JordanJ.26599 (Customer) asked a question.
Hello,
We are migrating application from our old on-prem hosted IdP and are working on migrating an app which we used custom vanity/alias URLs built with IIS to create a cleaner URL for app with IdP initiated SAML flows. I was wondering if anyone had any solution for this for applications built in Okta (cloud hosted).
Example:
Application is called "iLoveDogs" and only supports IdP initiated SAML
The realm built with our old IdP is secureauth.caresource.com\SecureAuth130
Using IIS, we could build an alias for this app (vanity URL) and set secureauth.caresource.com\iLoveDogs
This way the user can bookmark this in their browser or link off to it without being confused.
the embed link in Okta isn't very clean and we would like to know if anyone has ever built any custom alias for Okta app URLs. Thanks for any info!
This is very good question Jordan but unfortunately Okta doesn't have clean IDP initiated URL to bookmark. but alternatively you can use Okta Browser Plugin to jump onto any app in Okta and all of them are IDP initiated.
Other workaround is to use Apache reverse-proxy or Nginx to listen request from secureauth.caresource.com\iLoveDogs and redirect to Okta embedded link. If you use AWS then you can use ALB rule to redirect request.