Re: [cobalt-users] Desperatly seeking help for SSL server set up.

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm confused by your terminology.  Are you doing name-based hosting 
(sharing one IP#) or ip-based hosting (separate IP# for each site)?

You are aware, I take it that you CANNOT do SSL for multiple sites sharing 
one IP.

To do SSL for multiple sites, you MUST do ip-based hosting.

One work around would be to point all your clients websites to ONE site 
with a SSL.

For example, you could set up SSL on your one IP#, as for example 
<secure.yourdomain.com>, and set up each of your customers to use YOUR 
certificate, for example: <secure.yourdomain.com/theirsubdirectory>.

Plenty of disadvantages, not the least of which is the contracts with both 
Verisign and Thawte seem to disallow this.  Another disadvantage is that 
you'd have to update the sites; you don't want to give all your customers 
access to each other's secure directories <frown>.

Jeff

At 05:35 PM 2/4/00 -0500, you wrote:

> We are doing named based IP hosting, trying to conbfigure SSL for a Cobalt 
> Rac2 Server for multible sites can anyone please walk us trough these 
> steps for seting it up.  The derections given to us by Colbalt are not 
> functioning properly or not enough details