install multiple SSL sites on one VPS

networking

forum:Yifan 11 years, 11 months ago

You can install multiple SSL sites on one VPS and one IP. It goes well with chrome and and firefox, but not with IE (default setting). Under IE, the the second site's SSL will be mismatched.

I tried to fix this error by installing extra IPs. Each IP for different domain name. Still doesn't work.

Then I edit the conf file and added each IP to each domain name's port 443. It works!

Instead of "listen :443;", use ""listen 198.58.101.98:443;" Like this

listen 198.58.100.75:443;

server_name firstdomain.com;

listen 198.58.101.98:443;

server_name seconddomain.com;

I use nginx.

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forum:Vance 11 years, 11 months ago

~~@Yifan:~~

It goes well with chrome and and firefox, but not with IE (default setting).
This is the result of varying support for Server Name Indication (SNI).

forum:Guspaz 11 years, 11 months ago

It'll be a few years yet until SNI is safe to use. 2014-2015, probably, since WinXP EOLs in 2014.

If it was just IE6, it'd be safe to use now (IE6's marketshare is well under 1% in most countries), but sadly SNI isn't supported at all by IE on WinXP, regardless of version.