Enabling SSL for a subdomain in IIS

Question

I recently bought SSL for my website and want to create a section within the site in the form of https://secure.example.com/member/upgrade.aspx . However, I am having a hard time solving this issue since currently my website URL rewrite prohibits any subdomain and the user is logged out if he or she gets transferred to the above link.

I have search online and found some good information such as dynamically create the url without actually creating a subdomain in IIS.

Questions :

1. What steps are needed to achieve the objective above?
2. Should I have bought the wildcard certificate instead of one for a specific subdomain?

Thank you.

Answer 1

One option would be ignoring that url pattern for rewrite purposes or ignoring the url if the protocol is HTTPS. That said, I would take a slightly different approach here and just put the entire site behind SSL -- rewriting all the queries to the other protocol works and google is now giving rankings bumps to HTTPS so there are good business reasons to make the switch. You are already taking the pain of getting SSL involved at all -- the dedicated IP and certficate cost the same if you use them on a single page or all the pages, might as well take advantage of it and ease your management burden in the same motion.