Re: [cobalt-users] SSL Mechanics

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 11/29/99 12:15 PM, Provincetown Design Group at pdg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

> I'm new to this list and very happy that I've found it! Thanks Cobalt
> for redesigning your support area and making this list more obvious.
> Now how about working on a FAQ compiled from all these wonderful user
> contributions???

kb.cobaltnet.com is the closest thing to a FAQ we currently have.  Sometimes
its helpful, other times it's not.

 
> Anyway, I'm thinking of installing the SSL rpm from Cobalt's site
> unto my RAQ2 and wondering how it's going to work in the end. From
> the documentation I gather that all the https URLs are served from
> one directory (can't remember which offhand). Does this mean that
> it's not possible to have one Raq serve up https for more than one
> domain?
>
> What I want to do is have the Raq handle https requests for
> potentially every domain hosted on it. Is this possible? How does it
> work? Does each domain have a subdirectory in this main directory?
> Does each site require its own certificate? (I'd imagine so)...

Really, we're talking about Apache here.  You can do just about anything
you'd like.  It just depends on how you far into it you want to get.  In
anycase, when I installed the Redhat Secure Server for the Raq2, I don't
remember being limited to one directory.

BUT, you won't be able to server https for 'more than one domain' without
having secure certificates for each domain.  That is the way the
certificates work--on domain instead of ip.  Not that big of a deal--just
setup a common server name like secure.i-am-an-isp.net and have the
customers have access to their ~ directores (or /users/ is how the Cobalt
stuff is setup--you'll want to check).

-k