Chris Riley

Web access to your CloudShare machines

September 13th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Demos & POCs, Dev / Test | Tags: , , , , , , ,


There are several instances you may need to access your CloudShare server from an external browser, without having to remotely log into your machine using RDP or Console access. This is especially useful if you’re showing customers a demo of your Web-based application or the QA team needs to test the Web interface. Well, we’ve had a feature called Web Access, which provides any-time Web access to your machines via a persistent Web address (URL).

Unlike the IP address of the machine which changes when your machine suspends and resumes, and may not be convenient, the URL is persistent, so you can provide to customers or to your sales teams conducting demo or QA teams testing over the Web.

  • The Web access can only be used for HTTP/HTTPS access to your machine, not for other ports or protocols.
  • The system seamlessly auto-resumes suspended environments when a user accesses the environment via the Web.
  • This can be used to access SharePoint and other Web-accessible templates via the Web.
  • This is a special offer – made freely available for a limited time* to ProPlus subscribers.  A subscription upgrade may be required in the future.

For more information on setting this up for your machine, please refer to our announcement at https://community.cloudshare.com/#Topic/18694000000803025

 

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About the author:
I'm Chris Riley ( @HoardingInfo ). And I represent the coders and practitioners that use @CloudShare as technology evangelist. I fancy myself a technologist & and a recognized industry expert in Content Management, Information Architecture, BigData, Text Analytics, and Cloud Virtualization. I commonly speak and author content on these topics.
  • http://www.cloudshare.com Chris Riley

    In addition to allowing access to the web application at port 80 of your VM. The web access feature can also be used on port 3695. Which for our SharePoint templates is the port for Central Admin.

  • http://www.cloudshare.com Chris Riley

    Another important note about web access. When using the Web access feature for SharePoint sites. You need to make sure that the web access URL provided is also configured in Central Administration as an alternate access map. The behavior you will see if you do not do this is “page not found” errors when browsing to sub-sites and settings pages. The reason this happens is because the site starts resolving internally and does not hit the proper URL. But with an alternate access map it can. To learn how to configure alternate access maps go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/Video/ff679917