topic QEMC Access Point URL in QlikView

QEMC Access Point URL

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

The default Access Point url is: http://localhost/qlikview/index.htm. If I wanted to create a generic url that users could access regardless of the server name how would I go about doing that? The reason I ask is I'd like to have a more generic name for the url so we can have users point to one address regardless of which server we have QlikView on.

thanks,

rob

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Bjorn_Wedbratt — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:30:46 GMT

Not sure if I follow you, but (as you already know) a web server is by default accessible using the default machine (netbios) name (i.e. http://win2k8 if the machine name is WIN2K8). It is also common that you have a Fully Qualified Name (FQN) registered in DNS for the machine, in the format "machinename.domain" (i.e win2k8.company.com) and in that case users can access the web server using http://win2k8.company.com.

It's not very uncommon that you have an internal naming convention on your servers that is not very user-friendly (USPRODQVS for a production QVS in the US as an example). In this case you can register alternative DNS-records in your environment, either HOST(A) records or ALIAS(CNAME) records. You can have multiple HOST(A)-records registered on the same IP-address if you want, which is common for example when hosting multiple web sites on the same IIS server:

USPRODQVS 10.0.1.10 (default HOST(A) record)
QVS 10.0.1.10
PORTAL 10.0.1.10

In this example you can reach each of the web sites on the server using:

http://usprodqvs (default site with default host header=NETBIOS name)
http://qvs (qvs site with host header=qvs)
http://portal (a site with host header=portal)

ALIAS(CNAME) records in DNS will point to already existing HOST(A)-records and can also be used. However, sometimes you need to pay attention to the type of DNS-record being used. Kerberos for example will not utilize the ALIAS(CNAME) records when generating tokens, but the HOST(A) record.

I suggest you have a chat with your DNS-admin and have him/her register appropriate DNS-records for your environment. If you later install QVS on a new machine (i.e. new IP address), it's easy to simply alter the DNS-record to point to the IP-address for the new machine and the end-users will still access the web site like they're used to.

Regards,
Bjorn

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Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:25:47 GMT

Hey Bjorn,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, you have part of my question. Our Network admin was going to make all of the DNS changes that you mention above. My question is more around what would I need to change in the QEMC in order for internal users to access the access point from the new FQN. For example, by default our access point has the following URL: http://dcwebb99/qlikview/index.htm. If we change the DNS so the FQN is something like: http://bi-internal.companyname.com what changes would I need to make in the QEMC so when my end users type http://bi-internal.companyname.com that it points to the same Access Point location that http://dcwebb99/qlikview/index.htm . I'm guessing all I'd have to do is rename the URL in the QlikView Web Servers\General area to http://bi-internal.companyname.com . Currently, the name shows up as: http://dcwebb99:4750/qvws.asmx .

thanks again,

rob

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Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:01:02 GMT

http://bi-internal.companyname.com takes you to the default page \ location of your web server.

To default it to access point, you could do in different ways.

1) To configure you webserver home directory to your access point.

2) You can place a small default.asp \ default.htm page to redirect to http://bi-internal.companyname.com qlikview/index.htm

sample ASP script.

Response.redirect "/accesspoint"

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Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:14:09 GMT

idealbrain,

I used option #2 above and it worked like a charm. Thanks for your help.

rob

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MichaelRobertshaw — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:43:38 GMT

The only place where the server name part of the URL is controlled in QEMC is in the Print properties of the QlikView Server. This URL is used to deliver Exported content for AJAX clients. Change http://xxxx/QvPrint to just /QvPrint and it will work with whatever servername the users use.

QEMC Access Point URL

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:35:52 GMT

idealbrain,

Where would I place the default.asp script if I'm not running IIS? We were running IIS on a previous server so I just placed the default.asp file in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot folder. I have another machine where I'm not running IIS and I can't figure out where to put the default.asp redirect. Maybe it would be easier to go with you option #1? Could you provid a little more detail on option #1 or let me know where to place the default.asp file for the server that's not running IIS?

thanks so much,

rob

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Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:46:01 GMT

Rob,

Default.asp is for IIS. Which webserver are you using on the another machine?

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Bjorn_Wedbratt — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:54:33 GMT

Rob,

If you're using QlikView Web server, there are some additional "tweaks".

First of all, you need to configure QVWS to "listen" to the host URL. By default QVWS is configure to listen to http://server/qlikview (among other URL:s required).
If you open config.xml (%PROGRAMDATA%\Qliktech\QvWebServer) you notice there are a number of virtual folders defined. What you need to do to have QVWS listen to a root folder is to create an additional folder tag, but leave the <NAME>-tag blank:

<Web>
<Folders>
<Folder>
<Name></Name>
<Path>C:\Program Files\QlikView\Root</Path>
</Folder>
<Folder>
<Name>QlikView</Name>
<Path>C:\Program Files\QlikView\Web</Path>
</Folder>

In this case my root-folder would be in C:\Program Files\QlikView\Root (make sure to create this folder).
Restart QVWS and pay attention to the log generated in %PROGRAMDATA\Qliktech\QvWebServer\Log. Notice there's now a register prefix for http://+:80/.

