First Time With Ssl And Certificates

[ICTCity]

Haha that sounds like fun. Thanks for the advice.

 

just quickly while were on the topic of IIS i have 2 quick questions

 

I want to add a binding to a directory within a site? Is this possible

 

And, ....forgot the second, will update when i remember lol

 

Mhhh not really... when you have a problem, and you have a resolution but you must wait for a 3rd part... it's... well you know... not funny ^^

 

What you mean by binding to a directory? you can BIND a website which resides in a directory. Do you want to bind another website which is in the same directory of another website? like this: mysite.mydomain.com which is in C:\www\mysite\ and anothersite.mydomain.com which is in C:\www\mysite\anothersite\ ?

 

Right now I can't read inside human mind... but I'm working (hard) on this. I will update too when I can do this... remotely... wireless...

[iphonogasm]

ok i have the site megahosting....

 

within that site is a directory forums, for the community.

 

so....megahosting.co.nz/forums/

 

But i want to add the bind for a DNS record i host

 

http://forums.megahosting.co.nz to navigate to the directory within my site megahosting

 

another example

 

MegaHosting....

> Images

> Forums - add binding forums.megahosting.co.nz A record

> Admin

> css

>> index.php

>> contact.php

>> etc etc.php

 

Right now i have the forums setup as a seperate site.

 

Thanks

[ICTCity]

DNS records can only convert to IP. That means if you insert an A record forum.megahosting.co.nz it must point to your public IP but this (now) will point to home page.

 

What you can do is to create another zone or a redirect that points to the folder FORUMS.

 

Usually it works like this:

 

You have the folder somewhere called megahosting.co.nz then you have a folder called www (so: www.megahosting.co.nz) and then you can create others folders like FORUMS and so on.

 

This article is well explained and it should be your case:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/web-sites-windows-2003.html

[iphonogasm]

but currently i have a website with the binding set as forums.megahosting.co.nz

 

and it loads the correct website

[ICTCity]

so what's the problem?

[iphonogasm]

well, that bining is currently working on another website, a seperate website not my "megahosting" website.

 

So, i want that binding "forums.megahosting.co.nz" to display the contents of forum, which is a directory within my megahosting website (which has binding https://megahosting.co.nz and http). You get it? I will make a diagram if you dont.

 

PS. can you test the loading time of my site. Is it performing well?

 

Thanks!

[ICTCity]

I think I get it.

 

but you manage both sites from IIS or the forum is working on ANOTHER server?

[iphonogasm]

no both sites on the same server hosted by IIS.

 

However at the moment, the megahosting forums, and megahosting are two different websites.

 

This is what i have

 

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and this is what i want....

 

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Thanks!

[ICTCity]

The link I gave you before should explain exactly what you must do :)

 

regarding speed... well normal... not impressive but in some way I'm on the other part of the world ahahaha

[iphonogasm]

one more quick question...

 

Im still a bit confused as to which is my private key and the actual certificate.

 

The certificate is the .cer or .crt file

 

Whcih is the private key file?

 

My mail server specifically asks for my private key files and certificate file in order to allow connections via SSL

 

Thanks!

 

My mail server is closing port 995 when i assign the cert. to it. The service stops listening when i tick use ssl with the cert. selected!

[ICTCity]

the crt should be the key and cer the certificate. Usually the public key is a pub or key file.

[iphonogasm]

Ok,

 

ive come accross another question/issue

 

In IIS, its only letting me assign one cert to a site.

 

Im setting up RDWEB with a self-signed cert so i can add application sharing in windows 7, but whenever i add the self-signed cert to the rdweb site, it changes the megahosting site certificate to the self-signed one. And visa versa.

 

Im gettin an error saying there is already a binding for HTTPS..

 

Thanks!

 

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PS: This is with different host names configured for each binding!

[ICTCity]

I'm not sure (I will check on Monday), but I think you cannot do this on the same IP. Actually one IP is listening on 443, so the same IP cannot listen on 443 but for a different website (unless you use virtual host).

 

A cert is assigned to a hostname so if you change the assignment, it's CHANGED not duplicated or copied or whatever.

 

 

I'm quite sure about this...

[iphonogasm]

ok ill try it on a different NIC,(with different ip) see what happens!

 

Thanks!