mongrel and ssl

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I currently have an app running using Mongrel, and need to add SSL to certain functions. I found this link (http://www.styledbits.com/ articles/2006/06/04/adding-ssl-to-your-rails-app-in-5-minutes) hunting through the archives, and was wondering if this is actually all that would be required (aside from getting a server certificate)?

Has anybody used this successfully, or have any other suggestions for how to accomplish it?

Thanks,

Simon

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that link seems to be down so not sure what that is all about but here is the tutorial I used to originally setup the whole shebang, ssl and all:

http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you/

assuming your running apache too...

Tim

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For the nginx crowd:

http://rubyjudo.com/2006/11/2/nginx-ssl-rails

and

http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/01/03/new-nginx-conf-with-optimizations

Cheers,

Walter

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You should also note that the ssl_requirement plugin from 37signals wraps up the code in that styelbits blog post nicely (not that there is a lot).

It’s repository be found here:

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/ssl_requirement/

Cheers,

Walter

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Using that repository, what else needs to be done to get SSL up and running using mongrel? Obtain a certificate, and then anything else? Can Mongrel do this without having Apache running in front of it?

Thanks again,

Simon