Adding an application domain

This topic describes adding a new application domain. If you want to add a new certificate authority (CA) domain, see Adding a new CA domain.

By default, all CGIs or JSPs (depending on the method you are using to implement the PKI Services web application) reside under a common URL. Based on this, all users, including PKI administrators, have the same PKI Services home page, web content and supported certificate templates. In other words, by default, there is a single application domain: PKISERV.

The sample PKI Services template files (pkiserv.tmpl and pkitmpl.xml) contain two application sections: PKISERV and CUSTOMERS. Using these two application sections, your users can be easily divided between two subsets - customers and administrators.

You might want to separate your administration users and your end users. You might also need to further subset your end user population by adding different application domains for different groups of end users. Both of these objectives can be accomplished by using multiple applications. The PKI administrators and the different subsets of end users can be directed to different application domains at different URLs.