[BlueOnyx:03583] Re: Understanding certifications

[Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Dory" <jdory at nomealaska.org>
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:43 PM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:03582] Re: Understanding certifications


>
>
> On 2/12/2010 1:26 PM, Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
> I suppose that unfortunately I would not be able to do this as I have
> only one ip address for this server, which is named nomecity.org but has
> the virtual site of nomealaska.org , which is what we're using.
> Appreciate this info though - I can consider perhaps purchasing an
> additional ip address.
>
> /jim
> _______________________________________________
>

Jim

Since the admin server port (81) is different, then you can do it on the 
same IP.


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