2010-06-29 15:40:49.9097898 Information register prefix: "https://+:443/scripts/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:80/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:80/qlikview/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:80/qvanalyzer/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:80/qvclients/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:80/qvplugin/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:80/qvjava/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:80/qvajaxzfc/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:80/qvprint/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:4750/"
2010-06-29 15:40:49.9410402 Information register prefix: "http://+:80/scripts/"

Great, now we have a root folder for http://server. As you cannot use ASP in an easy way with QVWS, instead create a default.htm page in the root-folder (C:\Program files\Qlikview\Root). Use a meta-tag do redirect to /qlikview, like:

</HEAD>
<BODY>

redirecting please wait...

</BODY>

</HTML>

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Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:58:05 GMT

idealbrain,

I'm using the QlikView Web Server on the other machine.

rob

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Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:18:13 GMT

Bjorn,

Your solution worked perfectly! Thanks so much for your help.

rob

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Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:22:26 GMT

Bjorn,

One last question: Everything is working perfectly. One thing I noticed however is our internal users are now prompted for their log-in credentials, using this new method, whereas before they were automatically validated through NTFS authorization. Is there something I can change in the QMC to automatically validate based on NTFS?

thanks again,

rob

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Bjorn_Wedbratt — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:40:11 GMT

Hey Rob,
Hmm...when do you get prompted for login credentials? Is it when trying http://server in the browser or is it when being redirected to http://server/qlikview ? Or is it when actually trying to open a document? If it is the first two, pay attention to the zone settings in IE. To be able to do "single-sign-on" using IWA, the zone in IE must be Local Intranet when reaching http://server. If not, add the site to the local intranet zone.

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Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:48:59 GMT

If I type http://server/qlikview I do not get prompted. Everything flows through to the QVW as expected. When I type in the new redirected url of http://bi-internal.datacoremarketing.com I get prompted immediately. All I have to do is fill in my AD credentials and I'm in, but if there was a way to flow through without being prompted that would be ideal.

FYI - I get prompted in both IE and Firefox.

Any ideas?

thanks,

rob

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Bjorn_Wedbratt — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:16:00 GMT

Add http://bi-internal.datacoremarketing.com to the Local Intranet zone in IE (tools - Internet options - security - Local Intranet - Sites - advanced). The zone should change from Internet to Local Intranet in the bottom of your browser window.

For FF, open FF and browse to about:config
locate "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris"
modify the value and add the site
you might also need to add values into "network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris" and "network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris"

For more info try googling Firefox and Integrated Windows Authentication

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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:11:43 GMT

Bjorn,

That worked! Thanks again for the help. I really apprecaite it.

rob

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Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:56:23 GMT

Hello Bjorn,

I am using DMS + Section Access with single sign-on.

I managed to login - using the login page - and connect to the Access Point but if I point http://server to the http://server/qlikivew (by modifying the confi.xml file) the login does not work properly. In other words, I do not manage to login directly on the Access Point page ... Do you know why and how I can fix this?

Also, I wonder if you have any tweak to point the http://server to the Login page (http://server/qlikview.login.htm) instead of the Access Point page (http//server.qlikview)?

Thanks,

Patrice

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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:52:11 GMT

I saw the discussion using Alias instead of default server name, but in my case it is not exactly the same issue.
Even, I try what Bjorn suggested and the result is the same. So I went back to the default configuration.

"bi-internal.companyname.com" is an ALIAS(CNAME) records in DNS that point to the default server name (DefaultServerName) set during the installation.

Login to http://bi-internal.companyname.com/qlikview/index.htm : No problem to access the list of QVApps built and distributed.
The Single-Sign-On works well also with that url.
But, clicking on a link (My preferred client : IE Plugin) the page is blank and here are the 2 messages I get :

Line : 2
Character : 1
Error : Invalid String (or Invalid Character)
Code : 0
url : qvp://DefaultServerName/QVApp.qvw?iis_authenticate={ticket_number}&tunneler=http%3A//bi-internal.companyname.com/scripts/QVSTunnel.dll%3Fhost%3DDefaultServerName

Line : 1
Character : 1
Error : Expected object
Code : 0
url : qvp://DefaultServerName/QVApp.qvw?iis_authenticate={ticket_number}&tunneler=http%3A//bi-internal.companyname.com/scripts/QVSTunnel.dll%3Fhost%3DDefaultServerName

But as soon as I put the "http://DefaultServerName" in the trusted sites of IE it works well.

My issue is that, in my company, Host file is prohibited on end users machines; and trusted sites neither allowed; only the sites ending by "companyname.com" is to be used and are included in "Intranet Local" zone (in Security of IE Internet Options).

Could you help me fixing this issue ?

Thanks,
Gilles.

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yblake — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:55:52 GMT

In "Program files\QlikView\Server\QVClients\QVPlugIn" :
- rename opendoc.htm as opendoc.bck
- then rename opendoc_fix.htm as opendoc.htm

This will solve security issues regarding frameset under IE.

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Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:13:57 GMT

I got some understanding on the redirecting the pages..But here is my requirement.

I have a 2 Cases

1) When the user is not having installed the Qlugin Plugin and he logged in, in this case what to show the customised message like "Your the First Time user want to install the qlikview Y/N.If Yes then the QlikView Installation has to taken place or N Ignore the action.

2) If the user is using the AZAX and is not a Authorised one then It's popping up for user id and password.This should be replaced with Proper message like ' NOT A AUTHORISED USER.Please contact so and so person'.

Can anyone help me in understanding 'What changes I have to do & where I have to do ....

Ram.