If the HTML Access client needs to be served by the desktop, you must perform some setup tasks on the desktop. This enables a user to point a browser directly at a desktop.
Procedure
- Open Control Panel.
- Navigate to .
- Select the check box Internet Information Services and click OK.
- In Control Panel, navigate to .
- Expand the items in the left pane.
- Right-click Default Web Site and select Edit Bindings....
- Click Add.
- Specify https, All Unassigned, and port 443.
- In the SSL certificate field, select the correct certificate.
Option |
Action |
Certificate vdm is present. |
Select vdm and click OK. |
Certificate vdm is not present. |
Select vdmdefault and click OK. |
- In the Site Bindings dialog, remove the entry for http port 80 and click Close.
- Click Default Web Site.
- Double-click MIME Types.
- If the File name extension .json does not exist, in the Actions pane, click Add.... Otherwise, skip the next 2 steps.
- For File name extension, enter .json.
- For MIME type, enter text/h323 and click OK.
- For File name extension, enter .mem.
- For MIME type, enter text/plain and click OK.
- Copy VMware-Horizon-View-HTML-Access-y.y.y-xxxxxx.zip to a temporary folder.
- Unzip VMware-Horizon-View-HTML-Access-y.y.y-xxxxxx.zip.
The result is a file named
portal.war.
- Rename portal.war to portal.zip.
- Unzip portal.zip to the folder C:\inetpub\wwwroot.
If necessary, adjust the permissions on the folder to allow files to be added.
The folder
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\portal is created.
- Open Notepad.
- Create the file C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Default.htm with the following content (replace <IP address or DNS name of desktop> with the actual IP address or DNS name of the desktop):
<HEAD>
<noscript>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=https://<IP address or DNS name of desktop>/portal/webclient/index.html">
</noscript>
</HEAD>
<script>
var destination = 'https://<IP address or DNS name of desktop>/portal/webclient/index.html';
var isSearch = !!window.location.search;
window.location.href = destination + (isSearch ? window.location.search + '&' : '?') + 'vadc=1' + (window.location.hash || '');
</script>