Activating Singlefront

This topic provides you with an overview of the Singlefront 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.

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 Data/Default/Config directory. 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.

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Single domain, single processor - This license allows you to have one domain name running on a single processor. Domain names are fully qualified so for instance http://MyStore.com, http://MyStore.com/store and http://test.MyStore.com are all considered separate domains and require separate licenses.

•	Multiple domain, single processor - This license allows you to run an unlimited number of domains on a single processor.

For both of these license types, if your server has multiple processors or if you use a load balanced server you will need additional licenses for each processor. "Multi-Core" processors are considered as one processor and only require one license.

When running your storefront from within Visual Studio or accessing the site from http://localhost (or any variation such as http://localhost/store) 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 need to 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.

For the single domain license you can activate as many times as needed on a single domain. Once activated, you can not activate the storefront again to a different domain. You may not run the storefront on a load balanced server without purchasing additional licenses for each processor.

With the multiple domain license you can activate as many times as needed on a single processor. Each activation can use a different domain if you like. Once activated you can not activate on another processor.