Redirect NetWare welcome page to GroupWise Webaccess main page skipping language choosing

  • 7007367
  • 14-Dec-2010
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell NetWare 6.5
Novell GroupWise 6.5
Novell GroupWise 7
Novell GroupWise 8
Novell GroupWise 6
Novell NetWare 6.0

Situation

Purpose:
 
The objective is to redirect the welcome page of a Novell NetWare 6.x Server to Novell GroupWise Webaccess main page skipping language choosing. 

Resolution

Follow the steps below to achieve this objective: 
1) On the NetWare server make a copy of the filesys:/apache2/htdocs/index.html
2) Edit the sys:/apache2/htdocs/index.html file.
3) Delete all the contents and write in it the lines below:
<html>
   <head>
     <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" Content="0;url=https://<DNS NAME or IP ADDRESS of GroupWise server>/gw/webacc">
   </head>
   <body>
   </body>
</html>
 
4) Restart Apache and Tomcat