Good afternoon everyone,

This is my first post here. I was wondering if someone could clear my mind about this.

I have a dedicated server with a single ip address assigned to it. I want to host couple of site which are hosted somewhere else and they have signed certificates. Now I want to host them all on this single server.

 

Is it possible to bound more than one cert to a single IP based apache server and host multiple virtual directories?

I did a research on line and found couple answers which are all confusing me.

 

One suggested that I need to get additional ip’s and assign different sites to it. (Not a very practical solution)

 

Other one says we can use the same cert and ip but have secondary host on different port number than default.  Something likes https://www.abc.com and https://www.def.com:444 and so on. But this will cause people a warning regarding the certificate error on second path, is that correct?

 

Some one suggested a wild card certificate but how can I do that since dedicated server name is a.dedicated.hostingcompany.com and I need to generate certificates covering *.abc.com and *.def.com

 

Would someone kindly clear my mind on this issue?