using shared ssl certificate and redirecting after log in

[Adam]

Hi,

I want to make use of the free shared SSL certificate that my server has. My log in page is situated at mail.domain.com. After people have entered their username/pass I want it to redirect to http://server.xssl.net/domain.com/mail and then carry on as normal but under a secure page.

the mail subdomain is just an alias of the mail folder. I'm not sure where to look and what to change.

Thanks

Ad

[brightstar]

Hello

Are you wanting to do this:

- Login via https://mail.domain.com/mail
- Then redirect to http://mail.domain.com/mail for example

or

- Login via http://mail.domain.com/mail
- Then redirect to https://mail.domain.com/mail

or

- Login via https://mail.domain.com/mail and stay under a secure connection

If its the first two i dont know but will look into it, if it is the 3rd then all you do is goto that secure link and as far as i can see everything works under secured.

[flash]

sessions are unique to the domain. so you cannot change the domain in the middle of a session. hence, you cannot login using your domain name and then redirect to your host's shared server ssl (which is usually by host server name) and expect to keep the session alive.

[Adam]

ok! So I just need to setup a redirect in the .htaccess to redirect the logon page to the SSL route.

Thanks

Ad