ProjectWise Users are not able to connect “ProjectWise Web View”. Getting error as unable to communicate with Server ” Test Server: PWAPPT

Offline Vennapusa Reddy Tue, Feb 4 2020 2:04 PM

0 Offline Dan Dimitro Fri, Feb 28 2020 10:56 AM
I worked the Service Request with Ram. When you set up a connection, the server name in the url needs to be in Fully Qualified form rather than short hand NetBIOS name.
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0 Offline Dan Dimitro Tue, Mar 3 2020 8:39 AM
Another aspect to this is that if the server is behind a NAT connection, traffic is unavailable to other hosts. On my test server, I can view the project folders and download, however from any other machine I get the same error message.
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0 Offline Dan Dimitro Mon, Mar 9 2020 11:56 AM

Install and Configure Web Services Gateway / CORS

Install and Configure Web Services Gateway

Bentley Web Services Gateway and the ProjectWise plug-in are delivered with ProjectWise Design Integration Server (ProjectWise Server Setups). You can install them all on the same computer at the same time you are installing ProjectWise Design Integration Server, or you can install Bentley Web Services Gateway and the ProjectWise plug-in together on a separate computer.

You need to have a secure website in IIS (Internet Information Services) where you will deploy the latest versions of Bentley Web Services Gateway and the ProjectWise plug-in.
Install the latest version of ProjectWise Explorer if you don’t already have it, and configure the ProjectWise network to provide Bentley Web Services Gateway with access to the datasource(s) on your ProjectWise Design Integration server or servers.
Install Bentley Web Services Gateway and the ProjectWise plug-in from the ProjectWise Server installer.
Make sure your deployment of Bentley Web Services Gateway with the ProjectWise plug-in deployment is configured to allow CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) requests coming from ProjectWise Web View and integrated Office for the web. To configure this, you need to enter the URL of each of these services (separate each URL with a comma) in the Bentley Web Services Gateway deployment wizard:

For this service	Enter this URL
ProjectWise Web View	https://connect-projectwisewebview.bentley.com
integrated Office for the web	https://connect-mswopiclient.bentley.com
PDF Markup Service	https://connect-pdfmarkup.bentley.com
ProjectShare	https://projectshareportal.bentley.com/ (needs to be added for Webview to work)

If you want to allow external users access to your datasource, or let users view Office documents online, you must configure your Bentley Web Services Gateway deployment to be public facing. There are two places you need to open port 443 (default).

First - and this is required for both internal and external users - in the Windows Firewall on the Bentley Web Services Gateway computer
Second - and this is required only for external users - in your corporate firewall

6. Deploy Bentley Web Services Gateway and the ProjectWise plug-in to your secure website.

Here are diagrams of how access is controlled: Here’s the link to the PowerPoint version with animations.

From <https://communities.bentley.com/products/projectwise/content_management/w/wiki/45318/install-and-configure-web-services-gateway-cors>

https://communities.bentley.com/products/projectwise/content_management/w/wiki/45318/install-and-configure-web-services-gateway-cors