Help server administration

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 URLs
Help 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.

  1. From your product installation, open the Help > Help Contents.
  2. 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
  3. Log onto the server or computer hosting the help system.
  4. Paste the URL in a browser.
  5. Change server to localhost or 127.0.0.1.
  6. Remove the topic information from the end of the URL: /topic/plug-in/topics/topic.html
  7. 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:

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