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3/20/2007 9:32 PM
 
This problem has been getting the best of me. How do I set it up so that more than one portal in the same DNN installation has their own SSL certificate? The rules state that you can have only one SSL per IP. But I want to have multiple ecommerce portals on my DNN installation. How can I do that? I have tried SSL_Module unsuccessfully, what are you guys and gals doing for this?
 
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3/21/2007 2:27 AM
 

Each IIS website can only have 1 SSL certificate assigned to it. When a given DNN installation (which is a single IIS website) has multiple portals, the only way to do what you want is for all of the portals to be different zones of the same domain. e.g. portal1.domain.com, portal2.domain.com, etc.

If this is the case, then you can purchase a wildcard certificate (*.domain.com) and assign it to the web site. It will then be legitimate for all the portals of that domain.

Hope that makes sense.

Rob Ralston


Rob Ralston, SilverBullet Technologies LLC, www.silverbullettech.com
 
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3/25/2007 1:13 PM
 

whetstone wrote
This problem has been getting the best of me. How do I set it up so that more than one portal in the same DNN installation has their own SSL certificate? The rules state that you can have only one SSL per IP. But I want to have multiple ecommerce portals on my DNN installation. How can I do that? I have tried SSL_Module unsuccessfully, what are you guys and gals doing for this?

Actually, what the rules say is one IP address, one url, one owner per SSL certificate.  What I've had clients do is create multiple web sites in IIS, all with the same IP address, that all point to the same DNN installation.  Then in IIS you can install a separate certificate for each site.  Most people have had good luck doing this.

Wild card certificates can be used, but you need to be very careful to set things up correctly. 

No matter what you do, for this situation, I recommend you discuss it with your certificate vendor first to make sure that there will be not problems.

 

Tom


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3/25/2007 1:53 PM
 
photo_tom wrote

 

Actually, what the rules say is one IP address, one url, one owner per SSL certificate.  What I've had clients do is create multiple web sites in IIS, all with the same IP address, that all point to the same DNN installation.  Then in IIS you can install a separate certificate for each site.  Most people have had good luck doing this.

Tom

The only way that will work is if your server is configured for each IIS website to use a different port for SLL.  The default is 443, so if you wanted to add another website with it's own certificate then it would have to be on a different port. This is not optimal, but would be possible by specifying the port number on the url (e.g https://www.mydomain.com:465).

Just my opinion, but if your customers are doing e-commerce or some other type of application that requires SSL, they should not be combined together anyway.  This is just asking for trouble since they will be sharing the same web process, database, etc. 

To put it in the context of traditional Brick and Mortar:  Would you want to be the owner of a store that shared it's cash register with lots of other vendors that are unknown to you?  How about as a shopper?

 


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4/15/2007 9:56 PM
 

Relating to the problem of SSL securing multiple portals, SSLRedirect is an excellent add-on for SSL securing DNN web pages.  SSLRedirect provides the flexibility of using Regular Expressions to define which web pages should be SSL secured.  SSLRedirect also provides an output filtering feature which assist in eliminating the mixed content message sometimes received when flowing from HTTPS to HTTP web pages.  SSLRedirect works equally as well for native ASP.NET apps as for DNN apps.

Product brief can be reviewed by clicking on https://www.sanibellogic.com/SL/Products.aspx?Cat=DotNetNuke&PLong=00200

Product documentation can be downloaded by clicking on http://www.SanibelLogic.com/DownloadMe.aspx?uuid=7616144c-d302-403b-9291-bf4d21655c4b

SSLRedirect is also available on www.snowcovered.com ...just conduct a search for "SSLRedirect".

SSLRedirect has just been enhanced in support of DNN 4.5.0.

SSLRedirect works equally as well with single domain SSL Certificates or wildcard SSL Certificates.

Philip

 
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