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4/16/2007 3:29 PM
 

If it is possible, I would like a more definitive answer to the question of SSL and DNN.

I have read in the Roadmap section of this site (http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Development/Roadmap/SSL/tabid/654/Default.aspx)  where it states that "Currently, DotNetNuke does not officially support SSL."  I have also read in other forum posts where people have discussed setting up IIS to run DNN with SSL and then other discussions which delve into using one of the many (for purchase) modules which can handle SSL centric pages (ie login or whatever else kind of page the user would want protected).

We are currently experiencing an issue in getting a DNN site up and running and we believe it is related to DNN and SSL.
We are a government site and are required to run SSL on every server/website we have. After a successful install of DNN 4.5 on one of our servers (again we only handle  only https request), we are having an issue with the default DNN site not working. In ie6, the site just has a continuos processing status and the page never loads. In Firefox, the error stated in the browser reads "The page isn't redirecting properly - Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."
A user is able to access select files within the directory folder as in logo.gif, but the website's default.aspx does not process.

We do have a "test" 4.4.1 DNN application running quite successfully on a development server that does not have SSL.

So it appears with our testing, that without somekind of purchase of a third party module (and it would seem that even with something like that, that our problem is still not solved because we can't get the site to even come up in a default state). That we are not going to able to use DNN.

We look forward to the clarification of our delimma that only this forum can provide. Thank you for your time.

 
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4/16/2007 9:20 PM
 

I use a third-party SSL handler (SSLRedirect) on a commercial website and in that setting specify via the config file which pages I want redirected to https. It works well.

However, in a different setting (state university) we have SSL on the web server, and I can access any DNN portal in the domain with either http or https, with none of the issues you are mentioning. (That's currently still DNN 3.1.1 but don't see what would be different about 4.x in that regard.)

Is this an install from DNN source code that you compiled, or from the DNN install package? If the former, check that it was not compiled in debug mode, and if it was, recompile in release and see if that helps ... if the latter, dunno - do your non-DNN pages work ok?

I don't think you need the third party solutions for a site that is entirely in SSL ... their main point is to allow you to pick and choose which pages are so you can use SSL for sensitive data but avoid the overhead of encryption otherwise. They don't make DNN more SSL-capable, however, afaik.


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4/27/2007 10:03 AM
 

If you are still struggling with this,I believe your problem has to do with the portal alias.

You can change the value of the portal alias in the db table 'PortalAlias'. When I want to run my application on my dec PC, I use either 'Localhost/nameOfApp' or 'myIP/nameOfApp'

 

Once the app is moved to the server, you need to change the value to 'yourDomainName.com'

 
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