Sorry to be so late catching up here.
So, here's a scenario:
A page on another server gets its credit card payment form (.irev
page) from a secure sub-domain in my on-rev space.
The secure sub-domain is the same domain as the originating website,
the DNS there being authoritative.
So:
www.website.com - lives on cheap, wonky ISP
secure.website.com - lives on cool on-rev ISP.
Questions:
- Which works best, CNAME or A records?
Some ISPs allow fiddling with one or both; others allow neither.
- Where would the certificate live?
My guess is that would be the secure sub-domain server. (could be wrong)
It might be dependent on whether the ISP that hosts the DNS allows
either A or CNAME changes, and secure connections to the "third party".
I'm not dealing with any of this stuff yet but I will have to soon,
and I suppose I'm anticipating a problem.
If anyone can book their experiences here I'm sure it will come in
handy one day when someone Googles "wonky ISP". (ie. me)
Cheers,
Joe F.
On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:36 AM, stephen barncard wrote:
On-Rev MySQL as well as most MySQL installations are secured by IP,
but you
can use the wildcard "%" instead for any IP.
This true at On-Rev.
-------------------------
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev
2010/1/15 Joe F. <[email protected]>
This is very interesting discussion to me and I'm sure it will be
something
that comes up for a lot of other on-rev users.
So, if possible, I hope one of you can follow up with a report on
which
method is better/easier, or has any problems in actual use.
I haven't toyed with it on on-rev yet, but I know that other ISPs
limit
remote access to things like MySQL based on IP addresses.
This kind of thing would be a problem for running a separate secure
on-rev
subdomain for transactions from another server, so if there's a
definitive
way to do it I think it might be useful to get the Rev folk to
publish it to
the website.
Thanks,
Joe F.
On Jan 10, 2010, at 4:54 PM, David Bovill wrote:
2010/1/10 <[email protected]>
Hi,
a cname is an alias for an other domain.
That means it points directly to your on-rev domain.
e.g. shop.yourdomain.com would point directly to yourname.on-
rev.com
The same pages would be shown.
With an a-record you can use this subdomain as a real domain on the
on-rev
system.
You could have different folders for shop.yourdomain.com and
yourname.on-rev.com
So it would be possible to show different content for each domain.
OK yes - but why not just set up say:
- http://subdomain.david.on-rev.com/
And then point the C name record as:
- subdomain.mydomain.com => subdomain.david.on-rev.com ?
I'd still have different folders on on-rev - but are you saying
that I'd
have different root folders and that
http://subdomain.david.on-rev.com/would then not ALSO point to
subdomain.david.on-rev.com ? Still a bit confused - thanks for you
patience!
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