You are using a shared SSL certificate (courtesy of webfaction); That is, the SSL certificate is issued to a URI other than yours. Depending on browser, and it's security settings it will react in different ways (for example, you can have some browsers permanently remember the exception you make about this particular mis-match).
This has nothing to do with web2py - when you are ready to deploy, you simply need to shop around, and decide on buying your own SSL cert. for your site. Have fun! Regards, -Yarko On Apr 28, 3:24 am, aure <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thanks for your help! > > @Jonathan: yes, if I disable https I can access the welcome web2py app > without any problem. I just cannot login into the admin.. > > @Thadeus, yes I have told firefox to accept the SSL certificate > anyway, and I can then access the app. But I would not want that to be > necessary for people visiting the site... Is there a way to have > visitor access the site without https and use a secure connection only > for admin login? Well, I believe I would publish my apps manually > anyway (in one of the ways you described), so I probably do not really > need the admin to work... but an answer would still be valuable if, > let us say, I would need some pages on my site to be accessed via > https... > > @Annet, for now I am just trying to use the default webfaction domain > I got on registration... I subscribed to a Shared 1 service, but I > don't seem to have a dedicated IP addresse. Is this a problem? > > Kind regards, > Aurelien > > On 27 avr, 17:01, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2010, at 7:32 AM, aure wrote: > > > > As I had started to do it your way before you even mentioned it > > > (created 2 websites...), I decided to try your solution. > > > Unfortunately, when I try to access the admin website I get this in > > > Firefox: > > > > ------ > > > Secure Connection Failed > > > > admin.aurerua.webfactional.com uses an invalid security certificate. > > > > The certificate is only valid for the following names: > > > *.webfaction.com , webfaction.com > > > > (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) > > > ------ > > > > Do you remember getting this as well when you did your setup? I do not > > > know how to solve this... > > > I haven't been following this thead, but... > > > Can you access it via aurerua.webfactional.com? (That is, leave off the > > admin.) Both names resolve to the same IP, and the cert ought to work for > > the shorter address. > > > -- > > Subscription settings:http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/subscribe?hl=en
