[HCoop-Help] Serving SSL webpages

[Adam Chlipala]

Michael Shynar wrote:
> I am trying to allow secure alongside non-secure access to my website. 
> (http[s]://shmichael.com <http://shmichael.com>)
> However, following the examples, it seems that adding the 'SSL = 
> use_cert "/home/me/mycert.pem"' statement causes the non-secure 
> http://shmichael.com to direct to the HCOOP front page.
> I've tried reading through DomTool manuals but I find it hard to 
> understand the exact consequences of this statement.

You need to define separate virtual hosts for the SSL and non-SSL 
versions.  If you had a single non-SSL vhost and just added an SSL 
setting for it, then you will no longer have a non-SSL host.