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08/07/2006 08:40 p.m.

Daflea

Joined: 08/07/2006

2 publicaciones

General Question (United States)

Does DNN not support SSL logon.

I understand that your module allows for the logon page to be secure then the rest of the site will be normal. If you wanted the whole site to be SSL wouldnt you just set that up in IIS and configure your firewall to force SSL be redirecting HTTP requests to HTTPS.

I have never set up DNN to use SSL so am I just missing the point here and your module is required to prefor either solution.

Doug

09/07/2006 09:47 a.m.

Locopon

Joined: 02/05/2005

1265 publicaciones

Re: General Question (Bolivia)

SSL must be setup on the web server and SSL port is 443 that is different for normal HTTP (80)

But, SSL is not just a port change, it is a different protocol and your web server must have all the capabilities to use it. SSL needs a security certificate issued by a third (You can generate your own, but it will not be trusted and warming messages will appear to users)

After your server is set up to receive SSL requests and map those HTTPS request to valid virtual folders (Can be the same as SSL, or you can choose to use different), all you need is something that switches those ports when needed

If you firewall supports that, then you are OK, but if not, my modules (MMSecureLogin or DSLocalizator) can help you to do that.

There are different scenarios, like a portal using SSL only for authentication or sensitive information forms. Or other portal with all functionality based on SSL

Remember that SSL takes more bandwidth and time to serve requests, so your decision could be guided by the power of your resources like your Internet bandwidth and your CPU speed

My modules are there only to help people accomplishing tasks, Their use is not mandatory at all.

Locopon

10/07/2006 07:19 a.m.

Daflea

Joined: 08/07/2006

2 publicaciones

Re: General Question (United States)

Ok I just wanted to make sure. I belive I have read different issues where fellow DNN'ers have attempted SSL sites and ran into issues.

It seemed that from what I had read it was a issue with DNN, so I put SSL testing on the back burner. We are now working on a project that will require SSL and I was reresearching the topic.

We currently use IIS with ISA 2004, I also know that ISA allows for a host of differnt configurations. I will begin to tinker with this today or tommorow providing time permits.

Thanks for you input,

Doug

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