Re: using ssl on part of a website

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:08:43PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
>> Hi guys, I'm having real trouble figuring out how to do this.
>>
>> I've got a wiki running ikiwiki and I'd like to get the log-in/editing
>> portion out of clear text. the obvious thing seems to be to use SSL,
>> but I don't want to ssl the whole site, just the part accessed through
>> the cgi scripts that take logins and edit stuff. Can someone give me
>> some pointers?
>>
>
> I've also used, with success, mod_auth_digest, which I believe gets me
> secure access to the cgi-bin/ but does not actually log me in to
> ikiwiki so that changelogs only show an ip address, not a user. bleh.
>
> somewhere there is some magic incantation to get me secured when
> accessing the cgi scripts and open otherwise.
>
> A
>

There is a pretty good newbie walk through at the ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4466

Sam

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