I have installed the 2x ApplicationServer and the Web Access Portal on a Windows Server 2003 R2 server. Everything works fine and I can log in to the portal and launch appliations. I want to enable SSL and then make the web site accessible externally. I'm not sure how to go about doing this. The 2X Access Portal guide only offers the following advice on this: "To connect in a secure mode one should enable SSL on the 2X VirtualDesktopServer or enable SSL on IIS." Is the VirtualDesktopServer required, even though everything works fine without it? The ISS website is running on port 85. If I enable SSL in the ApplicationServer console on port 443 and generate a certificate and then set the web access portal to connect to the farm over SSL/port 443, I can still log on (although the Secure Login box is greyed out) to the web portal and connect to applications. I get a certificate warning when launching applications, so I guess it is using SSL. However, until I connect to an application everything is still going over HTTP, so presumably the initial login to the web portal is not encrypted. I have tried enabling SSL on the IIS website (port 444, as port 443 is already taken), but as soon as I do the web portal site becomes inaccessible. I get a certificate warning when I try and get to it, but when I continue past this I get a message saying Internet Explorer cannot display the website. So does anyone have any idea how to set up SSL for the 2X Access Portal IIS website so everything is encrypted?
You have two options. 1) Set your IIS to force secure conenction ( in 2008 add https and remove http in the site binding) 2) Leave webportal on port 81 and connect through the gateway set in SSL mode (and with the port 80 turned off)
