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Adding Allowed Hosts

To allow SiteBuilder users to publish their web sites, you should define the hosts to which publishing is allowed. These hosts are called 'allowed hosts' because sites created using the SiteBuilder Wizard can be published only to the specified hosts. All hosts to which publishing is allowed must be added to the general list of allowed hosts in the SiteBuilder database. Then, allowed hosts included into the general list should be assigned to particular business plans, sites, and reseller accounts. For sites and resellers, allowed hosts are defined during creation or editing plans and reseller account properties (about this, see the Managing Resellers and Managing Sites sections). This section describes how to add allowed hosts to the SiteBuilder database through the Remote Admin for SiteBuilder 2 module interface.

To manage allowed hosts and view the list of allowed hosts/IP ranges:

  1. On the SBM main page, click Allowed Hosts.
  2. On the Allowed Hosts management page, view the list of all hosts to which publishing is allowed. This list is retrieved from the SiteBuilder administration panel. All allowed hosts are organized in a list with the following columns:

To add new hosts to the SiteBuilder database:

  1. To add either a single host or a range of IP addresses, do one of the following:
  2. On the next page, specify the host name, for example mydomain.com, a single IP address, or the range of IP addresses. Select the Active check box if you want this host or IP range to be activated immediately after it is added.
  3. Click Save.

To edit the host name or the range of IP addresses:

  1. Click the name of the host or the range of IP addresses in the Host Name column.
  2. On the next page, type the new host name or the new values for IP addresses.
  3. Click Save. The new values will be applied.

To activate / deactivate hosts:

  1. Select the check box corresponding to the host you want to activate/deactivate. You can select several hosts at once.
  2. Click one of the following buttons below the list:

To delete a host or several hosts from the SiteBuilder database:

  1. Select the check box corresponding to the host you want to delete. You can select several hosts at once.
  2. Click Delete.
  3. In the confirmation dialog box, confirm the operation and click OK. The selected hosts will be deleted from the SiteBuilder database and from all plans and reseller accounts where it was used.

    Note: When deleting or deactivating a host, make sure that the plans and reseller accounts that used this host have other hosts allowed for publishing sites. If you delete one host, publishing sites will be automatically redirected to the remaining hosts. If there are no other hosts assigned to a plan or reseller, publishing will be impossible after the last host is deleted.

See Also

Administering SiteBuilder

Configuring Plans

Managing Resellers

Managing Sites