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Domain Names and FrontPage Webs
FrontPage webs can be implemented on an Enterprise Server and accessed by web
browsers in the following ways:
•
As private domain names, such as
implemented as virtual servers on the same physical server machine using
multi-hosting. Private domain name customers each get their own root web
and have the option of creating sub-webs.
•
As a common or shared domain but with private virtual servers, as in
www.example.myprovider.com
and
www.example
on a shared domain each get their own root web and have the option of
creating sub-webs.
•
As a URL on an Internet service provider's server machine, as in
www.example.com/mycompany
Security Issues
FrontPage implements web security on your web server by changing the
access-control lists (ACLs) for all files and directories in each FrontPage web.
Installing FrontPage always modifies the ACLs of the Server Extensions stub
executables contained in the
of FrontPage will additionally modify the ACLs of the web content files, but an
upgrade of an existing installation of the Server Extensions will not modify the
content file ACLs and consequently will leave the security settings at a less secure
level than the default FrontPage settings. You can upgrade the ACLs of your web
content by using the Check and Fix option of the FrontPage Server Administrator
utility.
In addition to modifying the security ACLs of the web content files, FrontPage
modifies the ACLs of any system DLLs that are used as a result of a FrontPage DLL
call, to ensure that the system DLLs will have the correct level of permissions to
run under any administrator, author, or end-user's account. For the complete set of
ACLs set on FrontPage files, along with a discussion of security considerations
when installing the Server Extensions and the reasons why the ACLs of the system
DLLs must be modified, see the additional resources available at Ready-to-Run
Software and Microsoft's web sites.
www.example.com
, where
is a private virtual server. Private virtual server customers
. URL customers get a single sub-web.
directory in each web. A new installation
/_vti_bin
Appendix E
. These are usually
is a shared domain
myprovider.com
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