Here is a scenario that you might identify with: having completed the TropicalGreen website and deployed it, the owners of TropicalGreen.net sit you down and tell you they need another website, InternationalGreen.net. In addition, a portion of the site must be secured using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
Immediately, sirens go off in your head. Wait, you think, we only have servers set up to host a single MCMS website. Another website would require another set of servers and licenses. Plus, MCMS uses channels that are not part of the file-system and not managed by IIS, so how can they be secured by SSL?
Don't panic. In this chapter, we will show you how to host multiple websites on a single server and how to implement SSL security without the need for more equipment or MCMS licenses.
We will go over three primary ways you could host different, separate MCMS websites on a single MCMS server. We will review each method and come to a...