What web daemon do you use? The web daemon we use here is Microsoft Internet Information Server, version 4.0. Please check the Microsoft site for documentation; it is very extensive. With the new FrontPage 98 extensions installed, creating or modifying a web in the NT environment is as easy as working in your favorite word processor.

How do I password protect certain directories in my web? The procedure is a bit different in NT than in Unix. For you to be able to designate a user as having access to a directory, that username must exist on the system rather than the 'virtual user' system available with .htaccess. Because of this limitation, we will create 4 extra user if you need it at no extra charge. Other users would be the standard $5/quarter.

What do I use for my default document? Make sure that you use the filename 'index.htm' for your default document - any other filename will result in the appearance that that directory's contents do not exist.

How do I use Secure Socket Layer (SSL)? All that is necessary is to create a directory for your secure documents, notify support@aainternet.com of the location of the directory so that I can enable SSL for that directory, and change the references in your HTML documents from http:// to https://. Keep in mind, though, that you will using AAI security certificate. This will bring up an unusual message in your browser that says the secure certificate belongs to AAI.com; this is normal.

I don't like the message that appears when I use AAI certificate. What can I do? There are basically two ways around this.

Notify your users within your page that your domain is virtually hosted at AAI Wholesale Internet Exchange.

Purchase your own certificate from a Certificate Authority such as Verisign or Thawte. The current cost for a Verisign certificate is $290 payable to Verisign; Thawte is only $100, but is only accepted by later browsers (Netscape 2.0+ and Internet Explorer 3.01+). The steps in this process are:

Fax or email support@aainternet.com a request to CWIE requesting that a key be generated. We will forward a copy of the request to you when we finish generating it.

Go to appropriate Certificate Authority site and fill out the request for a Digital ID for your web server. You will have to paste the request into the form there. I'm not providing a link to the specific page for Stronghold because they have been changing things at Verisign; just make sure you go to the portion for webmasters who are requesting a certificate and choose Microsoft Internet Information Server. IIS 3.0 on Microsoft Server 4.0

When Verisign sends the final certificate, just forward a copy to AAI and the finished product will be installed.
 
 

For any other info regarding the NT systems, please email support@aainternet.com