I just got a Network Solutions SSL cert and enabled SSL on my NetworkSolutions DotNetNuke portal and now I'm in an infinite loop of redirects.
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While I was waiting on the Website Restore feature to finish I did some research.

It turns out this is common to DotNetNuke, requiring some workarounds on the part of the hosting provider:

http://www.purpleant.com/Blogs/BrianSwanso...-redirects.aspx
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums.../2/Default.aspx

Anyone been able to get SSL working at least for the login portion of using a portal?

Our proxy SSL doesn't allow server-side variables to detect HTTPS (secure). All server-side coding will always detect HTTP (non-secure), and for programs that attempt to redirect non-secure connections (http://) to a secure connection (https://) will result in an infinite loop and server error after 30 seconds.

The only ways around this is to
assume the connection is secure by making all the links to the sensitive pages https, or

use a client-side program (like javascript) to detect if it's secure and redirect if it's not. The coding below will do just that. Just modify it to redirect to the correct secure domain and add it into the HTML of any sensitive pages.



I hope this is helpful,

>>I hope this is helpful,
Maybe!
How does one make the login page in dot net nuke https only?

I would recommend contacting .NetNuke support. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Okay. Done! Another problem now.
I can't get to the DotNetNuke database to make needed adjustments. I can't see the IP address of the database instance to attach to it to make changes. When I create my own instance, the IP, username and password are known. How do I find this information for the DotNetNuke database Network Solutions set up for me?

I would recommend checking in the DotNetNuke Configuration file.

Thank you,

are you sure its the dotnetnuke file? there don't seem to be any ip addresses in there
The web.config file defines a SiteSqlServer. What IP address does "Server=VW2K3SQL3A" relate too?

<add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Server=VW2K3SQL3A;Database=********;uid=********;pwd=********;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />