Using Access Control With Virtual Servers; Using Cgis With Virtual Servers; Using Configuration Styles With Virtual Servers - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 04-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Using Enterprise Server Features with Virtual Servers
One way to implement SSL with virtual servers is to have two listen sockets, one
using SSL and listening to port 443, and one that is not using SSL. A user would
typically access the virtual server through the non-SSL listen socket. When the
need to have secure transactions arises, users could click a button on the web page
to start initiating secure transactions. After that, the requests go through the secure
listen socket.
Because SSL transactions are much slower than non-SSL transactions, this design
limits the SSL transactions to only the ones that are necessary. Faster, non-SSL
connections are used the rest of the time.
For more information on setting up and using security with you Enterprise Server
and virtual servers, see Chapter 5, "Securing Your Enterprise Server." For a
diagram of a sample SSL configuration with virtual servers, see "Example 2: Secure
Server," on page 269.

Using Access Control with Virtual Servers

With virtual servers you have the ability to set up access control on a per virtual
server basis. You can even configure it so that each virtual server can have user and
group authentication using an LDAP database. For more information, see
"Controlling Access for Virtual Servers," on page 204.

Using CGIs with Virtual Servers

You can use CGIs on virtual servers. There are many settings that you can
configure on for access and security reasons.
For more information on setting up and using CGIs, see "Installing CGI
Programs," on page 295.

Using Configuration Styles with Virtual Servers

Configuration styles are an easy way to apply a set of options to specific files or
directories that your various virtual servers maintain. For more information on
using configuration styles see Chapter 15, "Applying Configuration Styles."
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