Lotus Traveler Bounce Database
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There are two ways of installing your Lotus Traveler infrastructure. You can install a single Lotus Traveler server that your users can connect to and it will read the users mailfile from whatever Domino server the mailfile happens to sit on or you can install Lotus Traveler on every Domino server and allow the users to hit their own Traveler server.
In the first instance setup is very easy, you can change the homepage of your single traveler server to point to the /servlet/traveler and just give the URL of that single server to your users. If you don't want to change the homepage of the server you could setup a virtual hostname on that server pointing to the /servlet/traveler directory.
Now, if you decide to install Traveler on each Domino server you no longer have a single URL that you can give your users and this is a problem I was thinking about for our own environment until I thought about the INotes Redirect database. It has the ability to easily work out the users home server, so why not make use of that database. I created a new virtual hostname pointing a new new copy of the iNotes Redirection database, I disabled it from picking up design changes from the template and then opened it in my designer client.
Now, as this template was not one of the templates that has been open sourced by IBM on OpenNTF I can't distribute my version of the database, I can however generally describe what I changed so that you can make the same changes to your legally licensed copy of the template on your Lotus Domino 8.5.1 servers.
In the designer client open the 'AutoLogin' form and scroll all the way to the bottom to find a field called $$HTMLHead, select this field and have a look at the code. Towards the bottom you'll see where the HTTP-EQUIV refresh is done to redirect to another URL and you'll see how the URL is constructed using the users servername and path your their mailfile. Making use of the server name variable you can easily edit this to redirect the the /servlet/traveler/ directory on the users home server instead of redirecting to the users mailfile.
Save the form and you now have a Lotus Traveler redirection database that will be easier to direct your users to.
Maybe IBM can add the iNotes Redirect database to the list of open source databases, if they do then I'll be free to put my version up on OpenNTF also.
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There are two ways of installing your Lotus Traveler infrastructure. You can install a single Lotus Traveler server that your users can connect to and it will read the users mailfile from whatever Domino server the mailfile happens to sit on or you can install Lotus Traveler on every Domino server and allow the users to hit their own Traveler server.
In the first instance setup is very easy, you can change the homepage of your single traveler server to point to the /servlet/traveler and just give the URL of that single server to your users. If you don't want to change the homepage of the server you could setup a virtual hostname on that server pointing to the /servlet/traveler directory.
Now, if you decide to install Traveler on each Domino server you no longer have a single URL that you can give your users and this is a problem I was thinking about for our own environment until I thought about the INotes Redirect database. It has the ability to easily work out the users home server, so why not make use of that database. I created a new virtual hostname pointing a new new copy of the iNotes Redirection database, I disabled it from picking up design changes from the template and then opened it in my designer client.
Now, as this template was not one of the templates that has been open sourced by IBM on OpenNTF I can't distribute my version of the database, I can however generally describe what I changed so that you can make the same changes to your legally licensed copy of the template on your Lotus Domino 8.5.1 servers.
In the designer client open the 'AutoLogin' form and scroll all the way to the bottom to find a field called $$HTMLHead, select this field and have a look at the code. Towards the bottom you'll see where the HTTP-EQUIV refresh is done to redirect to another URL and you'll see how the URL is constructed using the users servername and path your their mailfile. Making use of the server name variable you can easily edit this to redirect the the /servlet/traveler/ directory on the users home server instead of redirecting to the users mailfile.
Save the form and you now have a Lotus Traveler redirection database that will be easier to direct your users to.
Maybe IBM can add the iNotes Redirect database to the list of open source databases, if they do then I'll be free to put my version up on OpenNTF also.
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Just out of curiosity what is the use case for wanted to install and support multiple Traveler servers when one can do all the redirecting for you?
Posted by Mitch Cohen At 07:18:38 PM On 10/12/2009 | - Website - |
Of course I haven't done it and not sure why one would, but nice to know the theory can become the reality.
Posted by Keith Brooks At 08:50:45 PM On 10/12/2009 | - Website - |