David Harris wrote:
>
> > Has anyone looked into implementing this? We currently support
> > thousands and thousands of virtual hosts and have (literally)
> > megabytes of configruation files with complex IfDefine and
> > Include directives that take Apache minutes to process, so moving
> > to mod_virtualhost will be the biggest lifesaver for us, however,
> > how would be the best way to support SSL? We don't want to have to
> > use a old-style 1.3.6 VirtualHost entry for SSL enabled sites.
> >
> > mod_virtualhost documentation for Apache 1.3.7 is available at
> > http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html.
> >
> > Suggestions would be great! Thanks.
>
> When the mass virtual hosting patch was first contributed to Apache, I started
> a discussion of how to implement SSL mass virtual hosting on the
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. This thread started with my message entitled "SSL
> mass-vhosting" on 6/11/99 with message-id
> <001d01beb408$6dbb92e0$0500a8c0@delf>. In that thread, I tossed out a few ideas
> for how one might go about implementing mass virtual hosting for mod_ssl.
I've checked through your ideas and it seems to me that they could be
made to work with Apache-SSL (and hence, probably, mod_ssl), so long as
the keys don't have passphrases.
The point of the preload of keys/certs its to get passphrases while you
still have a tty, nothing else.
Cheers,
Ben.
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