Re: [cobalt-users] SSL and Virtual Hosts

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> Van -
> If you need both a secure and a non-secure version of essentially the
> same script, you will need to setup two instances of the cgi script, one
> in the /home/sites/site3/web/cgi-bin (non-secure version) that you've
> mentioned (with any necessary accompanying files), and another on the
> ssl server (with any necessary accompanying files).  You will simply
> need to direct the visitor by pointing to either the secure or
> non-secure location using the correct links.
>
> The default location for files on the secure server is home/httpd/html.
> being a newbie.  Anyway, on the same level as home/httpd/html is
> home/httpd/cgi-bin  This is the default location for cgi/perl scripts on
> the secure server, and you can point to it without referencing up a
> level.  For example, from a secure html page at
> https://ssl.domainname.com/page.html (which is really
> home/httpd/html/page.html), you can point to a script at
> https://ssl.domainname.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi (which is really
> home/httpd/cgi-bin/script.cgi).
>
> However, if you've made the changes I mentioned, you don't need a
> cgi-bin at all.  You can create a sub-directory for "whatever" at
> home/httpd/html/whatever/ and throw your cgis in there.  They will work
> even though they are not in a quote-unquote "cgi-bin" directory because
> of the AddHandler modification in httpd-ssl.conf, which I illustrated
> earlier.  At least that's why I THINK it works.  And at least MINE do.
> Good luck.
> Sincerely yours,
> Fred Watt

You can do it with 1 file if you want by doing this
su in
mv /home/sites/www.yourdomain.com/web/cgi-bin
/home/sites/www.yourdomain.com/web/old-bin

ln -sd /home/httpd/cgi-bin/ /home/sites/www.yourdomain.com.com/web/cgi-bin

you might have to
cd /home/sites/www.yourdomain.com/web/
chown admin cgi-bin/

now move that formmail and whatever else over
mv /home/sites/www.yourdomain.com/web/old-bin/* /home/httpd/cgi-bin/
rm /home/sites/www.yourdomain.com/web/old-bin/
Make sure the GUI has cgi turned on
make sure your scripts have the right ownership and they should run.
http://.....com/cgi-bin/whatever.cgi
or
https://.....com/cgi-bin/whatever.cgi

Zeffie

> > Between your comments and Fred Watt's I have things running, but it's
> > pretty bizarre. The cgi-bin directory for this particular site
> *should* be in
> > /home/sites/site3/web/cgi-bin
> > and now part of it is in
> > /home/httpd/cgi-bin
> >
> > This means that the existing cgi-bin components don't work if the user
> is
> > browsing https://url, and the new stuff doesn't work if they are
> browsing
> > http://url. This is pretty sick.
> >
> > One outcome of this is that if the shopper selects the secure checkout
> it's
> > Miller time, but if they select the nonsecure checkout it's 404 time.
> >
> > Is this really the way it's supposed to work? I don't think so!
> >
> > Van
> >
> > At 10:02 PM 5/21/00 -0400, Zeffie wrote:
> > >> I can generally access anything normally visible with http on that
> virtual
> > >> server with https, but the cgi-bin contents are not found. The root
> domain
> > >> (image-acquire.com) cannot be seen with https, it goes to the "old"
> > >> document root, which is the default in the httpsd.conf file, and
> that
> > >> allows me to see the mod_ssl docs so I don't want to "fix" that
> right
> > >away.
> > >
> > >have you tried putting formmail.pl in /home/httpd/cgi-bin/
> > >
> > >/home/httpd/cgi-bin//formmail.pl
> > >
> > >Zeffie
> > >P.S. I have to work on the ssl probs myself but it's feeding time.
> I'll get
> > >back to you if somebody else dosen't first.
> > >
> > >
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