The next section allows you to configure your apache web server:

• Indexes: The index page is the first page entered on your site. If for any reason it is corrupted or missing, apache can automatically generate a substitute index page. Switch the radio buttons to enable or disable this option.
• Symbolic links: If your file system supports symlinks, enabling these options will allow you to use them.
• Multiviews: If for any reason the requested file is not available, apache will redirect the request to other files with the same name, but a different extension. This is exceptionally useful in handling files with similar extensions, such as .htm, .html, .shtm, etc.

Below is a list of resources that you can buy to enhance your site's functionality:

SSL support

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer protocol) is a standard for transmitting confidential data such as credit card numbers over the Internet.  Most true business sites support this feature which allows increased security in data transmitted over the WWW. This is the standard minimum safe security level for true business on the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypted data that is transferred over the SSL connection. To read more about what is SSL and how it works, go to http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/index.html

Click here to go to the SSL page of this manual.

FrontPage extensions

To enable FrontPage Extensions support, click the ON/OFF button. In the window that appears, enter the login and password you will need to upload your web pages with the FrontPage Publish Web feature:

You can change FPE login and password at any time in the future by clicking the Edit icon that appears next to the ON/OFF button.

CGI

To add a CGI alias, click the Add icon.

In the window that appears, enter File Extension for the files you want to be regarded as scripts. For example, entering .pl extensions will mark all *.pl files as executable scripts. The file extension must begin with a dot.

MIME

There are many predefined MIME types, such as GIF graphics files and PostScript files. In addition, you can also define your own MIME types. To do so, click the Add MIME Type link. New MIME Type page will appear:

• File Extension: Begin file extension with a dot.
• MIME Type: e.g.: text/rtf or video/mpeg.

PHP3

Click the button to enable PHP.

SSI

To add an SSI alias, click the On/OFF button. In the window that appears, enter your SSI File Extension.

The file extension must begin with a dot.

CGI dir

Click the ON/OFF button to create or remove the directory for CGI scripts.

MIVA

For instructions read the Online Store section.

Error

Define the actions to be taken if the requested page on your site is missing. Click the Add icon to configure the error document. In the form that appears enter the error document settings:

• Error Document Code: Enter the error code to change the default message. One of the common errors is File Not Found.
• Message or URL: Enter a text message the visitor will receive or the URL of the page that the visitor will be taken to if the requested page is not found.
• Type: Specify if the text in the previous field is a URL (Redirect) or an error message (Message).

Logs

Enable writing error logs, transfer logs, referrer logs and agent logs. You can view these log files using telnet.  See Web Statistics.

Webalizer

Enable the program that analyzes the transfer log and generates readable HTTP transfer reports. It requires transfer log to be enabled. See Web Statistics.

Modlogan

This package is functionally similar to Webalizer, but it also supports FTP, RealAudio and other protocols. See Web Statistics.

Server Alias

Add an alias to the domain.

Redirect

With this feature you can redirect Internet users from one URL to another. When an Internet user tries to connect to a URL that is redirected, he is taken to the address this URL is mapped to.

To redirect a URL, click the Add icon in the Redirect entry. The following form will appear:

For example entering:
http://www.demo.com/products in the 'Redirect from: ' field and http://www.demo.com/new_proucts.html in the 'to' field will take all the 'http://www.demo.com/products' visitors to the 'http://www.demo.com/project.html' page.

Note: URL path must be an absolute path, not a relative path.

Redirect Status set to:

• Permanent
  returns a permanent redirect status (301) indicating that the resource has moved permanently.
• Temp
  returns a temporary redirect status (302). This is the default and indicates to the client that the resource has moved temporarily.
• See other
  returns a "See Other" status (303) indicating that the resource has been replaced.
• Gone
  will cause a visitor's browser display "The requested resource is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource." message when trying to go to the 'to' URL.

To add a 'redirect' under the Windows plan:

Redirect Status set to:

•  The exact URL entered above redirects requests for any files in the indicated directory to one file.
  - For example, to redirect all requests for files in the 'products' virtual directory to the file new_products.html, type 'www.demo2.com/new_products.html in the 'to' text box and select this option.
• A directory below this one redirects a parent directory to a child directory.
  - For example, to redirect your 'demo2.com/products/new' directory to a subdirectory named 'products', type 'products' in the 'to' text box and select this option. Without this option, the Web server will continually map the parent to itself.
• A permanent redirection for this resource sends the following message to the client: “301 Permanent Redirect.” Redirects are considered temporary, and the client browser receives the following message: “302 Temporary Redirect.” Some browsers can use the “301 Permanent Redirect” message as the signal to permanently change a URL, such as a bookmark.

ColdFusion

Windows plans include some services that are unavailable under UNIX plans. One of them is ColdFusion, a popular and sophisticated set of products for building Web sites and serving pages. With ColdFusion, you can build a content database using input templates and combine these with application programs to create a Web site in which pages are developed dynamically as they are served. Find out much more about ColdFusion at the Allaire home page.

Users that were created under H-Sphere Winbox will automatically have .cfm and .dbm extensions handled by ColdFusion libraries:

Users can also assign custom extension to be handled by ColdFusion.