Activating Multifront

This topic provides you with an overview of the Multifront licensing and activation process. It is extremely important for you to understand this process in order to keep your storefront compliant with the Znode licensing requirements.

What does Activation mean?

When activating the storefront you are required to enter your license key. The storefront will then send this license key to the Znode activation server for verification. Once verified, a license file will be written to the WebApp/License directory (this requires the /WebApp/License folder to have modify permissions for the Network Service account at the folder level). At this point your software will be licensed and the storefront will not need to contact license server again unless it is moved to another server.

Znode Multifront is licensed per CPU and allows an unlimited number of domains to be used with one license. This means that with a single license you can host as many stores as you like. If you use a load balanced environment you will need licenses for each server. Please check your software EULA for exact details on what is and what is not permitted under the license agreement.

When do I need to activate?

When running your storefront from within Visual Studio or accessing the site from http://localhost (or any variation with "localhost" in the name such as http://store1.localhost or  http://localhost/store1) you do not need to activate your software. This mode allows you to do all your development and local testing without any restrictions. Even though no activation is needed, development licenses may be required.

As soon as you access your site from a URL other than http://localhost you will need to activate the software. For instance accessing your site from http://test.MyStore.com or http://www.MyStore.com will require you to activate.

How many times can I activate?

You can activate your license as many times as needed on a single processor. Removing the license file or moving the storefront software to another server will cause it to prompt for activation and will require a separate license.