The Help Administration page provides
access to all of the tools you use to administer your help server
in a single user interface.
In a browser, you can open
the Help Administration page by entering the URL in the following
format: http://server:port/help-name/updater/admin.jsp.
If you choose not to use the Help Administration page, most of
the tools can still be accessed individually from the following URLs:
Table 1. Help server tool URLsHelp 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 |
Identifying the variables for your URLs
If
you are having trouble identifying the variables for your URLs, you
can copy a topic link and edit it to form the URL for the tool you
want to use.
- From your product installation, open the .
- Right-click a topic in the navigation and click the menu item
provided by your browser to copy the URL, such as Copy
Link Location, Copy Shortcut, or Copy
Link Address. The URL is in the form of: http://server:port/help-name/topic/plug-in/topics/topic.html
- Log onto the server or computer hosting the help system.
- Paste the URL in a browser.
- Change server to localhost or 127.0.0.1.
- Remove the topic information from the end of the URL: /topic/plug-in/topics/topic.html
- Add the appropriate URL ending for the Help Administration page
or for any of the other tools in the table.
Example for identifying the Help Administration page:
- Before: http://server.ibm.com:62855/help/topic/com.ibm.help.common.rational.doc/topics/c_overview_rational.html
- After: http://127.0.0.1:62855/help/updater/admin.jsp