Multiple SSL certificates

Dave Cheney dave at cheney.net
Tue Oct 21 13:36:03 MSD 2008


On 21/10/2008, at 8:04 PM, Thomas wrote:

> Should I actually concatenate my 2 certificates into one file? Would
> that thing work?

Nope, and even if it did you would need some way of indicating which  
certificate goes with which host, and your back to square one.

> I cannot have separate IP for each certificate, as I will be hosting
> many different websites that each use different certificates. I could
> use a wildcard certificate and do a redirection such as
> site1.mainsite.com, but I find it's an ugly solution.

If you have

mysite.com

and

myothersite.net

this won't work

If you want to have

site1.mysite.com

and

site2.mysite.com

then a wildcard will help.

Cheers

Dave







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