SSL Certificate works for folders?
Posted by Energizer Bunny, 01-13-2008, 06:10 AM Hi, Say i have domain zzzzz.com and have some folders say a, b and c would ssl if installed for main domain zzzzz.com work for https://zzzzz.com/a and so on ? or would wildcard ssl be required for that ? And what if that /a folder is actually a subdomain, but since you can access subdomains via url/folder instead of folder.url would ssl work on it using url/folder option instead of subdomain url ?
Posted by Dolbz, 01-13-2008, 07:08 AM I'm not an expert but I'm 99.9% sure that it'll work for the whole of the base domain i.e. zzzzz.com/anything but you'll need a wildcard SSL for subdomain.zzzzz.com as that's another zone in DNS terms.
Posted by tweakservers, 01-13-2008, 12:35 PM What Dolbz said is true. SSL is based by the domain name or hostname. However, please becareful that some SSL certificate have differences in www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com. If you submit your CSR with www.yourdomain.com, it will not work if you browse https://yourdomain.com, only https://www.yourdomain.com will work. If you have a concern on this, take a look at DigiCert Plus which will work both way.
Posted by Energizer Bunny, 01-13-2008, 02:34 PM Hmm, i do not have to worry about www part cause on almost all my sites i use .htaccess to redirect to www url. I guess i will give comodos postive ssl a shot and see how it goes.
Posted by stealthiss, 01-13-2008, 03:55 PM The sub folders will be covered under the SSL. You will need a wildcard SSL for additional domains and subdomains.
Posted by blessen, 01-13-2008, 04:55 PM Hope this link will be of some help http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...folder-586099/
Posted by Energizer Bunny, 01-13-2008, 06:50 PM Ok got the Positive SSL certificate the free one for 30 days to see if it works or not. It installed and everything took only few minutes. But strange thing is that when i go to https://www.mydomain.com/ it shows that content was partially secured with a cross across the padlock. Basically "connection partially encrypted" appears when you click the crossed out padlock. Now if i go to https://www.mydomain.com/folder/ the cross across the padlock disappears and no such message is shown that content/connection partially encrypted. Any idea why that would happen ?
Posted by david510, 01-14-2008, 04:16 AM Does your main index page has href links that calls a http:// link?
Posted by Gharibe, 01-14-2008, 05:53 AM you can setup your ssl on your https://domain.com then https://domain.com/folder will also have ssl they both are also accessible without https
Posted by Energizer Bunny, 01-14-2008, 02:38 PM Yes why ? IS that the reason?
Posted by david510, 01-14-2008, 09:39 PM Yes, It should be the reason. Take a page from the web root without any such links and see if there is any error.
Posted by Energizer Bunny, 01-14-2008, 09:59 PM I believe you too, and taking off links will be hard, as they are everywhere omg its a jungle of links
Posted by BillBrown, 01-15-2008, 12:02 PM Keep in mind that you can have link from your page to other sites (other hosts or domains). What breaks the padlock is when content loaded on your site is pulled in from other hosts or domains. Because your SSL certificate is signed only for your host / domain, not theirs, doing so breaks the secure guarantee that the SSL provides. Also, my spoon is too big.