Using Server Documents to Manage Internet Access to the Server
Internet Access controls Web users' rights to use information on your server. Although Internet Access can be controlled in many ways, this part of the exam concentrates on Internet Site documents and their associated Web Site Rule documents.
When using the Server document to change Web site configurations, the server or protocol needs to be restarted for the changes to take effect. When you use Internet Site documents to make changes, however, nothing needs to be restarted and these changes usually take effect within minutes.
Your server defaults to the use of the Server document for Internet configuration settings. If you enable, on the Server document, the use of Internet Site documents, the server uses these settings to acquire the configuration information for Internet protocols. Internet Site documents are created to configure Domino's supported protocols, which are HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), IMAP, POP3, SMTP Inbound, LDAP, and IIOP. An Internet Site document would need to be created for each protocol the administrator needs to set up. HTTP (Web site document) is the protocol discussed in this chapter.
Domino Server documents and Internet Site documents are mutually exclusive. In other words, you use one or the other, not the two together, when configuring Internet protocols. When administrators use an Internet Site document for HTTP, they have to continue to use them for the other protocols, not assume the Server document configurations for SMTP inbound are in effect.
Internet Site documents are required when
Certificate Revocation Lists are used when SSL is enabled
Setting up a service provider environment
Designers want to use WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning)
As mentioned earlier, Domino Server documents and Internet Site documents are mutually exclusive. If Internet Site documents are enabled in the Server document, then the server obtains Internet configurations from the Internet Site document and ignores comparable settings in the Server document.
Administrators enable Internet Site documents through the Server document. To enable Internet Site documents, follow these steps:
1. | Select the Server document you want to edit and Click the Edit Server button. |
2. | In the Basics section of the Basic tab, shown in Figure 15.1, enable the Load Internet Configurations from Server/Internet Sites Documents: field. |
3. | Close and Save the Server document. |
4. | Restart the server. |
Every time the server restarts, a console message indicates whether the HTTP task is using Internet Site documents or Server documents for Internet protocol configurations. Even though Internet Site documents have been enabled, a few settings are still configured in the Server document:
Settings for the TCP/IP port on the Ports/Internet Ports tab
Enabling the SSL port on the Ports/Internet Ports tab
Server access on the Security tab
Along with Internet Site documents, administrators can create Global Web Settings documents to establish rules for multiple Web sites, as discussed in detail in the following section.