Configuring the help server to provide local or intranet help
The Help Administration page
is available for local help or intranet help configurations. The Help
Administration page provides access to all of the tools
you use to administer your help server.
You can open the Help Administration page by entering this URL in a browser: http://server:port/help-name/updater/admin.jsp.
Note: The first time you access the Help Administration page, you
must access it locally from the server that the help is running on. To access the Help
Administration page remotely in the future, change the authentication type.
If your web browser does not display all the options that are described in this procedure, try another browser.
If you do not choose to use the Help Administration page,
you can access most of the tools individually. To access the tools
individually, refer to the URLs that are listed in the following table.
Help server tool | URL | Provides |
---|---|---|
Help content | http://server:port/help-name/index.jsp | Help contents and the help home page. |
About | http://server:port/help-name/about/about.jsp | Details about the help content, including:
|
Remote help configuration | http://server:port/help-name/remote/remotehelp.jsp | Controls for adding, enabling, and disabling connections for remote and local help. See Changing help content connections. |
Network connections | http://server:port/help-name/updater/proxy.jsp | Network connections and proxy settings. |
Accessing tools by forming URLs
If you cannot identify the server, port, and help name, copy a topic link and edit it to form a URL.
- From your product, click .
- In the navigation pane, right-click a topic and then click the menu item to copy the URL, such as Copy Link Location, Copy Shortcut, or Copy Link Address. The URL is in this format: http://server:port/help-name/topic/plug-in/topics/topic.html
- Log on to the server or the computer that hosts the help system.
- Paste the URL in a browser.
- Replace server with localhost, 127.0.0.1, or the name of your server.
- Verify the port number.
- Remove the topic information from the end of the URL: /topic/plug-in/topics/topic.html
- Add the appropriate URL ending for any of the tools, as listed earlier in the table.
Example for identifying the Help Administration URL:
- Before: http://server.ibm.com:63650/help/topic/com.ibm.help.common.rational.doc/topics/c_overview_rational.html
- After: http://127.0.0.1:63650/help/updater/admin.jsp