Christoph Maser wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 11:36 +0200 schrieb Niki Kovacs:
Hi,
I successfully managed to use SSL on a local webserver for testing purposes, following the section "Using SSL" in the Chapter "Using Apache" of the "Definitive Guide to CentOS". Now I wonder: how can I use SSL with virtual hosts?
You can't. At least not with name based virtual hosts and classic SSL. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html#vhosts.
That is outdated information. There are at least two ways to use virtual hosts with SSL on Apache.
1) Use a wildcard cert. You can use *.somedomain certs to serve multiple SSL domains on a single IP so long as they fit in the *.somedomain pattern.
2) Use the SNI extension. http://hvera.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/apache-ssl-with-virtual-hosts-using-sn...
Note, however, that SNI does not work with older version of MSIE.