7.4. Configuring the Browser Host

With OpenIG running, configure the browser to go through OpenIG to get to the Portal. To do this we need to modify DNS or /etc/hosts so demo.forgerock.com points to the IP address of the host running OpenIG. If you are using /etc/hosts be sure to check that the naming services for your host check checking files before DNS. On UNIX systems this is configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Assuming OpenIG is running on 10.0.1.1, the /etc/hosts entry should be the following:

10.0.1.1   demo.forgerock.com

Before continuing please verify your name to IP address changes are working properly. The simplest way to do this is to ping demo.forgerock.com. You should see the following if you have properly configured your name to IP mapping:

$ ping demo.forgerock.com
ping demo.forgerock.com
PING demo.forgerock.com (10.0.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.053 ms

If the ping command returns the actual address of demo.forgerock.com, you need to recheck your settings.