Re: [LIH] multiple domains hosting on one IP with multiple SSLCertificates

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Alok G. Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vivek Sharma wrote:
>
>> We have around 62 domains to be HTTPS(SSL) hosted on one domain. We got
>> issued server certificates for all the 62 domains. But the problem
>> arises in using only one IP for hosting all the domains.
>
> See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html#vhosts for the
> theory. It is painful to work around this. I did manage to get 2 ssl
> vhosts working but I would not advise going down that path if you have
> 62 domains. It's a maintenance issue.
>
> I used Rich Bowen's[1] recipe, just so you know.

Just to inform that recipe uses "non-standard" ports (443, 444, 445,
etc) for each SSL-vhost. That means;

1) the user has to enter https://domain:44x/  (easily done, but
annoying to the user);
2) or you have to create "landing redirect" on http://domain/asdf that
redirects the user to https://domain:44x/asdf (also easily done with
apache redirect module)

Cheers,
Soren

-- 
Soren Atmakuri Davidsen <[email protected]>, stud.it, Nellore, India

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