Introduction

This howto will show you how you can create a webinterface in Citrix Presentation Server 4.0.

We used certain standards to implement it and you can offcourse implement your own standards.

This howto is a basic guide how you can create a webinterface for MPS4.0. In MPS3.0 you simply installed the webinterface and you were ready to launch it. Now if you launch the webinterface from http://localhost/citrix/default.htm you get a nice website stating you need to create a site first.

"Before you can use the Web Interface, you must create one or more sites using the MetaFrame Access Suite Console. In the console tree, right-click on Web Interface under the Configuration Tools extension, then select Create site and follow the instructions in the wizard.
To enable a webinterface for MPS4.0 you have to access the Citrix Access Console (ACC) and browse to web Interface."

Before we did that we ran a discovery

Opening the Access Console Suite is easy. simply browse to the citrix programs and open the console. Now you will get they first starter welcome screen. I would recommend to run it the first time and then the next time you can decide wether or not to mark the "Skip this screen in the future" so you want be bothered anymore with it. We took screenshots of what you can expect from it

 Before you can proceed you need to add a web interface configuration server. In this case the Testserver was choosen.

Ready to run discovery

 Discovery in progress. This can take some time if you have a large farm. After the discovery is finished all you need to do is press the finish button.

Creating the Web Interface (WI)

Browse to the Suite Components > Web Interface and right click on it. Now choose "Create site".

 Well next step would be leaving it default on "Metaframe Presentation Server" and click next.

 The next window we now get you can choose to create a IIS site were the WI is hosted. We left it default but as you can see you can make multiple sites.

Now you have to add a server before you can continiue. We left the configuration default and choose "Testserver" as the server. (we didn't have more to choose from).

Now you can choose the farmname and add servers (for failover). Since we only had 1 server we werent able to add more.

Next is the summary were you can check if all you configured is the right way configured.

You have to be patient cause your server will work for a bit.

When the site configuration is completed you can see it in your  Citrix Access Console.

When you now open internet explorer and type in http://localhost/Citrix/MetaFrame/default.htm you get a redirection url. It will redirect you to the correct url namely http://localhost/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx which is also new in MPS4.0 in compare to MPS3.0.

Well this coveres the basics for creating a webinterface.