NAV- Web client-url

Business Central/NAV Technical Forum
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I have been deploying NAV-2016 Web client with the usual URL i.e.(192.16.90.10:8080/dynamicsnav90/webclient), but now want to change those urls to simpler ones. Kindly advise.

Note:

The best I have so far tried to come up with is to replace the ip address with a name.(xxxx:8080/dynamicsnav90/webclient) but would like to replace the whole URL with something simpler such as www.xxxx_nav2016.com

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Hi Frank,
Cannot do that. You can also short the instance name. Dynamicsnav90 is just the default (demo) instance name. You could change your “live” instance name to just NAV - also easier.

But you could also create a HTTP redirection, meaning if your users go to www.xxx_nav2016.com, then it automatically takes them to www.xxx_nav2016.com/nav/webclient.

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let me try this and see, thanks.

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Yes I am agree with Erick, As upto my knowledge you can not do the same. However, you may create HTTP redirect the the link where you are trying to go in webclient .

Thanks & Regards

Frank

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You’re welcome. The actual redirect can be done in different ways, but the easiest is doing it from the default page (default.aspx) of the root of the “true” domain.

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Perfect, just perfect.

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Hi,

I’m trying to do something similar to an on prem server but I’m having some issues…

I have deployed my Business Central Server on 3 servers. 1 is the Business Central Application Server, the other my SQL Server and the last my IIS Web Server.

All is up and running but I can only reach the Web Client via the following URL http://server-name/BC130

If I add the domain name after the server name, http://server-name.mydomain.com/BC130, it no longer works. The site comes up and I get the windows Authentication Prompt but after entering my credentials, I get the following error in the event viewer:

Error accessing Website 
Type: Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Types.NavServerNotFoundException
Message: A server was not found at "net.tcp://server-name.mydomain.com:7146/BC130/Service". Either the URL is incorrect or the server is currently not available.

DNS is setup correctly but I think there must be a setting where the business central server will only respond to queries coming from a certain url.

Thanks