How to add Oracle Portal as an External Application in another Oracle Portal?

Assumptions:

First instance of Oracle Portal is accessible as follows:

http://newportal.company.com/pls/portal

Second instance of Oracle Portal is accessible as follows:

http://oldportal.company.com/pls/portal

Each of the instances above, when accessed, authenticate users with thei respective Infrastructure instances.

Description:

The following steps will allow the second instance of Oracle Portal to be added as an External Application in the SSO of first instance.

Step 1:

Login as user with full SSO administrative privileges (orcladmin) in First Instance. Create an External Application with the details as follows:

Application Name: Old Portal (Ext App)

Login URL: http://oldportal.company.com:7778/pls/portal/PORTAL.wwptl_login.login_url

User Name/ID Field Name: ssousername

Password Field Name: password

Type of Authentication Used: POST

In the Additional Fields,

p_requested_url -> http://oldportal.company.com:7778/pls/portal/PORTAL.HOME

p_cancel_url -> http://oldportal.company.com:7778/pls/portal/PORTAL.HOME

Step 2:

Login as user with administrative privileges (Portal)

1. Add the External Applications Portlet to a Portal Page.
   
2. Check to display the newly created External Application to users
   
3. Users with privilege to access the Page/Portlet will now be able to access the second instance from the first instance of Portal.