On October 2, 2001 08:32 pm, Robert Mazur wrote: > I might have confused the issue. My goal is to have one ip address > listening for two http: sites and one https: site. I think I read that you > can host multiple sites using VH, but only one can be https: Did I > possibly misunderstand that?
You did not misunderstand. > Basically....I have always hosted 3 sites with one ip address using VH. > Now one of them needs SSL for credit cards. I am pretty sure I can change > one to use SSL, and still have all three on the same ip address, no? It is > likely I have misled myself....please let me know if so! Yes, this will work because SSL listens on a different port. You can have as many virtual hosts as you want with your server listening on port 80 and only hostname listening on 443. > > > (servername.somedomain.com:443) RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) > > > `www.mydomain.com' does NOT match server name!? > > > This is true, but the server name does not have to be the domain name > > > of the site, does it? The CN must match the URL that the person types into the web browser. e.g. for my site, https://www.arcticbears.com/manage.cgi, the part "www.arcticbears.com" must exactly match the CN. > > > DETAIL: > > > After a LONG battle getting "apachectl startssl" to launch (including > > > it asking me for the password) without errors, There is info in the mod_ssl docs for how to automate this so that the pw is automatically entered. > > > I can not get a secured page to come up. Instead I get a Page Not > > > Found, and "DNS server not found" error > > > in the browser. No errors on the server. Are you using IE? This sounds like a typical M$ style un-informative error. Is your server listening on port 443? Can you port-scan it? Or give us the public IP so we can try? > > > To make my httpd.conf, I took the resulting "httpd.conf.original" and > > > modified it for my virtual hosting and such. Bascially, I copied the Do you have a conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf file? Or a conf/ssl/ssl.default-vhost.conf file? That's what we use... btw, what is your version of apache and mod_ssl? > > > p.s. I should be able to just call a secured page like this, right?: > > > https://www.mydomain.com/welcome.html Yes, that should work. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
