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SSL stands for "Secure Socket Layer" and you can use this feature to protect all data exchanged between your Web site and the client. Shared SSL is a means of secure Web server access without requiring users to purchase a digital key.
In this case, only one domain should have real SSL sertificate. We will call it Master SSL Domain. Other domains, which are set up to use Shared SSL will use its resources. To choose the Master SSL Domain from the list of domains which have SSL support enabled, go to the Server > Shared SSL page. In order to do this, set the Enable shared SSL checkbox and choose, which domain you want to be the Master SSL Domain. After you have defined the Master SSL Domain, you can give your clients ability to set up shared SSL links. To do it, go to the client's limits page and edit the Maximum number of shared SSL links field or set the Unlimited checkbox. After that, you or clients can enable Shared SSL support on per-domain basis. To make a domain use shared SSL, go to the Domain Administration page and press the Shared SSL button. The following screen will appear: To make the domain use Shared SSL, set the Enable Shared SSL checkbox. The documents, which will be accessible through Shared SSL should be placed into the httpsdocs folder of user's domain. Now you need to fill the Virtual directory name field. The virtual directory with the supplied name will be created at the Master SSL Domain. It will be used for accessing your site through SSL. Let us suppose domain user has domain named domain.hoster.com and Master SSL Domain is master_ssl_host.hoster.com. Now, to access user's site through the SSL, one needs to supply the following address: https://master_ssl_host.hoster.com/virtual_directory_name_you_supplied. Note that you cannot use domain address domain.hoster.com to access the site via SSL if you are using the shared SSL mode. If you set the Require SSL checkbox, the domain will be accessible via SSL only. |
