How to manage multiple Domains with Frontpage on the Sphera Platform

[Eric]

Frontpage users often ask "How do I manage multiple domains within a single vds"? Here are the steps required to do so.

Step 1. Create folders for all of the domains that you wish to manage with Frontpage. The folders cannot be nested beneath another Frontpage site.

The correct way to do this is as follows.

/var/www/html (existing Main Account)
/var/domain2
/var/domain3

This is NOT supported:

/var/www/html
/var/www/html/domain2
/var/www/html/domain3


Step 2. Add domain pointers by logging into your control panel and Clicking:

Domain Settings | New
Enter the domain name and a Custom Directory that you created in step 1.

Note: The domain name is in the form of domain.com NOT [url]www.domain.com[/url]

Step 3. Install Frontpage Extensions via the ValueApps | Web Development Section of the Control Panel if you haven't already.

Click on the "Admin" link next to the Installed FrontPages2002 ValueApp in the Control Panel.

Step 4. Once you are inside the FrontPage Server Administrator click:

Extend a Virtual Server

Enter the path of the VDS apache conf file normally /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Leave the port set to 80

Enter the Domain Name

Enter the Frontpage Administrator username and password.

Enter the unix user account username. The is the account name that you sign into the control panel with.

Enter vuser for the Unix Group name.

[Cliff Joffrion]

This is good information. It works well. I could not seem to get it to work well with CCS pages until I loaded the code into the CCS folder.