[wilson765]

Hi,

I need to set up a secure area for a client I am hosting on my XR2 reseller account.

I have purchased my own certificate from you rather than using your shared one. (£30 a year)

What I need to know is how do I set the certificate to just cover my shopping cart area and not the whole site?

Also Cpanel seems to suggest I will need a unique IP address to use this certificate is this correct?

Hope you can help as I'm struggling here.

Thanks

Steve

[Kieran]

Yes, you need a unique IP address for use with a certificate. Depending on what domain you placed on your certificate depends on how you can setup your cart to use it. If you setup a subdomain and placed that on the certificate then you can place your cart on sub.domain.com. If not, then you need to place your cart in a directory of your main site domain.com/cart and then use .htaccess to mean that anyone using this directory will be forced to use https.

Hope this helps you

[wilson765]

Thanks Kieran,

Yes that helps.

Maybe I should use xilo shared ssl certificate that comes with my reseller account.

Any ideas how I might set this up? There was a thread on this a while ago but no answer. Maybe I should contact Xilo direct on this.

Steve

[Kieran]

Sorry, didn't notice your edit.

A shared certificate means that you will not recieve 100% validity in the browsers check. To show what I mean by this visit https://www.yourdomain.tld:2087/ you will note what while you can go secure with WHM using your domain you recieve a warning that the certificate isn't specifically designed for your domain.

While a shared certificate would work in establishing a secure connection to your shopping cart, your customers may be put off by seeing warnings when they have to enter personal/financial details.

It is certainly worth considering this when deciding if to get your own IP/certificate or not.

This is untested, but you should be able to use shared SSL on your account by using the following URL:-
https://servername.xxxx.net/~username

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Kieran

A shared certificate means that you will not recieve 100% validity in the browsers check. To show what I mean by this visit https://www.yourdomain.tld:2087/ you will note what while you can go secure with WHM using your domain you recieve a warning that the certificate isn't specifically designed for your domain.

While a shared certificate would work in establishing a secure connection to your shopping cart, your customers may be put off by seeing warnings when they have to enter personal/financial details.

Not always the case however. The shared cert we provide will not show any errors if used correctly.

This is untested, but you should be able to use shared SSL on your account by using the following URL:-
https://servername.xxxx.net/~username

It's similar to that but not quite right Please raise a ticket to be given the URL.

Also - if you could not post our reseller domain in public so that we are able to mask it as much as possible.

Matt

[wilson765]

Thanks again Kieran you have been more than helpful over this.

I have raised a ticket with support as Matt has suggested and will wait to receive their help.

I really appreciate your help on this as this is the first one I've set up and it's all a bit alien to me.

Steve

[Kieran]

Thanks for the info Matt; as I said in my post my information was untested and was only correct for systems I have worked with in the past - it's interesting to know there are ways of doing shared certs without warnings, I may well be contacting you about that one

As for the reseller domain, apologies for posting that - I will try and remember to keep it to the reseller forum in the future. It's the kind of situation where PMs would be more appropriate (especially speaking to another reseller), but unfortunately they are not enabled on the forums.