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Thread: SSL for control panel login
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01-02-2008, 12:08 PM #1Web Hosting Evangelist
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SSL for control panel login
I am trying to provide control panel logins over SSL. So, in case the login url will be at https://host.domain.com:2083/, can I/should I purchase a cert for http://host.domain.com:2083/?
In many ways, this would be more cumbersome for customers than www.domain.com/cpanel, as I am using cPanel and could set it to redirect to secure connections and use a self-signed cert, but the browser warning would always crop up and I am looking to avoid that.
Is this a sensible move?
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01-03-2008, 03:35 AM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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If you purchase the SSL cert for host.domain.com and redirect www,domain.com/cpanel to https://host.domain.com:2083/ you shouldn't get any browser warnings. As long as your SSL cert is valid for host.domain.com I haven't seen any browsers complain about the alternate port.
Until TLS support improves this is probably the easiest way to run multiple SSL sites on a single IP address.
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01-03-2008, 03:47 AM #3Web Hosting Evangelist
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This sounds like a good idea. Thanks, I am going to try it out.