[ic] Shared SSL Certificate

Kevin Walsh interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jun 11 09:22:00 2003


Andy Mayer [andy@andymayer.net] wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 22:27, Joshua M. McClain wrote:
> > I, for example, am setting up multiple catalogs, each maintained by the
> > owner of the virtually-hosted domain -- all on one server.  I can see no
> > way to share one SSL cert for the entire server, unless someone can shed
> > some light on this.
> >
> It seems that ssl on apache doesn't allow multiple ssl certs running off
> the same ip address. I believe the way round this is to run ip based
> virtualservers on apache, and have a different ip address assigned to
> each ssl cert.
> 
> Can anybody confirm/deny this?
> 
The web server (Apache in this case) is irrelevant.  It's SSL that
doesn't support name-based virtual hosting.  Each HTTPS host will need
its own IP address, as you said.

-- 
   _/   _/  _/_/_/_/  _/    _/  _/_/_/  _/    _/
  _/_/_/   _/_/      _/    _/    _/    _/_/  _/   K e v i n   W a l s h
 _/ _/    _/          _/ _/     _/    _/  _/_/    kevin@cursor.biz
_/   _/  _/_/_/_/      _/    _/_/_/  _/    _/