SSL and Virtual hosts

Fraser Campbell fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 9 04:31:47 UTC 2008


On Monday 08 September 2008 16:58:07 William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

> I need to set up a secure website.  I want to do this via a virtual
> host, because I one have one web server.  Of course, I can't do SSL
> on the same IP as another website (as I understand it) without seeing a
> nag box about certificate/URL mismatch.
>
> So, here's the question:  is there an easy way to bind two IPs to one
> machine, or some clever trick to get more than one SSL site on the same
> IP?

It sounds like this is your first SSL site so there's no problem.  Host the 
SSL site on the same IP as the non-SSL site(s).  There is only a problem if 
you're hosting multiple SSL sites.

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Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>
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