Friday, January 28, 2005 Hi Sadhaka,
Thanks for your reply! > There are different types of SSL certificates you can buy. The one that > lets you use multiple sites on one machine is much more expensive and > has some limitations. You will see right away if you go to a place > like: http://www.geotrust.com/web_security/ to buy the certificate. Would this be the "True BusinessID� Wildcard" certificate for $899? As listed on the web site, --------------------- Secure Multiple Sites with One Wildcard SSL Certificate If you're looking to secure multiple websites with one server certificate, True BusinessID� Wildcard is the easy, affordable solution. True BusinessID� Wildcard can secure multiple fully qualified domains that share the same base domain name if they share one physical server. For example, if you need to secure the following websites: o www.yourdomain.com o secure.yourdomain.com o product.yourdomain.com o info.yourdomain.com o download.yourdomain.com o anything.yourdomain.com and all of these websites are hosted on the same server box, you can purchase and install one Wildcard certificate issued to *.yourdomain.com to secure all these sites. The number of sub domains that you can use the wildcard certificate to secure is unlimited, for example, the same certificate can be used every time you add a new sub domain to yourdomain.com. If you need to span the wildcard certificate across multiple physical servers, you may purchase additional licenses. --------------------- Hmm, as you point out, it does have a pretty big restriction--you must use a "base" domain. So what do people do with multihoming and SSL? I'm pretty sure multihoming doesn't require that you use a base domain, so what happens in this case? I dug around a little more, and came across the following info: --------------------- http://www.itrus.com.cn/en/resource/datasheet/Securing%20Multiple%20Web%20Se rvers.pdf Name-Based Virtual Hosting: An ISP or Web Host provides each hosted customer with a unique domain name, such as customername.isp.com. If the same certificate is used for each domain name, browsers will indicate that the site domain name does not match the common name in the certificate. To solve this problem, a �wildcard� certificate of the form *.isp.com is required to properly serve the multi-hostname configuration without creating browser mismatch error messages. (VeriSign offers wildcard certificates on a case-by-case basis, and they are subject to certain additional licensing terms and conditions. For more information, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------- So it seems you can't have a certificate for multiple domains on the same server without using a "base" domain? This is probably a 4D issue (not Active4D), so I'll post this on the 4DNUG list and see if anyone there might have the answer to this... Again, thanks for your reply! Michael Larue _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
