Brian

When you buy an SSL certificate, it will work for one domain only.   Say you
purchase the cert for www.mydomain.com  if you were to go to
https://www.mydomain.com all would be well.  If however, you went to
https://mydomain.com (without the www) you would get a security alert.  The
certs are very specific that way.

With that in mind, the problem with using SSL on vhosts is not a Sambar
problem, it is simply a problem with how the certificates work.

Here's how I run my vhosts off 1 SSL certificate using Sambar.  Just use
document mapping to map the directory of the vhost so it can be used with
your main domain.  if you host a site called host.com, just map it's
document directory so you can use it with your main domain like
https://www.mydomain.com/host.com/

That is pretty much how all the small mom and pop hosting companies do.

Paul Alger
Ironclad.net
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I have a couple of questions about SSL.

With Sambar 5.3, is it still the case that SSL cannot be run with vhost?
What are the alternatives?

I'm thinking, to avoid the need of a second IP, to let the router send https
traffic to a second server, set up exclusively for that purpose.

Or . . . to a second concurrently running service (and NIC?) on the same
server?

Thanks for your help!

Brian
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