I'm currently trying to setup a shared SSL certificated on my RaQ3 server.

The way I'm trying to do it is on my one SSL secured domain name, I'm making user accounts for each of my customers. These accounts then have a ln -s link to the web folder of the domain name site.

Has anyone tried this, or have a better way to use one SSL certificate on the server and allow all customers to have access to it?

Hi,

Yes, what we do is tell people their secure web space is at https://www.secuehog.co.uk/~username

we just set a user up with no admin access and they use it that way, they can ftp to it but thats it. Set the user up on the secure domain.

So when they need secure space they just go to the securehog domain.

We didnt want to buy a certificate for each person etc, its far cheaper this way, we spent enough on the Thawte 128-bit anyway!

I hope this helps.

namehog,

Thanks! That helps a great deal. It tells me that I'm on the right path.

It's kind of the same idea I'm using for customers who are not using our shopping cart program. Unfortinatly, it doesn't work for those customers who rely on cookies to get everything to work together.

Looks like I'm going to have to find a new shopping cart program at relys on a mySQL database on the server. To get around that.

you could try ihosting cart

or idomain cart and modify it to what you want to sell, ihosting cart would be better.

see how we use it on http://www.namehog.net it searches domains then adds to shopping carts etc.

that uses cookies and parses it from one domain name to the other.

Lanji, we do the symlink thing you questioned

we have a vsite with SSL (ssl.mydomain.com)
and clients can access either
- his complete web dir (/home/sites/site1/web)
- or a subdir of his webdir (/home/sites/site1/web/ssl/)
- or a specific dir in home (/home/sites/site1/ssl-web/)
with ssl.mydomain.com/client/

we just create the symlink within the webdir of the ssl vsite to the respective webdir/homedir/ssldir

main advantage is that they store their files within their directory (disk quota) and it doesn't require additional users or accounts

Thanks iplexx, this is exactly what I'm trying to do.

So I've created a symlink that links http://www.smarthostplan.com/southp to http://www.south-pass.com using the command:

ln -sn /home/sites/site17/web southpass

Unfortinatly all it produces is a 403 Forbidden error. What might be causing this problem?

Thanks for all of the help everyone!

Maybe check the owner of the symlink.

We do a chown of the symlink that it's owned by siteadmin user of the linked site.

I'm still getting a 403 error even though I've chowned it to root, admin, and the site's admin account.

Could it be my ln command is wrong?

change ownership to nobody.

I've got things mostly working with this method. I can view html files just fine, but my cgi scripts don't run, they just print all my code. Any ideas?

hi there, could I ask you detailed instructions (step by step) how to implement ssl cert sharing on raq4?
I still miss something in the procedure... so please....

- first create ssl.mydomain.com with ssl enabled
- next...I'll wait for instructions

thank you in advance