[Zope] SSL over Multiple Zope/Plone sites?

[David Pratt]

I think this should be doable for single cert with multiple domains. 
Setup you exising ip with one domain (ie. mysecure_domain.com). Get the 
cert on this domain.

Setup a rewrite rule in apache for port 443 for mysecure_domain.com

You could use a self signed cert to experiment. When user logs in 
request login page goes to

site1 - http://domain_one.com:
You would need to make your login go to you login page
https://mysecure_domain/site1/login

site2 - http://domain_two.com:
https://mysecure_domain/site2/login

Once logged in goes to whatever you have in your vhm
http://www.domain_one.com    /site1 in vhm
http://www.domain_two.com    /site2 in vhm

in vhm you'd have:
www.domain_one.com           /site1
www.mysecure_domain/site1    /site1
www.domain_two.com           /site2
www.mysecure_domain/site2    /site2

The problem here will be the session since when you login secure and 
switch back to the regular site, your ssl session will expire 
automatically but you'll need to pass it to nonssl to stay alive when 
you go back to nonssl. I think a solution might be to store it, go to 
nonssl and then retreive it when you do your redirect back to non-ssl. I 
have not tried this yet. Alternatively you could always stay in ssl from 
that point forward. Any technique from someone on this would be helpful 
since I am also interested in what possibilities there might be.

This should not give you a problem with the cert because identity on 
cert would match the ip. I think otherwise you are in a situation where 
you will need a dedicated server setup to have one ip per site and then 
you can just do a single rewrite per ip or use chained ssl if you have 
sub domains that you want to tie together under a single cert over one 
or more ips on one or more servers.

Regards,
David