On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:30 AM, José Francisco Álvarez Aguilar <pepinsoftw...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Yes, www1.example.com, www2.example.com and wwwsecure.example.com all > resolve to the same IP. > So, due to your explanation, I can't have different behaviour for this 3 > virtualhosts without using different certificates or without using SNI. > But there's one thing I don't understand: if we use "virtualhost", that is > because we would like to "emulate" that there are three (or more) hosts. So > if we use real hosts with different IPs... it would work... so the > "virtualhost" directive doesn't do what it supposed it should do: emulate > three different hosts... am I wrong? > > Thank you very much.
It "works" just fine, you are just not understanding what is necessary for it to work. VirtualHost uses the Host header supplied in the request to best determine the website to route the request to. In order to read headers in an SSL request you need to decrypt the encrypted request. In order to decrypt the request, you need to know what key was used to encrypt the request, which depends upon which host name the request was sent to, Apache cannot work this out, and so uses the configuration from the default vhost for that IP/port combo. If this certificate matches, then the request works, and it can use the Host header to route the request to the appropriate vhost. Therefore, if you can setup your vhosts so they share the same SSL certificates - either using wildcard certificates, or using subjectAltName certificates - then they can share the same IP. If you can't do this, then they can't share the same IP. This is not a limitation of Apache. Cheers Tom If you can setup your site. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
