Re-2: On-Rev subdomain (main domain hosted elsewhere)

[Joe F.]

Sorry to be so late catching up here.

So, here's a scenario:
A page on another server gets its credit card payment form (.irev  
page) from a secure sub-domain in my on-rev space.
The secure sub-domain is the same domain as the originating website,  
the DNS there being authoritative.

So:
www.website.com - lives on cheap, wonky ISP
secure.website.com -  lives on cool on-rev ISP.

Questions:
- Which works best, CNAME or A records?
Some ISPs allow fiddling with one or both; others allow neither.

- Where would the certificate live?
My guess is that would be the secure sub-domain server. (could be wrong)
It might be dependent on whether the ISP that hosts the DNS allows  
either A or CNAME changes, and secure connections to the "third party".

I'm not dealing with any of this stuff yet but I will have to soon,  
and I suppose I'm anticipating a problem.
If anyone can book their experiences here I'm sure it will come in  
handy one day when someone Googles "wonky ISP". (ie. me)

Cheers,
Joe F.

On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:36 AM, stephen barncard wrote:

> On-Rev MySQL as well as most MySQL installations are secured by IP,  
> but you
> can use the wildcard "%" instead for any IP.
> This true at On-Rev.
> -------------------------
> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco
> http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev
>
>
> 2010/1/15 Joe F. <joef1 at mac.com>
>
>> This is very interesting discussion to me and I'm sure it will be  
>> something
>> that comes up for a lot of other on-rev users.
>> So, if possible, I hope one of you can follow up with a report on  
>> which
>> method is better/easier, or has any problems in actual use.
>>
>> I haven't toyed with it on on-rev yet, but I know that other ISPs  
>> limit
>> remote access to things like MySQL based on IP addresses.
>> This kind of thing would be a problem for running a separate secure  
>> on-rev
>> subdomain for transactions from another server, so if there's a  
>> definitive
>> way to do it I think it might be useful to get the Rev folk to  
>> publish it to
>> the website.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe F.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2010, at 4:54 PM, David Bovill wrote:
>>
>> 2010/1/10 <runrev260805 at m-r-d.de>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> a cname is an alias for an other domain.
>>>> That means it points directly to your on-rev domain.
>>>> e.g. shop.yourdomain.com would point directly  to yourname.on- 
>>>> rev.com
>>>> The same pages would be shown.
>>>>
>>>> With an a-record you can use this subdomain as a real domain on the
>>>> on-rev
>>>> system.
>>>> You could have different folders for shop.yourdomain.com and
>>>> yourname.on-rev.com
>>>> So it would be possible to show different content for each domain.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> OK yes - but why not just set up say:
>>>
>>> - http://subdomain.david.on-rev.com/
>>>
>>> And then point the C name record as:
>>>
>>> - subdomain.mydomain.com  =>  subdomain.david.on-rev.com ?
>>>
>>> I'd still have different folders on on-rev - but are you saying  
>>> that I'd
>>> have different root folders and that
>>> http://subdomain.david.on-rev.com/would then not ALSO point to
>>> subdomain.david.on-rev.com ? Still a bit confused - thanks for you
>>> patience!
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