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9/16/2007 2:37 PM
 
Richard Lasker

Joined: 6/21/2004
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If child portals of a DNN installation are using separate domain names ie www.main-portal.com and www.child-portal.com how should this be set up? Since I was using host headers I figured that wildcard certificates might do the trick but a closer look suggests that wildcards may only be good from sub domains. So, if each child portal needs a separate certificate how would I set that up in IIS? create a separate site for each domain with a separate IP address and point them all to the same installation of DNN?

Any suggestions?
 
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9/16/2007 4:37 PM
 
John Mitchell


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If you are considering SSL for child portals, then you should also consider having the sites in their own instance of DNN.

If you point different IIS sites at the same instance of DNN then you are going to have trouble with scheduler contention because each IIS instance will be firing it's own jobs.

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9/16/2007 6:07 PM
 
Richard Lasker

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That would tend to defeat the purpose of DNN to begin with. The primary benefit was the ability to have multiple sites under a single install. There is no better way? What scheduling would be in conflict?
 
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9/17/2007 10:52 AM
 
John Mitchell


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Having multiple virtual sites in one IIS website is only a feature of DNN.  Sometimes it does not make sense to mix multiple sites together in the same IIS application space. There is a reason why you can't attach more than one SSL certificate to a single IP and port in IIS, and trying to get around that is not a good idea.

The scheduler is only one place to be concerned with, but the reason it has problems is because it is setup to run it's jobs on different threads.  All the jobs belong to the entire installation of DNN, but when you have multiple applications (IIS websites) running jobs from the same set of tasks then each one will fire off it's own search indexer, etc.  If you have two threads running the same search engine task at the same time there is going to be contention.

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9/17/2007 6:44 PM
 
Richard Lasker

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So, digicert is telling me that I should be able to do it with their "new" Unified Communications Certificate. Are you familiar with this type of certificate and will it work using host headers in IIS 6?

http://www.digicert.com/unified-communications-ssl-tls.htm
 
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