Date: 04 Mar 1998 09:34:51 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <chris@absinthe.i3inc.com> To: Andreas Klemm <aklemm@hightek.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apache-ssl: encryption for documents with certain filename extension Message-ID: <87n2f6o777.fsf@absinthe.i3inc.com> In-Reply-To: Andreas Klemm's message of Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:33:18 %2B0100 References: <19980304123318.55018@hightek.com>
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Andreas Klemm <aklemm@hightek.com> writes: > Is it possible, to teach apache-ssl to enable encryption, if > you enter a document with a certain name, let's say > > http://www.xxx.yyy/somepath/only_secure_access.htms > ^^^^ > Or is it only possible for a certain path ? > Or ... only for a URAL using https://.... You could probably do it with a redirect or rewrite rule which maps http://www/foo.htms to https://www/secure/foo.htms Hummm.. I don't see why you couldn't create a v-host for some URL which has "Security ON" (or is it "SSL ON"? I don't have access to my secure host right now, sorry). It might even be possible to set it up so that .htaccess insists on SSL in a dir. I got this to work with Stronghold's Apache+SSL so it required a client browser digital certificate for access to a dir with the right .htaccess. Stronghold does seem to have extended the security directives available over the Apache, last I looked, so this might not be available to you. Sorry this isn't definitive, but I've seen tricks like this used in Stronghold to redirect http: requests to a "localhost" virtual which ran the GUI web administrator... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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