Shortening a mashup url?

[ague]

Anyone know how to shorten a mashup's URL in ThingWorx? I already have a page that lives at 'www.myserver.com/Thingworx/Home', so I need another address that will read 'www.myserver.com/Thingworx/Home/MyPageName'.

I've found this article already re using a Google API to shorten a URL: https://support.ptc.com/help/thingworx_apps/r8.5/en/index.html#page/thingworx_apps/ThingWorxAppsSetupConfig/url_shortening_service.html.

However, the second step of this article seems to indicate the use of Manufacturing Apps, which I am not using. 

[BennyB]

You can use Tomcat redirect mechanism by modifying server.xml and rewrite config. Don't have a full description right now but google may be your friend.

[BennyB · Accepted solution]

Since this is no clear reply here a short description.

1. Open file D:\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 8.5\conf\server.xml (of course adjust path to your installation folder)
   • Find path Server/Service/Engine/Host (probably at the bottom)
   • Add: <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.rewrite.RewriteValve" />
2. Create file rewrite.config in path D:\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 8.5\conf\Catalina\localhost
   • Example is below, I was not allowed to attach it with config extension
   • Example URL entered: https://servername/Plant
     Url rerouted to: https://servername/Thingworx/Runtime/index.html?mashup=PlantViewMashup

Example rewrite.config:

RewriteRule ^/Common/(.*) /Thingworx/Common/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/DSP/(.*) /Thingworx/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/DSPR/(.*) /Thingworx/Runtime/$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^/Machine/(.*)$ /Thingworx/Runtime/index.html?mashup=MachineViewMashup&EntityName=$1 [R,L,NE,NC]
RewriteRule ^/Plant /Thingworx/Runtime/index.html?mashup=PlantViewMashup [R,L,NE,NC]

[slangley]

Hi @ague.

If you are satisfied with the previous response, please mark it as the Accepted Solution for the benefit of others with the same question.

Regards.

--Sharon