CNAME for a specific report page

[bahti]

We have an on-prem PowerBI Reporting Service. Business would like to access specific Power BI reports using a user friendly cname/alias rather than long URL , so instead of "HTTP://servername:80/VirtualDirectory/Folder/Report1" they just want to type "report1/".

Is this possible? Afaik, CNAME can only point to an A record, not a complete url like this. Is there a way to create a link?

Thanks in advance.

 

[saglamtimur]

For IIS side it's called "URL Rewrite". Although Power BI Reporting Server uses IIS, there is no management console to configure it. You must manually edit config files. I can't offer a solution, but you can look at the link below to give you an idea of what to look for.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45407214/reverse-proxy-to-report-server 

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[Greg_Deckler]

@bahti - Seems like what you want is a DNS URI record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types#:~:text=Resource%20records%20%20%20%20Type%20...

You could also potentially do it by using a URI redirect on your web server that hosts your Power BI Report Server.