First Time With Ssl And Certificates

[iphonogasm]

yes but it keeps redirecting correct?

 

How to fix this as it keeps loading the default page as the redirect page? hence the loop...

[ICTCity]

I think you have a redirection in REDIRECT (from IIS) but you also have a script running in some page that redirects too. Right? If yes, delete one of them.

[iphonogasm]

i dont know whats going on, it almost seems like IIS is not restating properly like its takes a while to restart using iisreset

 

anyway it should work now can you test?

 

Thanks!

[ICTCity]

Same as before. Stop the IIS and start. If you can, restart the server. Check the event viewer for errors

[iphonogasm]

yes i am running iisrestart cmd

 

i had the script destination wrong, set to https://megahosting.co.nz so it was loading the index.html again and looping..

 

set to https://megahosting.co.nz/index.php

 

can you try now lol....

 

Thanks!

[ICTCity]

You don't understand how to redirect :P Now the redirection points to:

https://megahosting.co.nz/index.phpmegahosting.co.nz/

 

You are really close... really close...

[iphonogasm]

lol but its working for me....locally and on my iphone (3G)

[ICTCity]

mhhh not for me :P

[iphonogasm]

cache?

 

im real concious about cache and clear everytime before testing???

 

my iphone is on a public network so not sure why its not working for you!

[ICTCity]

Mhhh ok now it's redirecting on the right website but once loaded I have "internal error" mhhh strange.

[iphonogasm]

lol really, does it load the index.php at all?

 

or is it when you click a link

 

the about page doesnt work yet, and reseller hosting and SSL certificates still no page!

 

Thanks again for your time!

[ICTCity]

Mhhhh now everything's fine... odd

[iphonogasm]

haha, hopefully it stays that way!

[ICTCity]

just another thing...

 

Set up a reminder somewhere to renew the certificate... maybe one month before it expires so you have time to re-buy another one and nobody notice anything :). Well, I did this but unfortunatly I did so many time POSTPONE on outlook and one day people started to call me asking why there was a "certificate error". I have ordered a new cert but in some way the file was corrupted so I passed almost 5 hours answering questions about cert error. Finally when everything was resolved outlook give me a pop-up: REMINDER: Renew SSL Cert!

 

What a great day ^^

[iphonogasm]

just another thing...

 

Set up a reminder somewhere to renew the certificate... maybe one month before it expires so you have time to re-buy another one and nobody notice anything :). Well, I did this but unfortunatly I did so many time POSTPONE on outlook and one day people started to call me asking why there was a "certificate error". I have ordered a new cert but in some way the file was corrupted so I passed almost 5 hours answering questions about cert error. Finally when everything was resolved outlook give me a pop-up: REMINDER: Renew SSL Cert!

 

What a great day ^^

 

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

[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?