SSL with Rails
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im just addressing some security aspects that we have to deal with rails web application.. A common implementation which have been using almost every site in the world today is SSL.. So could anyone give me some clues to integrate ssl with rails applications using webrick, mongrel or any other well known web servers…. |
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Amila, If you’re using Mongrel and Apache’s mod_proxy_balancer then you can implement SSL at the Apache level. Here’s an old howto that should still prove useful. |
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Amila, Unless you’re just messing around you, won’t want to use webrick as it’s rarely, if ever, mentioned in discussions of “production” apps. Nginx is fairly common and is pretty simple to setup with SSL. Here’s the general process for creating a self-signed certificate on Ubuntu. The process shouldn’t be too different on most linux variants. You can replace the steps for generating the cert with the steps from a number of ssl certificate sellers. GoDaddy has a pretty comprehensive list of servers and the instructions for generating the CSR needed to obtain a production-ready certificate for each. Mongrel doesn’t much care about SSL either way when setup behind a proxy/load balancer like Apache or Nginx. Jason |
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We had gone through this same experience at AisleTen with one of our projects were only part of the needs to be SSL (ie: after login) and so you have to have forms post to the SSL site and then stay on the SSL site. Micah wrote a quick post about it on our blog here: http://blog.aisleten.com/2008/06/02/beware-of-ssl_requirement/. Hope it helps. |
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