Hi,
I’m trying to connect to our Lotus Connections (dev) server from my Notes - Activities Sidebar panel. My Connections URL looks like this :
http://server.company.com:9080/activities
This URL takes me to the Activities login page when I load it in a web browser. But when I give the same in Notes preferences with a valid user credentials it gives me an error :
Couldn’t connect to the Activities server. Either it is unavailable right now, or the server URL, user-name or password is incorrect.
The user credentials are right. My doubt is that can I give the port number in the URL? Will that be a problem? Because of this I’m not able to get the Connections’ business card in Notes.
Thanks.
Subject: probable solution
I checked with development and got this response…
The issue is related to the port number.
In 8.5.1 we use the default port number to calculate the auth url. In this case the customer seems to have Portal (port 9080).
The related port number for https would be 9443 and we will use 443.
There are 2 ways to correct this:
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going to the accounts preferences and change the port number for the auth url:
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using the plugin_customization.ini to preset server url and auth info:
…<notes>\framework\rcp
add the lines below
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/server=http://w3.ibm.com:9080/connections/activities
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/authtype=J2EE-FORM
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/authserver=https://w3.ibm.com:9443/connections/activities/j_security_check
then click restore defaults or delete Connections accounts to pick up the new settings.
note: using the plugin_customization.ini this can be pusehd to all clients
Subject: Working Now!!!
Thanks Christopher for your response. I got it working with this URL:
https://server.company.com:9443/activities
Thanks again.