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Currently my site supports regular payment options (User is taken to Payment Gateway/PG website). Now I'm trying to implement "seamless" PG integration. I need SSL for this. I'm having a dedicated server with 5 static IPs from Hostgator/HG.

options:

  1. I take SSL for www.my_domain.com. According to HG, I need to change IP of main site as current IP is not really dedicated as it is being shared by cpanel etc. So They need to bind another dedicated IP to main domain for SSL to work. This would required DNS change for main website and hence cause few hours downtime (which is ok).

  2. I've noticed that most of the e-commerce websites are using subdomains like secure.my_domain.com for ssl/https. This sounds like a better approach. But I've got few doubts in this case:

a) Would I need to re-register with existing PGs (Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net) if I switch to subdomain? Re-registering is not an option for me.

b) Would DNS change be required for www.my_domain.com in this case. This confusion arose because of following reply from HG : "If the sub domain secure.my_domain.com is added to an existing cPanel it will use the IP for that cPanel so as long as it is a Dedicated IP that will be fine. If secure.my_domain.com gets setup as its own cPanel it will need to be assigned to a Dedicated IP which would have a DNS change involved.".

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  • would Serverfault be better place for this?
    – Shatiz
    Commented Sep 19, 2012 at 7:18
  • It's borderline. I don't think serverfault would cover payment gateways, whereas we do, so I'm happy for it to stay here.
    – paulmorriss
    Commented Sep 19, 2012 at 14:05
  • Do we get answers on this forum?
    – Shatiz
    Commented Sep 20, 2012 at 16:26
  • Yes, only 729 out of 10,000 questions haven't been given an upvoted answer. Often it takes more than 24 hours though. If you don't get an answer after a week I suggest you delete the question here and re-ask it on serverfault.com. (We don't like the same question on two sites.)
    – paulmorriss
    Commented Sep 20, 2012 at 16:29

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a) No you definitely don't have to re-register with another PGs. But you might have to configure your PGs to recon your new URL. Ex: Paypal IPN requires you to give a URL so they can send payment info back to you. You might have to change that IF you want paypal to call a Secure URL. Otherwise, you don't have to change anything. Another Ex: is authorize.net recognizes payment page URL, so you have to login to your authorize.net account to update the URL setting. (i am not sure if that's still the case, I haven't use authorize.net for a long time).

b) I never use HG, but basically you just need to add secure.yourdomain.com to your account and ask support staff to assign a static IP to it. Then your SSL would work correctly. Make sure you point secure.yourdomain.com to the same folder as your yourdomain.com.

Everything else should work at that point.

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