Symbolic Link Disables SSL Form Function?

[sduquette]

I just transferred my websites to DA & have 2 sites using SSL Certs. I'm using the "dreaded" FP forms until I can learn something else. All the FP forms worked perfectly using the symbolic link for all my websites, including the 2 with SSL.

What's strange is - the forms (using SSL) were functioning fine until two days ago. Now when the forms are submitted I get:
FrontPage Error.
User: please report details to this site's webmaster.
Webmaster: please see the server's system log for more details.

I'm using Apache 1.3.4.1 & have tried disabling & reinstalling the FP extensions & recreating the symbolic link, however the problem still exists.

The old server I used required uploading twice, both to http & https. I really liked the fact that I no longer had to do this. However, I have to get these websites functioning before tomorrow morning & I'll do that again if I have to.

I realize everyone hates FP & MS doesn't support it. But for the moment - it's all I know. I've searched this forum for two days & tried everything I've read - to no avail. The only thing I have not done is reinstall the SSL Certs.

Can anyone tell me how I might work around this? Or if I have to use an https folder, where do I put it & will DA recognize it for the SSL htm's?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. These are medical websites & the data must be transmitted securely.
Thanks.

 

[floyd]

Webmaster: please see the server's system log for more details.

What are the details?

Why are you using a symbolic link? What does it link to?

 

[sduquette]

The server error log states:
[Sun Jun 22 14:11:18 2008] [error] [client 87.15.55.75] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): *

I was using the symbolic link so I could put both http docs & https docs in the domains/clientdomainname/public_html folder so they could both share the same images folder.

On Domain Setup in DA it says:
Use a symbolic link from private_html to public_html - allows for same data in http and https

When I use http://www.clientdomainname.com/myformpage.htm all forms work perfectly (however the data transmitted is unsecure). The data submitted on the form gets emailed properly & the confirmation page displays.

When I use https://www.clientdomainname.com/myformpage.htm (so the data trasmitted will be secure) that's when I get the error. No data gets submitted, no confirmations page, just this error.

The symbolic link works fine bringing up the https form page (with all the shared images) however it won't process the forms data.

I tried not using the symbolic link at all & selected (in DA Domain Setup): Use a directory named private_html

I was going to try & use the public_html for unsecure pages & the private_html for the SSL secure pages (and create a new images folder inside) but when I bring up FP to publish - I don't see a private_html folder to publish to.

Any ideas? Thanks.