[ILUG] http/https

[Noirin Plunkett]

On 4/10/07, Colm MacCarthaigh <colm at stdlib.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:20:47AM +0100, Colm Buckley wrote:
> > >There is one important difference when hosting. https can not be used to
> > >serve multiple domains from the same IP address (ie. you need one IP
> > >address per domain) contrary to this when using http you can have many
> > >domains served from the same IP address.
> >
> >
> > This is not strictly true; you need one unique *port* per HTTPS service
>
> You're each wrong. There are now 3 mechanisms by which you can do
> virtual-host https;
>
>         1. Use a widlcard host record in the signed cert, and you
>            can virtual-host out say www.linux.ie and webmail.linux.ie
>            to different locations. Works just fine.

Except that the vhost config from the default vhost is used,
regardless of which vhost was actually requested, aiui. (I believe
this issue also exists when using the altCN trick.)

Noirin