Question & Answer
Question
How do you reset URLs back to DOORS format after you convert them to Hypertext type URLs in IBM Rational DOORS?
Cause
You enable DOORS redirector server to use http or https and links referring to prior DOORS format URLs do not work.
Answer
If you want URLs of all DOORS items to be in "doors://....." format instead of the existing "https://......" format you can reset the URL prefix.
WARNING: With the "doors://..." format URLs you will not be able to use OSLC based integrations that require the newer "http://..." kind of URL.
Procedure:
On the DOORS DB Server navigate to the installation directory of the Server and run the following command:
dbadmin -data <DOORS DB port>@<DOORS DB Host> -urlPrefix "doors://<DOORS DB Host:DOORS DB port" -dwaHost "" -dwaPort "" -dwaProtocol ""
For example:
dbadmin -data 36677@DOORS.IBM.com -urlPrefix "doors://DOORS.IBM.com:36677" -dwaHost "" -dwaPort "" -dwaProtocol ""
Please note with new version of DOORS -urlPrefix is not valid. The following command can be used to revert the URL back to default:
dbadmin -data port@host -dwaHost "" -dwaPort "" -dwaProtocol ""
This will change all URL's in DOORS back to "doors://.." format.
As an added confirmation, you can restart DOORS DB Server once after running the above command.
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Modified date:
01 May 2020
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