[cobalt-users] Forms & SSL [was IP Change]

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From: <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:29 AM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] IP Change
> > I had a number of sites using the same IP address. As the
> > servers main site is now using SSL, I am changing the IP
> > addresses for all the other sites...
>
> Just to make sure... you're aware that you can only have one SSL-enabled
> site per IP, but that this site *can* share the IP with lots of
> non-SSL-enabled sites? The SSL site must be the only SSL-secured site on
> the IP, but it doesn't have to be *the only site* on the IP.
> etc.
> If you've made any changes to the httpd.conf file, you should restart
> the *web* server... not the machine itself.
> Rodolfo J. Paiz
> rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
Hi Rudolfo

Thanks to you and the others who replied about IP changes. Just a question
on one of your points: Re having more than one site sharing the IP while
only one of them had SSL - yes, that was my understanding too although my
original message didn't imply that.

The server's main site had a self generated SSL certificate. I migrated a
client to the RaQ and after the move, they said their visitors had a
"warning about the SSL certificate" when they filled out the forms. I
assumed that I didn't see the warning because I had "installed" the SSL
certificate in my browser. More recently, the client started using FrontPage
and the forms were converted over to FrontPage. Yesterday, I "removed" the
SSL certificate in my browser just to see if I got the warning in the
clients FrontPage forms and I didn't. Can you think of any reason the client
got the SSL warning when they filled out the forms prior to moving over to
FrontPage? It was really this that prompted me to start changing the IPs in
the first place. Fortunately, I only changed the IPs on some "under
construction" pages so far. Strangely, a handful of them resolve through to
the changed IP site already after just 2-3 hours.

Thanks - Arthur