Setting Up Secure Exchange

Secure Exchange is used when a Web server does not provide Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) functionality but you still want to access Web pages securely over the Internet. If Secure Exchange is enabled, then all of the HTTP requests coming to the iChain Proxy Server will be redirected to HTTPS, causing the data exchanged between the browser and the server to be encrypted using SSL.

To set up Secure Exchange:

1. Export a base-64 trusted root file for the Web server where you want to enable secure access.

2. Access the URL of the proxy server where you installed the iChain Proxy Services software to launch the proxy server browser-based administration tool.

   For example, http://xx.xx.xx.xx:1959/appliance/config.html

   where xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP address.

3. Click Configure > Web Server Accelerator > Modify.

4. Check Enable Secure Exchange.

5. Specify the SSL listening port to use for Secure Exchange traffic.

6. Specify the certificate to use to establish the Secure Exchange session.

7. Click Secure Exchange Options.

8. Click Enable Secure Access Between Secure Exchange and Web Server.

9. Click Insert > Import Trusted Root.

10. Enter a file name with a .DER extension.

11. Paste the contents of the previously exported base-64 trusted root file in the lower text box.

12. Click OK > OK > Apply.