[CentOS] ssl and NameVirtualHost

mouss mouss at netoyen.net
Wed Apr 9 18:52:35 UTC 2008


Tony Schreiner wrote:
> I recently aquired a Verisign SSL certificate for my web server on 
> Centos 4, with apache 2.0.59 from centosplus.
>
> It however doesn't seem to be working the way I've set it up, browsers 
> connect but are told the certiticate is not recognized. Showing more 
> info, the information looks  correct.
>
> I think it has probably to do with the fact that I'm using the 
> certificate on a virtual named host, and I wonder If any body has 
> experience doing this? A few places in the apache documentation 
> suggest that SSL cannot be used with name based virtual hosting, but I 
> don't if that means, not at all, or not with multiple named hosts.
>
> I have multiple NameVirtualHost on port 80, but will only plan to use 
> one of the names on port 443.
>
> The start of the section in my ssl.conf goes like this:
>
>
> <VirtualHost _default_:443>
>     ServerName nameprotected.domain.edu:443
>     ServerAdmin me at domain.edu
>     DocumentRoot /var/www/docs/nameprotected
>
>
> nameprotected.domain.edu  is a DNS CNAME to the actual host.

the ServerName should match the name in the certificate.
>
> How do folks do SSL and virtual hosts? multiple IP addresses is not an 
> option for me.





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