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# sk122179 - Support for multiple web applications with a single authorized location

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk122179 |
| Date Created | 2019-12-09 |
| Last Modified | 2020-04-12 |
| Technical Level | General |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * There are environments in which a single web server is set to host several different web sites. In most cases, they're distinguished from each other by having a different path in their URL. For example: http://www.webserver.com/site1/ http://www.webserver.com/site2/
* In other cases, the web sites are distinguished from each other by the host/FQDN in the URL, rather than the path. http://site1.webserver.com/ http://site2.webserver.com/ For this to work however, a DNS server is required to resolve both URLs to the same IP address of the websever that hosts those sites.

## Solution

In both of the scenarios above, since the same webserver hosts both sites, the user is forced to create two web application objects for each site while using the same authorized location.

Using the same authorized location for more than one Web Application object without certain tweaks can cause the objects settings to "mix up" with each other. Like SSO settings, allowed ports, protection levels, etc...

So when configuring separate Web Application objects for each web site, while having the same server is authorized location, the following steps should be taken:

For scenario 1:

While the same authorized location can and should be used, the "allow access to specific directories" opiton must be used in order to distinguish the two objects from each other.

![](https://sc1.checkpoint.com/sc//SolutionsStatics/sk122179/Untitled11912110809.jpg)

The other web application object for site2 should have "/site2" instead.

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For scenario 2:

Use DNS objects for authorized location instead:

![](https://sc1.checkpoint.com/sc//SolutionsStatics/sk122179/Untitled21912110815.jpg)

![](https://sc1.checkpoint.com/sc//SolutionsStatics/sk122179/Untitled31912110817.jpg)

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