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Providing Secure Transactions
To provide secure transactions on your server, set up SSL protection. SSL lets you send
encrypted, authenticated information across the Internet. For example, to authorize
credit card transactions through your website, use SSL to protect the information that’s
passed to and from your site.
Important: You can’t use the performance cache for a website if SSL is enabled for
that site.
For instructions on how to set up secure transactions, see “Enabling Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL)” on page 42.
Setting Up Websites
Before hosting a website, you must:
Register your domain name with a domain name authority Â
Create a folder for your website on the server Â
Create a default page in the folder for users to see when they connect Â
Verify that DNS is properly congured if you want clients to access your website Â
by name
When you are ready to publish, or enable, your site, use Server Admin. The Sites pane,
located within Web service, lets you add a site and select settings for each site you
host.
For more information about using WebDAV for le sharing, see “Managing Websites” on
page 48.
Hosting More Than One Website
You can host more than one website simultaneously on your web server. Depending
on how you congure your sites, they might share the same domain name, IP address,
or port. The unique combination of domain name, IP address, and port identies each
separate site.
Your domain names must be registered with a domain name authority such as
InterNIC. Otherwise, the website associated with the domain won’t be visible on the
Internet. (There is a fee for each extra name you register.)
For more information about multiple sites, see “Managing Multiple Sites on One
Server” on page 54.
For more information about WebDAV, see “Understanding WebDAV” on page 16.
For more information about MIME formats, see “Understanding Multipurpose Internet
Mail Extension (MIME)” on page 17.