Re: Question about SSL and Apache and a certificate error

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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Mike Soultanian <msoultan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Our campus has an SSL certificate for www.csulb.edu.  If you go to
> https://www.csulb.edu everything works peachy.
>
> Now, if you go to https://csulb.edu, you get an error.  I talked to our
> server admin and he said it's because our certificate is registered to
> www.csulb.edu and not csulb.edu.  He said only a wildcard certificate would
> fix this problem, but that something that the campus doesn't want to do for
> security and cost reasons.
>
> So, is it possible to set up a rewrite condition such that when someone
> tries to navigate to https://csulb.edu, it will automatically redirect the
> user to https://www.csulb.edu and avoid the certificate error?  I tried
> using the following in a .htaccess file and it didn't work (still got the
> error):

You can't do this -- you get that popup during the SSL handshake,
which has completed long before you can get redirected.


-- 
Eric Covener
covener@xxxxxxxxx

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