How to secure Live Score endpoint ?

How to secure Live Score endpoint ?

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Article ID: KB0077834

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Products Versions
Spotfire Statistica 13 and later versions

Description

PREREQUISITES:
LiveScore Server
Administrator Privileges on LiveScore Server
Application Request Routing to be installed on the server. This can be downloaded from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47333
Secure Webstatistica as described here 

Issue/Introduction

How to secure Live Score endpoint ? In other words, make it respond on https:\\localhost\LiveScore.

Resolution

1. Log into Live Score Server as an Administrator and ensure pre-requisites described above are installed.

2. Launch Control Panel >> System And Security>> Administrative Tools>> Internet Information Services(IIS) Manager

3. Right click on the Secure Website and select Add Virtual Directory...

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4.  Mention LiveScore as the Alias and point it to any physical path on the local computer. Click OK

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5.  Double click on URL Rewrite (from the ARR add in for IIS ) and add an inbound Reverse Proxy Rule as shown below. Ensure SSL is enabled and the mapping is to : localhost:[port]/LiveScore

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6. Restart the website

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7. To verify the solution, you may open a browser and browse to : https://[ServerName]/LiveScore. Note that if the certificate is self-signed it is normal for the browser to warn you about the certificate. Click on Continue to the website. A successful response would be getting :   HTTP GET method is only supported for service port probing in the browser.

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