Oracle Rest Data Service (ORDS) URL link

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I have installed ORDS 3.0 on Centos 7 and using it in standalone mode, but I am currently having two issues:

The URL contains /ords, e.g.: http://localhost/ords. I want to change it to /apex instead. I have tried renaming ords.war to apex.war, but the URL hasn't changed.
I am unable to start ORDS at system boot. I have created a systemctl service for it, but ORDS stops after starting.

rename ords.war to apex.war and do everything normal. That will make it /apex — Kris Rice
I jus tsaw your comment here, sorry previously it just went by me , but i have tried renaming ords.war to apex.war but then when i access it through link ords does a redirect and then change /apex to /ords again — ProgNi
to be specific it does 302 http redirect i found that in logs — ProgNi
The process i used download ords > unzip > change ords.war to apex.war > java -jar apex.war then configured settings still it redirects to url with name ords.war — ProgNi
never a reason to unzip the file. Standalone may not be best choice for you. Using tomcat may work out easier. I'll get an example posted. — Kris Rice

thatjeffsmith thatjeffsmith · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-23T12:31:59

The specific version of ORDS can be important, things do change quite a bit from version 3.0 to 3.9 for example.

However...

Starting ORDS in your init tab scripts is pretty much like anything else, you should be able to nohup it and redirect the output to a log file. If you're doing this, what's the log file showing, WHY is it stopping after it starts?

And the URL's - since you're running ORDS in standalone mode, you can take advantage of the embedded Jetty webserver that's being used.

That means you can config how URI's are rewritten. Kris has an example of how to do this here.

How to map /catalog to /ords/klrice/metadata-catalog/

<Call name="addRule">
         <Arg>
           <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewritePatternRule">
             <Set name="pattern">/catalog</Set>
             <Set name="replacement">/ords/klrice/metadata-catalog/</Set>
           </New>
         </Arg>
       </Call>
</Ref>

Oracle Rest Data Service (ORDS) URL link

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