SSL and Virtual hosts

Andrej Marjan amarjan-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 9 15:25:47 UTC 2008


Jamon Camisso wrote:
> 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?
>>     
>
> mod_gnutls is a terrific solution to that very problem, think most major
> browsers support it, i.e. IE7 (not 6), firefox 2, safari etc.
>
> I've used it and there's a slight increase in cpu usage with apache, but
> that's it. pretty stable as far as i could tell.
>   

I think that's only IE7 on Vista+, however. Depending on target 
audience, that could be an important caveat: No version of IE on XP or 
older can to TLS virtual hosting.
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