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. > > How do folks do SSL and virtual hosts? multiple IP addresses is not an > option for me. > This is how I do it: NameVirtualHost IP.AD.DR.ESS:443 <VirtualHost IP.AD.DR.ESS:443> SSLEngine On SSLCertificateFile path/to/domain.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile path/to/domain.key ServerName domain.tld ServerAdmin webmaster at domain.tld DocumentRoot /path/to/webroot ErrorLog /path/to/logs/errors.log CustomLog /path/to/logs/access.log combined </VirtualHost> Rick