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 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.
Table 1. URLs to help server toolsHelp server tool |
URL |
Corresponding Help Administration tab |
Help content |
http://server:port/help-name/index.jsp |
Home page |
About |
http://server:port/help-name/about/about.jsp |
About |
Local help updater |
http://server:port/help-name/updater/updatewar.jsp |
Update help content |
Remote help configuration |
http://server:port/help-name/remote/remotehelp.jsp |
Remote help configuration |
Network connections |
http://server:port/help-name/updater/proxy.jsp |
Network connections |
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. Common port numbers:
- WebSphere® Application Server:
63650
- Apache Tomcat: 8080
- 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