You can definitely have the cert for that URL be on both servers. Generate the CSR on one of them and install the cert. Then export the cert & private key as a .pfx (don't select the "remove after export") Import the .pfx on the other server.
The browser compares the URL being accessed with the common name of the certificate. So when you generate your request, make sure the common name is rdservices.nwea.org and you should be good. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] SSL and RDS servers Assume two RDS Gateway servers...URL to get to them is https://rdservices.nwea.org. Currently I am using a wildcard cert, but apparently due to how NWEA's wildcard cert is licensed I need to change it to a single host cert. Is there any way to have a cert for rdservices.nwea.org to be legit on two servers? I am fairly cert illiterate so I am not sure of the mechanism a browser uses to match SSL cert with particular host. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764
