Re: SharePoint 3.0: problems with external access

Costas,
Please excuse my ignorance but I am having some problems understanding the
correct procedures to do this. I know your time is valuable but if you can
take a few moments here to walk me through this I sure would appreciate it.

What would be my first step?
Create a new certificate for the WSS 3.0 website? I'm a bit confused or lack
the knowledge to do so correctly.

"Costas" <cpstechgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That is in the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, under 'Operations'.

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Costas


"AllenM" <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Where is this located?
"Go to 'Alternate Access Mappings' and in the 'Internet Zone' for your
application,type: https://remote.domain.com:8000



"Costas" <cpstechgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Allen,

Port 443 won't work because it is already used by the Default Web Site.
What you need to do is create a wildcard certificate and use it in ISA.
This will allow you to have multiple web sites behind ISA. The steps
are outlined in the following document
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2004/maintain/wildcard.mspx

If I remember correctly, when I used to run CEICW, it used to overwrite
the certificate with the publishing.x.x so I had to reset it.

I'll try to find sometime to see if there is any other way to do that
but I don't believe there is. ISA 'complicates' things a bit for small
business environment but that's only because it's designed to be very
secure


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Costas


"AllenM" <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Costas. Quick question regarding the SSL port to use and the ISA
rule. Does it require a certain SSL port to use? Any preferred port for
SSL? 443? Also what protocaol/Listener do I use when creating the ISA
rule. SBS Web Listener?


"Costas" <cpstechgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Allen,

The steps to publish WSS 3.0 applications behind ISA 2004 are the same
as those that I posted earlier. The additional step would be to
create a secure web server publishing rule in ISA Server to forward
the requests to the site. I had a similar setup up to recently but I
don't currently have any installations with ISA installed to be able
to guide you step-by-step.

If you have any problem configuring ISA let me know and I'll do my
best to help. There is also a document you might want to take a look
at (
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4C5BF9DD-3EFB-451D-B213-98ED039190BF&displaylang=en )
This talks bout Portal Server 2003, but the steps as far as ISA 2004
is concerned are the same. Actually I think the document is more
complicated than the process to setup the rules :-)

As far as linking to the application from within companyweb, first you
must complete the above steps and then add a link, in companyweb, to
the external URL. That should do it.

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Costas


"AllenM" <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pardon my intrusion here but I've been following this thread as it is
similiar to what I am trying to accomplish. Costas you seem to have a
good knowledge of WSS 3.0 and publishing it for external access. So
instead of posting my own thread if you all don't mind I'll post as a
continuation here. thanks.

Here's my situation. Like Charles I have installed WSS 3.0 in a side
by side configuration as suggested by MS. Everything works fine as
well as my WSS 2.0 companyweb. I have SBS 2003 Premium server SP1 and
am using ISA 2004 SP2. My WSS 2.0 companyweb is accessable from
internal as well as external.

http://companyweb (internal)
https://FQDN:444 (external)

I want to be able to access my WSS 3.0 externally as well. So I
thought the easiest way to do it was to add a link to my WSS 2.0
companyweb that points to my WSS 3.0 website. Works fine. Internally
only. I was wrong to think that it would work externally. So my
question to you all would be.........

1. How would I get the link on my WSS 2.0 companyweb pointing to my
WSS 3,0 website to work externally.
2.How would I publish the WSS 3.0 website to access externally
direct.

http://servername:8084/sites/companyweb3/default.aspx (internal URL
for WSS 3,0 website)


"Costas" <cpstechgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Charles,

Glad to hear external access worked. As far as editing directly the
IP address in IIS, that is something that isn't recommended with
SharePoint sites. Anything you need to do, you must do from within
Central Administration.

If the application didn't work internally, having as IP address the
'All Unassigned', that most probably means, that you didn't provide
a host header name when you created the application. If a host
header is defined, IIS knows where to router the requests for
'http://mysite'

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Costas


"Charles" <Charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Costas,
Many thanks, this is exactly the input I needed. So the port number
one
needs in the external address is in fact the port used by SSL! Of
course of
course. So I did exactly that and...it works externally, great !

I had an issue with internal access as a result of the changes, but
I think
I will able to solve it on my own (or so I hope-;): under the SP
3.0 website
in IIS, I had to tweak the IP address under properties (from
undetermined to
192.168.16.2) so that I regained internally access. Any thoughts on
that?
Correct you think?

Unfortunately I cannot test external access right now because I am
on the
LAN and that my computer at home is not available for VPN (btw, do
you any
easy way to test remote access other than VPNing a specific
computer off the
LAN?)

Anyway I will keep you posted on external+internal access but the
hardest
part is behind me now, thanks again
"Costas" wrote:

Charles,

Let's say that your Internet facing side responds to:
https://remote.domain.com (in other words in order to access RWW
you type
https://remote.domain.com/remote)

In IIS, go to the web site that SharePoint is using and create a
certificate
that listens to port 8000 (as per your example). Make sure that
next to
SSL, it shows 8000, in the Properties section.

Go to 'Alternate Access Mappings' and in the 'Internet Zone' for
your
application,type: https://remote.domain.com:8000

Open the port 8000 on the firewall and forward it to the server's
internal
IP.

That should do it

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Costas


"Charles" <Charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
We have SBS 2003 standard SP2 behind a Sonicwall TZ 180.

We installed SharePoint 3.0 side-by-side with SP 2.0, no problem
during
installation, we followed the MS instructions for SP 3.0 on SBS
2003.
Everything works fine internally. We like SP 3.0, which we find
a great
improvement over SP 2.0. So far so good.

The trouble is with external access, which we find incredibly
complex to
set
up and so far does not work. Here is what we did :
- Under SP 3.0 Central Administration/Operations/Alternate
Access
Mappings/Public Zone URLs, we have 1) under «default » the
internal url ;
2)
under « internet » https://ip-address:portnumber, where the port
number
was
the one allocated to the site during the initial set up of the
intranet
following the MS intructions (ie "25364") and the ip-address is
our static
external address (also used to access RWW without difficulty,
for
example).
- Under IIS, we found the SP 3.0 web site created during setup,
but with
no
Certificate, which we then added (we used the existing cert also
used for
RWW), and specified a SSL port different from the TCP one (which
is the
above
25364, so that the SSL is, for example, 8000). I think that I
don't
really
understand how the SSL port works and what it is for, so I
suspect that I
am
doing something wrong here.
- In the Sonicwall, we opened both the 25364 and the 8000 ports
After trying different combinations of the above (for example :
no
specification of the SSL port. ?), the SP 3.0 site still does
not work
externally.
What I am doing wrong or missing ?
Thanks for your help
Charles














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