Application Host

The Application Host is a Web page that creates and loads SDL Applications into iframes so that users can access multiple SDL Applications from a single URL. Typically, you add your SDL Applications to a single Application Host: this URL becomes the entry point for users to access their applications. The Application Host is already installed in SDL Applications that use it to define the application navigation structure that appears in the slide-out navigation pane.

In the following example, a customer has SDL Web, SDL Digital Media Management and SDL Campaigns installed. In the Web site of SDL Web, SDL Digital Media Management and SDL Campaigns are added as <applicationReferences> to the Application Host settings.xml file so that users access this SDL Application through the same URL: