Shared SSL is a means of securing the access to your site with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) without purchasing your own SSL certificate. Web sites that employ shared SSL are, in fact, using the certificate shared by another domain. The domain that shares its SSL certificate with others is called Master SSL Domain.
Note. In order to use shared SSL, the Master SSL Domain should be set by your server administrator.
To use SSL certificate of the Master SSL Domain, enabling shared SSL use:
For example, let us suppose that you have a domain named mydomain.com, Master SSL Domain is defined as master_ssl_domain.com, and the virtual directory name you supplied is my_virtual_dir
. In this case, to access your site through SSL, you need to use the following address: https://master_ssl_domain.com/my_virtual_dir.
Note. You cannot use your domain name (e.g., mydomain.com) to access your site via SSL if you are using shared SSL.
httpdocs
or httpsdocs
as a target directory.To stop using SSL certificate of the Master SSL Domain, disabling shared SSL use: