custom httpd.conf file

[wdatkinson]

One of my customers purchased a chained ssl cert. After STF'ing, I found the following post for getting it to work:

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=3030&highlight=intermediate+cert

The only issue now is that whe someone makes a change in DA, the user's httpd.conf file is over-written with DA's, thus wiping out those changes.

So I opened DA and attempted to use the customization option for the httpd file. I added the proper line in there and it adds it to both the standard virtual host and the ssl one.

Unforunately there was already a reference in the DA generated httpd.conf file to another chained cert. And inserted my line prior to that one, so I'm guessing that when apache parsing the config file, my custom line was being over-written by the DA generated one.

So to get him back up and running, I've once again edited his httpd.conf file via SSH, but I know that as soon as someone does something in DA we'll be back to broken again.

Any suggestions on getting this customized option to work properly?

 

[nobaloney]

The instructions in that thread seem to refer to a serverwide cert.

For your client there's a link in the control panel s/he can click on to install the chain cert.

Jeff

 

[wdatkinson]

The same method used to install a standard SSL cert, correct? We tried that with the chain, and it wouldn't work, which prompted use to track down that forum post.

I'm not an SSL expert, but from what I can see, a chained cert has a different config for apache than a standard cert.

 

[nobaloney]

The config is built into apache to work with both kinds of certs. We've installed both kinds of certs into DA.

Jeff