[CentOS] Self-signed certificates

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Mon Jan 23 23:23:08 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 18:16 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> > Hmmm. I'll give that a try.  Not really interested in the error about being
> > 'self-signed' (issuing authority) but just want the name to be right and the
> > security to be there.
> >
> > Will try and let you know.
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/name-based.html
> 
> Note the line near the top that says "Name-based virtual hosting
> cannot be used with SSL secure servers because of the nature of the
> SSL protocol." And also
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html#vhosts
> 
> The first just says you can't. the second provides a more detailed
> reason. The way I gave you is really the only way to accomplish what
> you're doing with mod_ssl etc.
> 

I spent much time around trying to figure out a way to do this ... only
way I found ... do it by IP ... each SSL cert needs to be on a different
IP
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