Introduction to Force.com Sites

Sites is a feature of Force.com that enables public access to your Visualforce pages. A site is a collection of ordinary Visualforce pages and access control settings assigned to a unique base URL. You can define one or many sites within a Force.com organization. Sites can be individually brought up or down by your organization’s system administrator.

This section divides the discussion of Force.com Sites into four parts, summarized next:

1. Enabling and creating a site—Turn on the Force.com Sites feature and create your first site.

2. Security configuration—Configure the privileges granted to the anonymous user of your site.

3. Adding pages to a site—Select Visualforce pages that are accessible within a site.

4. Authenticating users—Blend public and private pages by integrating a site with Customer Portal.