Re: [cobalt-users] SSL is driving me crazy

["RHLinux- WHN" <rhlinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or if you are using secure.yourdomain.com you can do this

ln -s /home/sites/www.customerdomain.com/web
/home/httpd/html/customerdomainname

Regards

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bush" <jbush@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] SSL is driving me crazy


> you need to make symbolic links from your main site to that of other
> sites:
> 
> For instance, your site is at /home/sites/www.maindomain.com/web
> Theirsite is at /home/sites/www.theirsite.com/web
> 
> Telnet to your server and type:
> 
> ln -s /home/sites/www.theirsite.com/web
> /home/sites/www.maindomain.com/web/theirsite
> 
> That will make a symbolic link in your main site's web space to the
> other virtual site.
> 
> Then to call theirsite securely, you would access:
> https://www.maindomain.com/theirsite/filename.html
> 
> This way you won't have to copy any files or create any more users.
> You may have to do some ownership and group fiddling to get cgi scripts
> to work, that is my personal task for tomorrow.
> 
> Liz wrote:
> 
> > I tired doing something similar to
> > "secure.yoursite.com/theirsite1" but no such luck. I'm not
> > using "secure.domain.com"...just a regular "www.domain.com"
> > as my SSL domain name which has a certificate.  Maybe that's
> > why I'm having problems?
> >
> > It seems the only other option I'm stuck with is to create a
> > user for each site where the URL would be...
> > https://www.domain.com/~user/
> > I'm not crazy about doing this at all since I would prefer
> > it if all user files remained within their own directory
> > structure.
> >
> > I was informed today that Cobalt didn't make a SSL patch for
> > the RaQ3 as they did for the RaQ2.  Until that's available
> > the following isn't suppose to work
> > https://www.domain.com/site#/
> > Please share how you got your's working! :)
> >
> > ------Original Message------
> > From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: January 21, 2000 9:00:10 PM GMT
> > Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] SSL is driving me crazy
> >
> > At 10:43 AM 1/21/00  Liz wrote:
> > >I'm seriously lost on this SSL stuff and am hoping someone
> > >in this group can help answer the following...
> > >
> > >What the best way to setup the RaQ3 so each virtual site
> > can
> > >share one common ssl certificate?
> >
> > There's only one "real" way to do this without each virtual
> > site customer
> > getting a warning each time they  enter the site:
> >
> > secure.yoursite.com/theirsite1
> > secure.yoursite.com/theirsite2
> >
> > Both Verisign and Thawte will tell you this is a violation
> > of their
> > license.  However, they'll also tell you (under duress, but
> > they will) that
> > everyone does it.
> >
> > So, yoursite.com gets the stand-alone IP# and the
> > certificate.  The rest is
> > all subdirectories.
> >
> > >Is it required that each virtual site must have it's own IP
> > >address in order to share, or can it work with name-based
> > >hosting?
> >
> > Theirsite1.com and theirsite2.com, etc., can have name-based
> > hosting.  Secure.yoursite.com needs its own IP#.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > --
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