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

2010-12-25 Thread Zeu5
Hi Ryan, happy holidays! I have 3 questions. 2 are follow ups on your excellent replies. > The problem with this is figuring out how to transfer session data that > you've already started at subdomainx.example.com to secure.example.com. You > could set the session domain to example.com; that

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

2010-12-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Dec 24, 2010, at 18:06, Zeu5 wrote: > >> 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 to https://secure.example.com/ord

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

2010-12-24 Thread Zeu5
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 wrote: > In order to get to user1.domain.com, your user would have to log in.  Am I > right in thinki

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

2010-12-24 Thread Matt Murphy
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. Obvio

how to use ssl to secure subdomains of a cakephp app

2010-12-24 Thread Zeu5
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 i