Hello Juan,
I did it that way - with one small problem.
I've ordered the certificate using the hostname of our server and installed
this certificate. We serve different domains and IP addresses on this
server.
If a client does a request (using SSL) to the server he will get the usual
message ("security information") from his browser: it tells, that this is a
certificate from a trusted certification organisation, that the date is
correct; but it tells as well, that the name of the certificate is not the
same as the site name. But then everything works ok.
That is not really a problem - naturally it depends on your customers, if
they accept this certificate. We use SSL in an environment with servlets -
and there this security information is not shown to the user - so everything
goes right.
Hope that helps,
Ronald Ruzicka
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> Betreff: hostname and cert common name different?
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> My mod_ssl Apache is running on a machine with multiple
> names and IP addresses. The name returned by "hostname" is
> one of these, but the certificate's common name is that of
> one of the other host names.
>
> I'd like to serve SSL requests using the one certificate for
> all of the virtual names. Currently, Apache/mod_ssl refuse to
> serve under any name because the "hostname" name is not the
> same as the certificate's common name.
>
> Can I do what I want?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Juan
>
>
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