In article <133721.39495.qm at web121405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, S Mathias <smathias1972 at yahoo.com> wrote: > http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 > > "# Set up SSL protection on your website." > > is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, when i want to > use ssl on my domain? Not exactly. An SSL certificate is not tied to an IP address, but to a hostname. If you only have a single SSL site on the server, it doesn't matter what the IP address is, or even whether it is a dynamic address registered with a dunamic DNS provider. It will still work. The thing you CAN'T do is to have name-based virtual hosting with multiple domains on a single IP address, with more than one of them using SSL. Name-based virtual hosting relies on the HTTP Host: header to identify which virtual host is being accessed. But under SSL, the headers are not sent until the encrypted SSL channel has been set up. So the only way the server can know which certificate to use is by the IP address on which the request is recieved. So multiple SSL sites on a single box MUST each have their own IP address. Hope this helps! > thank you > > happy Christmas! :) Happy Christmas to you too! Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org