Re: [cobalt-users] admin GUI on https?

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> Is there any way to have the admin GUI come up on https?
> I thought I had seen that happen before, but I think I may
> just be confused with :81 (port 81) and not https. I would
> rather run my admin GUI's on https over http. Is this possible?
> 
> Any info appriciated!

If you have a RaQ3 or RaQ4, install an SSL certificate on the "base"
domain on the server.  Then all admin interfaces for all domains will
become https-encrypted.

Side benefit: any other SSL-enabled virtual site without its own SSL
cert will share the base domain's cert.
Side negative: if the SSL certificate is self-signed, all site admins
will get the browser pop-up warning message that the cert signer is
unknown etc (until the site admin adds your cert to their browsers stash
of "known good" certs).

If you're on MIPS RaQ (1 or 2), you have to go to
http://order.brosoft.net/ and purchase SSL support from them first...

-- 
Bruce Timberlake
Technology Engineer
Sun Cobalt Server Appliances
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

E: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx
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