Re: Question regarding web hosting ip addressing

[Scott Francis <darkuncle () darkuncle net>]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:25:25AM -0400, kramert () mlrnoc navy mil said:
> Odd.  I've run multiple "https:" sites on one IP.  The browser
> will complain about the certificate but you can always have

And therein lies the problem. :) The last web host work I did had a few
bottom-lines rules, and one of them was do not confuse the end-users, because
that tends to either create support calls (whee) or send them to competitors.

> a different certificate for each site while using one IP address.
> (Correct me if I'm wrong!)

According to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html (thanks
Gerald), name-based hosting cannot be used with SSL due to the nature of the
SSL protocol.

> - Tim

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