On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:06:56PM +1300, James Collier wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Are there any docs for setting this up?

It isn't any different than setting up with seperate certs, just use the
same cert in each vhost.

> Not as such - I cooked the site up as a one-off, with the feeling that 
> much of it came under the dirty hack classification (particularly as 
> almost every mod-ssl document contains wording to the effect of "Don't 
> ever ever ever under any circumstances try to use NBVHs with mod-ssl")
> 
One problem being that it isn't fully supported by all browsers, and that
some people might argue that this is less secure. AFAICT only thawte sells
wildcard certs.

> There's nothing particularly innovative or devious here - and I'm in the 
> rare position of working with a smallish closed user group whose members 
> are willing and competent to do some basic browser certificate management.
> 
> But I suppose if people feel this set-up is legitimate, useful and 
> non-trivial I ought to make time to write up a quick How-to and/or an 
> expurgated config file. Is there a suitable Apache cookbook where such 
> recipes are collected?
> 
The documentation would be the obvious place IMHO - see
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/ - if you get the time to write
something, I can probably be convinced to commit it for the 2.x docs.

vh

Mads Toftum
-- 
`Darn it, who spiked my coffee with water?!' - lwall

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