Manual Chapter :
Configuring Resources for Portal Access
Applies To:
Show VersionsBIG-IP APM
- 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
Creating a portal access configuration
This completes the portal access resource configuration.
Add resource items to the portal access resource to provide functionality for your web
applications.
Creating a portal access resource item
You create a portal access resource item to add a port, path, and other portal access
functionality to a portal access resource. If your portal access resource is a hosted content file (for
example, a web application) you must add that file, and all related files from the hosted content
repository that are used with the hosted content file. For example, you might add image files, CSS, and
scripts that are required by the web page or application. You typically use resource items to refine the
behavior for web application directories; for example, you might specify No
Compression and a Cache All caching policy for the
/attachment directory for a portal access resource.
Portal access resource item properties
Use these properties to configure a resource item for a portal access resource.
Property | Value | Description |
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Item Type | Paths or Hosted Content | Specifies whether the resource item is a path to a web resource or an uploaded file from the hosted content repository. |
Destination | Host name, IP address, or network address and mask | Specifies whether the web application destination is a host or an IP address, and provides the host name or IP address. You can specify an IPv4 or IPv6 IP address, or a host name that resolves to either an IPv4 or IPv6 address. When a resource is configured using the host name, and the host name resolves to both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, the IP address family preference setting in the client's DNS configuration is used to choose the IP address type from the DNS response. |
Hosted Files | A local file | If the item type is Hosted Content, you can select a local file from this list to specify as
the resource.
Important: If the portal access resource is a hosted content file, all
related files must be defined separately as portal access resource items within that portal access
resource.
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Port | A port number or 0 | Specifies the port for the web application. 0 means the web application matches port 80 for the http scheme option, and port 443 for the https scheme option. |
Scheme | http, https, or any | Specifies whether the URI scheme for the web application is http, https, or any (either HTTP or HTTPS) scheme. |
Paths | An application path or paths, separated by spaces | Specifies any paths for the web application. You can separate multiple paths with spaces. You can use wildcards, for example /*. |
Headers | Name-value pairs | Specifies any custom headers required by the web application. To add a header, type the header name in the Name field, and the header content in the Value field, then click the Add button. |
Compression | No compression or GZIP compression |
No Compression specifies that application data sent to the
client browser is not compressed. GZIP Compression specifies that
application data sent to the client browser is compressed with GZIP compression.
Important: To use GZIP compression with a portal access resource, in the virtual
server definition, you must specify the HTTP Compression Profile
setting as httpcompression.
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Client Cache | Default, Cache All, or No Cache | Specifies settings for client caching of web applications. In the rewrite profile
that you associate with the virtual server for the portal access resource, you can specify
a client caching option: CSS and JavaScript, CSS, Images
and JavaScript, No Cache or Cache
All. If you configure a client cache setting other than
Default in the portal access resource item, that resource setting
overrides the cache setting in the rewrite profile.
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SSO Configuration | SSO configuration, selected from a list of available SSO configurations | Specifies an SSO configuration to use with the portal access resource item for Single Sign-On. |
Session Update | Enable or disable | Some application web pages that start through portal access connections contain JavaScript code that regularly refreshes the page or sends HTTP requests, regardless of user activity or inactivity. A session that is abandoned at such a site does not time out, because it appears to be active. When disabled, the session update feature prevents these sessions from remaining active indefinitely. |
Session Timeout | Enable or disable | Enables or disables session timeouts. |
Home Tab | Enable or disable | This option inserts into HTML pages a small amount of HTML code that includes the JavaScript that displays the home tab, which contains links to the Home and Logout functions and a URL bar. To enable the home tab on a web application page, select the Home Tab check box. Web pages generated without the home tab JavaScript code contain no home or logout links. You can customize the appearance and configuration of the home tab on the webtop customization page. When you start a web application from the full webtop, the home tab is displayed on the webtop only, and not on web pages launched from the webtop, regardless of this setting. |
Log | None or Packet | Specifies the log level that is logged when actions of this type occur. |
Creating a portal access resource item for minimal patching
Create a portal access resource item to add an port, path and other portal access functionality to
a portal access resource. You typically use resource items to refine the behavior for web application
directories; for example, you might specify No Compression and a Cache
All caching policy for the /attachment directory for a portal access
resource.
This creates the portal access resource item required for a minimal patching configuration.
Creating a portal access configuration with the wizard
You can use the portal access wizard to quickly configure an access policy, resource, resource
item, and a virtual server to allow portal access connections.
Configuration is complete. You can test the portal access resource by browsing to the virtual server
address.
Creating a portal access configuration with a template
You can create a portal access resource with a template for a common application, to add when you
configure an access policy. When you create a portal access configuration with a template, you create the
portal access resource, along with common resource items for the configuration.
The Access Policy Manager® creates a portal access resource and the associated common resource items
from the template.
You can add resource items to the portal access resource, to provide more functionality for your
web applications.