"Becker" <ben.RemoveThis@benbecker.net> wrote in message
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> I have not gotten a straight answer anywhere and I keep seeing conflicting
> answers.
>
> I have one web server with 1 IP. I want to host multiple SSL enabled
sites.
Not gonna happen. 1 IP for 1 virtual web with a certificate. (I think you
can put more than one certificate on a virtual web though...) The portion
of the traffic the web server uses to distinguish one virtual web from
another (the HTTP headers) is encrypted, therefore it has to respond to all
traffic on that IP and port, therefore you can only use one virtual web on
that IP if it has SSL.
So stop asking or rephrasing just because you don't like the answer. You
may want to spend a few hours on Google or read a book or something because
you lack basic information needed to run a web server.
> I have found resources across the net that suggest that an SSL certificate
> is for an IP and a port.
Well, most people use port 443 as it is the default for the HTTPS protocol.
Anything else and you are not likely to get users to connect to it because
they have to specify the port number in the URL.
Others indicate it is specific to an IP only.
> Which is it?
ONE IP. You can modify the port, but its ONE port. Thus, ONE IP and ONE
port on a virtual web. The IP can be used for no other virtual web.
>
> I've not been able to successfully get SelfSSL to work with multiple ports
> on a single IP. Anyone else doing this?
You won't get it to work, because it doesn't. You should re-examine the
reasons you think it should work, because they are wrong.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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