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Setting Up the Provisioning URL

The provisioning URL is where the ArcotID OTP authentication service is hosted. The user must specify this URL while adding ArcotID OTP accounts. The user authentication requests are processed based on the URL that is configured for a specific account.

It is recommended that you consider the following points while setting up the provisioning URL:

• The provisioning URL must be in HTTPS scheme format.
• To relieve users from typing the provisioning URL path, it is recommended of using the default path of /otp/cprov. That way user has to enter the server name in the Server URL field.

If the preceding points are not considered while setting up the provisioning URL, then the following processing is performed on the provisioning URL that you specify:

• If the URL scheme is not specified, then the default HTTPS value is applied to the URL.
• If the server name is followed by at least one forward slash (/), then the URL is used as it is; otherwise the /otp/cprov string is appended. For example, if the user enters www.foo.com as the provisioning server URL, then the https://www.foo.com/otp/cprov URL is used as the actual provisioning server URL.