resolved as:

    http://x.y.a.b/sample/demo.html

and will be presented as the start URL of the appliance to the end user.

Note • The finally resolved appliance URL will also be available to the user in the ApplianceBuildResults.txt file, if automatic deployment is selected.