On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Martha McConaghy wrote:

> Now, from what little I understand of certs, there can be only 1 per IP
> address.

formerly true, but not so any more for quite some time

see:
  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3546.txt
for the standard , called SNI -- Server Name Indication
(section 3.1 and following).  The RFC dates from June 2003 but
it took a few years to propigate through the system ;)

> So, if we get cert for the general use web server, it will apply to
> all vhosts on that server.  If we want individual certs for each vhost, we
> would have to supply an IP/NIC for each.  Do I have that correct?  If so,
> any ideas on how to get around that?

As I say, SNI gets around this

http://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/apache-secure-multiple-sites-sni.htm

in browsers that know how to use it.  Any recent browser will;
older browsers should be retired anyway as they almost
certainly have unpatched security issues

http://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/apache-multiple-ssl-certificates-using-sni.htm

[ No particular reason to prefer their doco, but a search on
Google put it forth first ]

We have done it with the StartCom SSL certs as well in the
past.  I recall editting the file from mod_ssl in
/etc/httpd/conf.d/ , rather than the vhost specification .conf
file , but this is local workflow related

-- Russ herrold

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