# Perspective URL

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-url/28249>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 13, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-url/28249 "2019-09-13T14:49:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![craigb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@craigb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/craigb)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-url/28249/1 "2019-09-13T14:49:29Z")

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Is it possible to change the URL for the projects to something like…?

```auto
.com/data/perspective/client/myproject

```

to

```auto
.com/myproject

```

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-url/28249/2 "2019-09-13T15:33:43Z")

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Not directly, for better or for worse. Because Perspective is “just” a module, it has to play nicely with everything else, which is why all of its internals get mounted to `/data/<modulename>/*`.

What you _could_ do, at least theoretically, is use something like `nginx` in a “reverse proxy” configuration that rewrote URLs for you - take `yourcustomdomain/project/extra/path` and rewrite it to reach `yourgateway/data/perspective/client/extra/path`. Not outside the realm of possibility, but also not exactly trivial to implement.

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**Author:** ![craigb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@craigb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/craigb)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-url/28249/3 "2019-09-13T15:57:26Z")

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Could it be simplified by registering a domain and pointing to different projects ? (Im no web expert so excuse the stupid questions)

[https://mysite.com/myproject](https://mysite.com/myproject)

directed to

ipaddress/data/perspective/client/myproject

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-url/28249/4 "2019-09-13T16:28:32Z")

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You could do something like that (notice [`demo.ia.io/`](https://demo.ia.io) autoredirects to the full URL: [https://demo.ia.io/data/perspective/client/OnlineDemo](https://demo.ia.io/data/perspective/client/OnlineDemo)

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**Author:** ![craigb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@craigb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/craigb)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-url/28249/5 "2019-09-13T18:13:12Z")

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That did the trick, Thankyou.

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**Author:** ![craigb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@craigb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/craigb)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-url/28249/6 "2019-09-26T17:24:26Z")

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Revisiting this one again,

I got it working as above using SSL etc. I have force secure redirection on but when you mask the URL for the redirect it lets you connect over HTTP. The browser tells you its not secure but the project opens and works even though force secure it set.

If i turn off URL masking it redirects to the full URL and opens as HTTPS