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4 Click Sites, then select the website in the list.
5 Click Security below the websites list.
6 In the Security pane, click the “Enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)” checkbox.
When you turn on SSL, a message appears, noting that the port is changed to 443.
7 In the Certicate pop-up menu, choose the certicate you want.
If the certicate is protected by a passphrase, the name of the certicate must match
the virtual host name. If the names don’t match, Web service won’t restart.
If you want to create or edit a certicate, choose Manage Certicates from the
Certicate pop-up menu.
8 Click Save.
9 Conrm that you want to restart Web service.
Server Admin lets you enable SSL with or without saving the SSL passphrase. If you
did not save the passphrase with the SSL certicate data, the server prompts you for
the passphrase upon restart but won’t accept manually entered passphrases. Use the
Security pane for the site in Server Admin to save the passphrase with the SSL certicate
data. For more information, see “Using a Passphrase with SSL Certicates” on page 51.
Managing Access to Sites Using Aliases
You can manage access to websites by using aliases and redirect commands. An alias
is an alternative name for a website, which can be useful in simplifying the name users
must enter to connect to the site. You can have multiple aliases for a single site.
For example, with a host named example.com you might want to provide a server alias
named www.example.com.
The Server Admin Sites Aliases panel mixes two types of aliases.
The top half of the panel is for web server aliases that give an alternate name to the Â
website or virtual host.
The bottom half of the panel is for URL aliases and redirects, which are more detailed. Â
By default, the Sites Aliases panel lists a Web Server Alias * (wildcard) directive. To
perform name-based virtual hosting, remove the wildcard. If you do not remove the
wildcard, browsers trying to access your virtual hosts will access the default host instead.
Note: Server aliases and virtual hosts must be DNS names and they must resolve to
the IP address of the website.
A redirect command species that when users ask for a specic folder or le on a site,
their browser is sent to a dierent location that you designate.