EBSCOhost

Versions of EZproxy prior to 2.4b are producing the error "Application Level Exception" when used to access the August 2007 version of EBSCOhost. If your institution is encountering this error, please see Which Version of EZproxy is on my Server? for information on how to check the version of EZproxy you are using and Download to find information on how to perform a no cost update to the current release.

EBSCO's Visual Search requires EZproxy 3.6c GA (2006-03-10) or later.

EBSCOhost requires the following configuration:

Title EBSCOhost
URL http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx
DJ ebscohost.com
Host search.epnet.com
DJ epnet.com
Host openurl.ebscohost.com
Find proxy.cfm?url=http://
Replace proxy.cfm?url=http://^A
Find /login?url=http://
Replace /login?url=http://^A


As of July 1, 2007, EBSCO has phased out the use of the epnet.com domain. Any existing URLs with epnet.com should be changed to use ebscohost.com instead (e.g. search.epnet.com becomes search.ebscohost.com). The "Host search.epnet.com" line was returned to the recommended configuration, though, since the EBSCOhost XML search interface currently returns URLs with this hostname, which can cause select federated search solutions to also return URLs with this hostname. There were also reports of other epnet.com (e.g. therapy.epnet.com) still using the old name, so "DJ epnet.com" has also been restored to the recommended configuration.

The first Find/Replace is required if you use RefWorks to insure that citation exporting to RefWorks will work correctly.

The second Find/Replace works with the EBSCOhost administrative Setup/Maintain Proxies option where you can provide a Proxy URL Mask to point have persistent links pointed back to your EZproxy server. These lines help prevent the persistent URL from being rewritten, avoiding URLs that look like http://ezproxy.yourlib.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.yourlib.org/.

If you use EBSCO LinkSource, you should also review EBSCO LinkSource .

EBSCO A-to-Z and EBSCO EJS

EBSCO A-to-Z and EBSCO EJS are completely separate products from EBSCOhost. Useful Utilities does not have access to the information required to prepare a comprehensive definition for these resources. EBSCO does provide a configuration for EJS upon request.

Common cause of "Page not found" errors after updating this definition

Please note that EBSCO migrated from the use of hostnames ending in epnet.com to hostnames ending in ebscohost.com over the summer of 2006. During this migration, many new web servers will be proxied. Useful Utilities anticipates that this change will trigger page not found errors related to Troubleshooting Common Problems under "1.a. Proxy by port has worked for awhile, but gives this error to all remote users for certain databases, particularly new databases." If you see this error, particularly if you use proxy by port, please refer to this page regarding a common firewall issue that can cause this behavior and how to correct it.