[BlueOnyx:03581] Re: Understanding certifications

[Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet" <cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com>
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:39 PM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:03580] Re: Understanding certifications


> 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?
>
> -- 
> Chris Gebhardt
> VIRTBIZ Internet Services
> Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated
> www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ
>

Chris

A 2048 bit wildcard cert from Register.com
Register.com allows you to use the wildcard across unlimited separate 
physical servers.

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Ken Marcus
Ecommerce Web Hosting by
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net