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    Using SSL Certificate Along with HTTP pages

    I am building a HIPAA based software which requires using an SSL certificate. The problem is, when activated the ssl certificate for the server I can no longer use http requests which means if people go to mydomian.com they get an error.

    I need the home page to be accessible without it using https because people don't write that in.

    I found this article: Alpha Wiki Link

    Which references this code (edited with my info):

    Code:
    <%A5
	dim StandardUrl as c = "http://www.plasmapro.org"
	dim SslUrl as c = "https://www.plasmapro.org"
	if left(Request.SCRIPT_NAME,17) = "/account"
	    if .not. ServerSetting.SSL_Enabled
	        Response.Redirect(SslUrl + Request.SCRIPT_NAME,.t.)
	    end if
	else
	    if ServerSetting.SSL_Enabled
	        Response.Redirect(StandardUrl + Request.SCRIPT_NAME,.t.)
	    end if
	end if
%>
    But when the page loads, it does not get encrypted. Also when I try to load an https page I get an error.

    My question is what's the combination to make this work?

    What do my server settings have to be and is that code really all that I need?

    Thanks so much! I appreciate it!
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    #2
    Re: Using SSL Certificate Along with HTTP pages

    That wiki link doesn't do what you want. Your site needs to be 100% SSL but you want to allow users to not have to type in the full https each time.

    Instead of following the instructions on the link, just set your Alpha web app server to be fully SSL on port 443. But then also fire up any other web server, IIS or Apache or even Alpha Five on a different instance, set to port 80. Be sure that your webroot for that port 80 application is different than the one for SSL. Then place a single page named index.html (or index.a5w if Alpha) with HTML shown below. That will instantly redirect anyone who enters the site on port 80 over to the SSL site.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>

    <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=https://mydomain.com" />.

    </HEAD>
    <BODY></BODY>
    </HTML>
    Steve Wood
    See my profile on IADN

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      #3
      Re: Using SSL Certificate Along with HTTP pages

      Hi Steve,

      Thank you very much for writing back so quickly!! I appreciate it! I have forwarded this info to my client who manages the server and hopefully will get it working without a problem.

      This is kind of crazy that Alpha doesn't have a way to handle it. Who wants a site that wont load the home page?!

      I'm surprised the alpha posted solution doesn't work, it sounds like the perfect fix, but didn't work at all.

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        #4
        Re: Using SSL Certificate Along with HTTP pages

        I'd like to offer a modification to Steve's suggestion. While what he posted will work, the meta refresh can be less reliable than having the server send a 301 or 302 redirect. This requires a page with code though, not just static HTML.

        From an index.a5w page, you would do this with
        Code:
        <%a5 Response.Redirect("https://" + Request.Host) %>
        You could also configure the App Server for port 80 to use this page for your 404 handler. Then when someone requests http://yoursite/somepath/somepage, they will still get to the SSL site.

        The code in the wiki is addressing a different problem and assumes that you already have 2 Alpha instances running, one for standard HTTP and

        Lenny Forziati
        Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
        Alpha Software Corporation

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          #5
          Re: Using SSL Certificate Along with HTTP pages

          Also, the wiki does address your question separately: How to provide both HTTP and SSL services for a single application by using multiple Application Server configuration files

          Lenny Forziati
          Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
          Alpha Software Corporation

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            #6
            Re: Using SSL Certificate Along with HTTP pages

            Hi Lenny,

            I was following this thread and went back to look at our server running V12 with SSL on port 443 as I didn't recall having a problem when we switched to SSL. So, I didn't find any redirect code at all to redirect to http. It seems to get routed over to the https without any issues.

            There are firewall rules for both 443 and port 80. Can be that this is being handled by Alpha or the firewall?

            Thanks,
            Tom

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