Re: How do I configure HTTPS on System i v6r1?

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simple configuration change.  Since each will run on their own server on
the port 80 server have it always reroute to the SSL server.

That is, if you always want them to use SSL.


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Tom Hightower <tomh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I like the idea of using https for the whole site, it would make
> configuration a lot easier, though there are A LOT of macro changes that
> would need to be made. But it brings some questions:
>
> - suppose someone enters http://idocket.com as the URL; how do I get that
> to
> auto-route to https://idocket.com ?
> -- would that be a change in our DNS host config setting, or a web server
> config directive change?
>
> TomH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rich Loeber
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:59 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: How do I configure HTTPS on System i v6r1?
>
>    Tom,
>
>    I ran into this a little while ago and slogged through it myself.  I
> ended
>    up posting a blog about the process that you might find helpful:
>    [1]http://www.kisco.com/ibm-i-security-tips/?p=3
>
>    Rich Loeber - @richloeber
>    Kisco Information Systems
>    [2]http://www.kisco.com
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    On 12/13/2012 11:34 AM, Tom Hightower wrote:
>
>  I have the following website, hosted on the System i:
>    [3]http://idocket.com
>
>  Clicking Register now on that homepage takes you to:
>    [4]https://secure.idocket.com/idocket/register.asp
>
>  As you can infer from the .asp, the https is hosted on a Windows server on
> our internal network.
>
>  Management wants to move the https from the Windows server onto our System
> I, and I'm all in on that. But it's been quite a long time (10 years?) and
> many OS releases since I've done that.  Can someone point me to a guide
> that
> walks me thru getting that up and going?
>
>  Thanks,
>  TomH
>
> References
>
>    Visible links
>    1. http://www.kisco.com/ibm-i-security-tips/?p=3
>    2. http://www.kisco.com/
>    3. http://idocket.com/
>    4. https://secure.idocket.com/idocket/register.asp
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