Ssl with subdomains

Rails
1

Hi,

I am writing an application that uses subdomains for the different
customers that access it. For example company1.mydomain.com and
company2.mydomain.com.

I need to have portions of the application under ssl. I have attempted
different ways of doing Including the following code in my
application.rb:

def redirect_to_ssl

 @cont = controller_name

 @act = action_name

 if !request.subdomains.first.nil?
   @subdomain = request.subdomains.first + '.'
 else
   @subdomain = ''
 end

 redirect_to

“https://#{@subdomain}dnbformation.com/#{@cont}/#{@act}/#{params[:id]}”
unless (@request.ssl? or local_request?)

end

This, however does not work, and i get an error stating that there are
too many redirects.

What is the best way of accomplishing this. If need be I will make the
entire site ssl, but I can’t even figure out how to do that in the
apache.conf because of the subdomains.

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

Ryan

2

SSL certificates are typically tied to a specific subdomain. A single
‘Wildcard’ certificate can handle multiple subdomains, but they’re also
considerably more expensive.

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?se=%2B&ci=1026

Your easiest option is probably to use a wildcard and make the whole
site SSL encrypted. I’ve never used wildcards though, so I can’t
personally vouch for their ease of use.

3

Thanks for the reply!

I have purchased a wild card domain, the issue is though, have either
apache or my app redirecting to an ssl connection on certain
actions/pages.

Thanks!