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Open question for any reseller using SHARED SSL for their virtual domains! HELP!
| Posted by coolcreator, 07-01-2002, 03:09 AM | | Hi all -
I have a question for any resellers that
currently use SHARED SSL for their clients'
domains...I desperately need to know how this
is done! It probably will sound stupid to a lot
of you on these boards, but I'm a total newbie!
I am a reseller...and also host many virtual
domains that I own...on the same virtual server.
I am wanting to set up a shared SSL server that
I can use for all of the domains on the server.
MANY hosts offer this! I just need to know
how to set it up...and if it HAS TO BE a
particular kind of certificate - such as a wildcard
or a shared cert...OR can I just create a
new domain as the registrant of the site cert...
and then have subdirectories for the other
domains under that secure site? How do you set
them up? Are they just regular subdirs or do
they actually just point to the virtual domains
themselves?
Example:
I own host.com (yeah, don't I wish! )
My clients are on virtually hosted domains:
Domain1.com
Domain2.com
I now register secure-site.com, host it on
the same server as the others (IP-based, of
course) and use that site to get a certificate.
If Domain1.com has an order form that needs to
be secure...can't they just link directly to:
https://www.secure-site.com/Domain1/orderform.html????
(...and get no message about domain names not
matching? Will this work?)
I don't mind, and neither do my clients, that
we would have to use the oddball-named server
and not our OWN domain name in the secure URL,
so I don't suppose any redirects and the like
would be called for. I'm not totally sure how
some hosts do that. I know that in one of my virtually hosted accounts, all I had to do was
put the html page (ex: orderform.html) in my
main folder, but CALL it through the secure server...not quite sure how that works. It
looks like that page is on the secure server,
when it actually is in my main folder. Can
anyone explain that to me in plain English?
Maybe that's where the redirects come in?????
Is that it? Is there anything that I'm missing
here? It almost seems TOO simple!
(other than the price if I am forced to use a
shared/multiple/wildcard cert! I can't afford
that yet! )
Please reply if you know anything at all about
this stuff - I really need to get some domains
going with the shared SSL as soon as I can!
Thanks!!!!!!!!
CoolCreator
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| Posted by The3bl, 07-01-2002, 03:34 AM | | As a resller all you can really do is setup a secure domain and create sub domains off it. Then call them secure.com/domain/orderform.html
That works as long as a static order form is all they need. If they have a shopping cart that switches to a secure area on checkout it becomes a little more complicated than that. Then as a resller it is better to give them a static IP and let them get a cert of their own.
A regular cert works just fine. If you want to see it in action email me monte@techark.com and I will give you some URLs to see how it looks from a client side.
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| Posted by hostnoob, 08-26-2002, 11:49 PM | | What if the whole order or shopping cart is created in that secure.com/domain/orderform.html subfolder?? will it work? (im' new too can you tell?)
I am planning to design my clients website and host it using a reseller program. then I would just create sub-domains for each client and have all content SSL cert.. does that sounds good???
Thanks
nOOb
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