Configure Bentley Transmittal Portal for ProjectWise to use a specific URL

Configure Bentley Transmittal Portal for ProjectWise to use a specific URL

Configure Bentley Transmittal Portal for ProjectWise to use a specific URL

note: This information is provided as informational only, please contact your IT department first regarding any questions regarding DNS, IIS or your SSL Certificate.

In setting up Bentley TransmittalsTransmittal Portal (see the BTS Implementation Guide for installation instructions) you must set up a website using SSL.  This website will be configured during the deployment of the Portal software. 

When configuring your portal software, the configuration above will default your portal address to your server name, however you may wish to use a specific URL for your portal for external users to access.  IIS does not let you change the host name of an https binding via the edit button in this dialog:

There is a way to change this host name value through a command line tool, appcmd.  Keep in mind this site name needs to be resolvable through DNS and the SSL certificate would need to be configured with this host name in order for it to work. 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753195(WS.10).aspx

To add a host header to a Web site's binding, use the following syntax:

appcmd set site /site.name:string /bindings.[protocol='string',bindingInformation='string'].bindingInformation:string

The variable site.namestring is name of the site to which you want to add a host header. The variable [protocol='string',bindingInformation='string'] is the existing binding to which you want to add a host header, and bindingInformationstring is the new binding with host header.

For example, to configure a site named contoso with an existing HTTPS binding for all IP addresses, on port 443, without a host header to have a host header named marketing, type the following at the command prompt, and then press ENTER:

appcmd set site /site.name:contoso /bindings.[protocol='https',bindingInformation='*:443:'].bindingInformation:*:443:marketing

For more information about Appcmd.exe, see Appcmd.exe (IIS 7).

Be sure to open command prompt as administrator

After running the command, you will see that the website is now showing your new host name:

Now run the Portal Deployment Wizard again and you will notice the portal address is set with this new host name