Automatically redirect iPhone users to the mobile UI of Lotus Connections
If you're running Lotus Connections 2.5 and you installed the mobile interface you really should redirect your mobile users to this interface and not have them remember the URL to the mobile interface. By default users need to specify http://<hostname>/mobile to access the mobile interface (see bleedyellow.com/mobile if you want to see what it looks like) which is not what you want. You want it to happen automatically. To accomplish this simply use mod_rewrite to automatically redirect the user based on the User-Agent of the accessing browser (much like setting the default feature).
To add a mod_rewrite rule to automatically redirect iPhone users add the following to your httpd.conf and restart IHS. Doing the same for Nokia S60 users should be equally easy if you know the User-Agent for those phones.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "^Mozilla/[0-9]\.[0-9] \(iPhone.*"
RewriteRule ^/?$ /mobile [R,L]
Easy isn't it?
Remember Lotusphere Comes To You next week in Copenhagen and Århus
If you missed Lotusphere 2010 then do remember that Lotusphere Comes To You next week in Copenhagen and Århus. Among others I'll be no stage at both events to talk about Lotus Connections and how you may get started easily whether that be with an on-premise solution (Lotus Connections) or a hosted solution (LotusLive Engage/LotusLive Connections). You may sign up for LCTY 2010 here.
I'm a certified Lotus Connections 2.5 Administrator
It's official - I'm certified! How cool is that?! The certification exam was quite hard and the questions range from Websphere Application Server administration questions to administering the individual features to configuring security to deployment scenarios. There's a huge deal of things you need to know and the infocenter was my friend throughout preparing for the exam. Don't bother taking the exam if you haven't worked with the product for a while and put in the hours preparing.
I must admit that this is my first ever Lotus certification as I've never had the need before. While studying for this exam my view on certification has changed a bit. Before taking this exam I heard all the stories about certification and how it was about know exact UI wording etc. This exam was nothing like that. The question was very valid and made you think quite a lot and base your answer in your knowledge of the product. An exam as it should be. Another benefit is that I've read about areas of the product I otherwise wouldn't have and I've discovered quite some stuff that I need to implement or configure at customers. All very nice.