Technical Reference Manual - InduSoft

About thin clients and mobile access
d) On the Create Self-Signed Certificate page, in the Specify a friendly name for the certificate box, type a friendly
name for the certificate (e.g., IWS), and then click OK.
Your self-signed certificate is added to the list of server certificates.
3. Enable SSL for your web site:
a) In the Connections list on the left, open your server, open Sites, and then select Default Web Site.
b) In the Actions pane, click Bindings.
c) On the Site Bindings page, click Add.
d) On the Add Site Binding page, in the Type list, select https.
e) In the SSL certificate list, select the self-signed certificate that you created.
f) Click OK to close the Add Site Binding page, and then click Close to close the Site Bindings page.
4. Require clients to connect with SSL:
a) In the IIS Manager window, in Features view, double-click SSL Settings.
b) Select Require SSL.
This step is optional. If you have problems connecting to the web site, then you may clear this option and
try connecting without SSL.
5. Restart your web site with the new settings:
a) In the Connections list on the left, select Default Web Site again.
b) In the Actions pane, click Restart.
6. Close IIS Manager.
When you want to deploy your IWS project in a production environment, you should request a signed
certificate and reconfigure IIS to use that certificate.
Install the Mobile Access Runtime software
Install the Mobile Access Runtime software on the same computer that will be your project runtime server.
Please note that before you can install the Mobile Access Runtime software, you must have already turned
on and configured Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) with the appropriate features. The software
installer will check for IIS, and if it does not find it, then it will abort the installation. For more information,
see Turn on Microsoft IIS for thin client access over the Internet on page 464.
The Mobile Access Runtime software is an add-on for Microsoft IIS that makes it possible for your project
runtime server to communicate with mobile devices. The software actually consists of two parts:
• A website directory (typically located at C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ma) that contains the ASP.NET code, web
graphics, and stylesheets that power Mobile Access; and
• A pre-configured IIS application pool that coordinates between the web server and the project runtime
server.
You do not need to have the Mobile Access Runtime software installed on your computer in order to develop a
IWS project that includes Mobile Access; the necessary tools are always available in the project development
application.
However, you do need to have the Mobile Access Runtime software installed in order to actually run a IWS
project that includes Mobile Access, and the software must be installed on the same computer that is your
project runtime server. This may be the same computer on which you are running the project development
application (so that you have the project development application, the project runtime server, and the web
server all on the same computer), particularly if you are testing your project locally, but in most cases the
project runtime server will be another, dedicated computer.
There are two possible ways to install the Mobile Access Runtime software. First, you might have selected it as
an installable feature when you installed the full InduSoft Web Studio software. If that is the case, then you
may skip the rest of this task. For more information, see Install the full InduSoft Web Studio software on page
33.
Second, you may use the separate Mobile Access installer (MobileAccess.exe) to install the software after
the fact.
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