[Box Backup] SSL enabling boxbackup.org

Chris Wilson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 2 Nov 2007 22:33:23 +0000 (GMT)


Hi James,

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, James O'Gorman wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:00:05PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>>  I'd be very happy to have both trac and SVN over SSL, thanks!
>
> OK, more decisions then :-)
>
> Given that I can only setup one SSL cert, I think I/we have to make a
> choice of which FQDN is registered for the cert. I was thinking along
> the lines of dev.boxbackup.org (and having http://.../trac and /svn)
> however I think Stuart's been hinting at using trac as the main site.
>
> So which way do we want to do it - make trac a "dev only" thing and
> register SSL to dev.bb.o or will trac be used as more than just a dev
> thing (given how much documentation is now on it) - bear in mind that we
> do now have the www code in svn so we can modify the main website if we
> wish.

I'm not sure about the wisdom of making Trac the main site just yet, but 
perhaps the most future-proof decision would be to use www.boxbackup.org 
as the certificate name, and make www.boxbackup.org, /trac and /svn 
accessible both over HTTP and HTTPS?

Cheers, Chris.
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