[BlueOnyx:03580] Re: Understanding certifications

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc wrote:
> To avoid customer confusion and questions about selfsigned certs, what I do 
> is set  the  /admin to redirect to a secure url from the start.
> E.g.
> http://www.precisionweb.net/admin
> goes to
> https://server79.secure-access.net:81/login.php
> 
> The method to do that (on a BQ server) is edit 
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/bluequartz.conf
> and change the first section to be the secure url.
> 
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                ^([^:]+)
> RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}            !-d
> RewriteRule .*                          https://%1:81/error/forbidden.html 
> [L,R]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                ^([^:]+)
> RewriteRule ^/admin/?$ 
> https://server79.secure-access.net:81/login.php [L,R]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                ^([^:]+)
> RewriteRule ^/siteadmin/?$ 
> https://server79.secure-access.net:81/login.php [L,R]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                ^([^:]+)
> RewriteRule ^/personal/?$ 
> https://server79.secure-access.net:81/login.php [L,R]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                ^([^:]+)
> RewriteRule ^/login/?$ 
> https://server79.secure-access.net:81/login.php [L,R]

Hi Ken,
Do you use a wildcard certificate in order to share a cert across 
several hostnames, or do you put an individual cert on each server?

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Chris Gebhardt
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