On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 03:31:47PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:12:48PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > > > > > > 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? > > > > There is a pretty good newbie walk through at the ubuntu forum: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4466 > > <shudder> wading through those can be tough, but it got me some useful > information. mostly that my rewrite looks to be proper, and in fact it > does work to a point. > > Once i navigate to the cgi script, it redirects to > https://site.org/ikiwiki.cgi...., and presents me with the login > screen, but after entering correct information and clicking "login" it > returns an error page 'Error: "do" parameter missing' so something is > lost in the translation there... > problem restated: ikiwiki includes a login system, but that puts passwords in clear text. This is a problem when on public networks, especially wireless. solution: don't mess with mod-rewrite or anything like that. create two stanzas in your httpd.conf by whatever method you use. 1) stanza <VirtualHost *:80>... and one <VirtualHost *:443>... set up the cgi stuff in the second stanza. then reconfigure the ikiwiki.setup file: url => "http://example.com/path/to/wiki"; cgiurl => "https://example.com/path/to/wiki/ikiwiki.cgi"; reubild the wiki and you're done. that looks to me to be the best way to use SSL with ikiwiki. A
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