Re: how to use ssl to secure subdomains of a cakephp app

Thanks Matt.

I spoke to poLK in #cakephp quite some time after my posting.

She (i think) mentioned the same idea about using wildcard cert.

Thanks for the tip.

On Dec 25, 9:17 am, Matt Murphy <mattyh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In order to get to user1.domain.com, your user would have to log in.  Am I
> right in thinking that is on the list of encrypted events?  And certainly
> there must be a few others like user management functions?  Ok, shutting up
> now.
>
> Unless you have a wildcart cert, you'll have to use method a.  Obviously,
> the wildcard cert solution would be way sexier (enabling method b), but
> those things are expensive.
>
> Matt
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> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Zeu5 <kimc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there,
>
> > my cakephp app allows users to create subdomains.
>
> > for eg,
>
> > user1 creates subdomain1.example.com and
> > user2 creates subdomain2.example.com and so on...
>
> > all subdomains are pointing to the same app folder.
>
> > if a new subdomain is created, i merely keep track of it by inserting
> > new record in subdomains table. no new copies of `app` folder are
> > created.
>
> > i have a action common in all subdomains called orders/checkout
>
> > i want to ssl secure this page.
>
> > Do I
>
> > a)
> > create a separate subdomain such that all visitors to the different
> > subdomains are redirected to it?
>
> > eg, visitors at subdomain1.example.com or subdomain2.example.com will
> > ALL be directed tohttps://secure.example.com/orders/checkoutwhen
> > they run the orders/checkout action
>
> > OR
>
> > b)
>
> > all the visitors at subdomain1.example.com are directed to
> >https://subdomain1.example.com/orders/checkout
>
> > all the visitors at subdomain2.example.com are directed to
> >https://subdomain2.example.com/orders/checkout
>
> > and so on..
>
> > if it is a) how do i achieve that?
>
> > if it is b) how do i achieve that?
>
> > is there an alternative to a) and b)? if so, how do i achieve that?
>
> > Thank you .
>
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