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Figure 14-1. The Default Home Page

14.10. Accessing Your Secure Server

To access your secure server, use a URL like this:

https://your_domain

Note that URLs which are intended to connect to your secure Web server should begin with

the https: protocol designator instead of the more common http: protocol designator.

Your non-secure server can be accessed using an URL like this:

http://your_domain

The standard port for secure Web communications is port 443. The standard port for non-

secure Web communications is port 80. The secure Web server default conﬁguration listens

on both of the two standard ports. Therefore, you will not need to specify the port number

in a URL (the port number is assumed).

However, if you conﬁgure your server to listen on a non-standard port (i.e., anything besides

80 or 443), you will need to specify the port number in every URL which is intended to

connect to the server on the non-standard port.

For example, you may have conﬁgured your server so that you have a virtual host running

non-secured on port 12331. Any URLs intended to connect to that virtual host must specify

the port number in the URL. The following URL example will attempt to connect to a non-

secure Web server listening on port 12331:

http://your_domain:12331